Wow - $150 was CHEAP, even in '89, but I remember people ditching their A1000's quickly after the 500. I forgot to ask something else important... where did you get the machine from? A store or private individual?
And yeah, RAM was expensive back then, but $189 for 2mb sounds really reasonable compared to just a couple years before that. Expansion was ALWAYS (still is obviously) expensive for the A1000. Thanks for sharing Crom! Always neat to hear about comparative uses back in the day.