XPost: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.sinclair   
   From: samgillettnospam@diespammermsn.com   
      
   "Robert Newson" wrote ...   
      
   > Sam Gillett wrote:   
   >   
   > ...   
   >> As a promotional gimmick, Commodore offered a $100 rebate to anyone   
   >> offering any computer or game console as a trade in when buying a C64.   
   >   
   > Acorn did something similar with one of their machines (the Archimedes   
   > possibly?) giving a set trade-in price regardless of state of traded   
   > computer...the company I was working for at the time was getting all sorts   
   > of machines for the trade-in, including a ZX80; they were just smashed up   
   > and binned.  [I only found out about the ZX80 after it had been destroyed   
   > 8-( ]   
      
   Except for the few machines that the engineering department was using as   
   doorstops, Commodore donated the rest to charity.  I would guess that those   
   in working condition were sold through the charities outlet stores, and the   
   rest deposited in landfills to be smashed to pieces by the tracks on   
   bulldozers.   
   --   
   Best regards,   
      
   Sam Gillett   
      
   Change is inevitable,   
   except from vending machines!   
      
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