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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Viscorp to buy AT!
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 19:00:06 -0700
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >Kevin W. Davidson wrote:
- >>
- >> Daniel Spreadbury previously wrote in comp.sys.amiga.applications:
- >> >> In article <829238030.27799@digita.demon.co.uk>, info@digita.demon.co.uk
- >> >> wrote:
- >> >>
- >>
- >> I remember when Commodore was sold to ESCOM and everybody figured
- >> that all ESCOM wanted was the trademark and that the Amiga was headed
- >> right down the tubes. But that didn't happen. Amiga production was
- >> restarted and Amiga development went ahead. But I said at the time
- >> that if somebody was going to pay GOOD MONEY for Commodore, then they
- >> weren't about flush it down the drain.
- >>
- >> Now AT has been sold FOR EVEN MORE MONEY to Visicorp (a company
- >> FULL of Amiga bigots--if you haven't heard). These guys aren't
- >> spending $40 million just for the privilege of flushing Amy down
- >> the toilet either.
- >>
- >> Stay cool.
- >>
- >> Kevin (soft-logik@cup.portal.com)
- >>
- >> >--
- >>
- >> I'm keepin' my hyphen, so there.
- >
- >This to me sounds like a good thing for the Amiga, somebody atlast has
- >realises that the Amiga is worth some real money, you don`t imho spend
- >40 million buying a company that a. the previous owner bought for 10
- >million(I think)
-
- What if this is a 'stock transfer' and NOT a sale for cash? Change any
- minds? We don't know the details yet ...
-
-
- and b. tha has a few bits of technologhy that would be
- >useful for a set top box and you already have a license for unless you
- >have some pretty big intentions for the bits that you have not got a
- >license for, in this case the Amiga computer.
-
- Or you want to protect the initial investment and aren't sure what a
- new owner might do in the way of licensing?
-
- >Also the odds are that the Amiga may still appear in Escom shops as they
- >are one of its present distribution channels. (read the announcement
- >at http://www.cucug.org/at/at960411.html)
-
- What if VisCorp doesn't buy any of the inventory that is in the
- pipeline? That may be Escom's ONLY way to get rid of what they have on
- the floor ...
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Unelected Official
-
- Gemini2@cup.portal.com 1:106/7512.1 Team AMIGA
-
- Proud supporter of Amiga Technologies/VisCorp
-
- ... People will buy anything if it's in short supply!
-
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