Crom00 wrote:
At that time I was in Newark NJ and they had and still have a massive Portuguese and Brazilian community. The Brazilians loved the Amiga becuase it was ok to bring it back to Brazil as the A500 was under a certain allocated value of $300 (I think) that you can take into Brazil and get through customs OK. Dudes would take the A500, a girlfriend would take a hard drive attachment, another pall would take the ram, floppy, etc. Pretty funny.
Hehehe. I know some guys who did that at that time. The right value is US$500. Some people even took the risk to hand carry things over that limit and bet they would not be stoped at customs. Quite cool.
Paraguai is near enough for a (long) bus trip, so it was the main source of Amigas and Macs to Brasil.
Commodore started producing A1200's, A600's and some CD32 in the last days using a company called PCI to do it. That happend in the short time between dropping the law and Commodore's death
My 1084S is "made in Brasil" at PCI. I've used my A1200 with a television for some time.
