Amiga 3000UX first impressions

[Cindy Walters]

In article <157 at tcr.UUCP> news at tcr.UUCP (John B. Sobernheim) writes:
>
>   I have seen the light and it is called /usr/amiga/bin/fractal
>
>	We received a 3000UX the other day.  As far as I know this is
>a saleable unit (I am a dealer), one of the first.  The following are my
>impressions of the machine so far.  
>
Thank you for all the detailed information.  I work on UNIX systems and
I have been contemplating the purchase of a home system that would allow
me to continue to work in a UNIX environment.  I have an old (actually,
two ;-) Commodore 64 system with floppy disk drive and color monitor, 
and I'm naturally wondering if any of this equipment can be used with an
Amiga UX - or if I have to completely replace with new equipment.  Any
ideas?  Is there any market for used Commodore 64 equipment (what about
for parts?) ?  

>	The Amiga 3000UX that we received is configured with 9 MB's of
>RAM, 1MB of Chip and 8MB's of Fast (using 1mbitx4 zips).  It has a
>[...]
>single page saying that this is a BETA release of the software and 
>manuals and that the user is eligible for a free upgrade to version 1.0
>of the software and manuals (For a $50.00 media replacement/shipping and
>handling charge :-).  The version of Unix in this A3000UX was 
>BETA 3j.  An errata page listing known bugs and problems was also 
>
Any indication about when the 'production' release can be expected?

You also mentioned that it came with spreadsheet software.  I would
be very interested in knowing more about this - is it a LOTUS 1-2-3
look-alike?  Is there good documentation?  Does it work?

Thanks :-)

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