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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
- Subject: Re: Is it Adios Amiga again? (AT sold out!)
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 22:40:14 -0700
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <151604@cup.portal.com>
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- >In a message of 09 Apr 96 jmason@dynanet.com wrote to All:
- >
- >>> Well, as you probably have heard by now, Escom dumped AT. VisCorp is
- >>> now has the ownership of Amiga Technologies. Since this company is
- >>> basically a settop box company, what plans do they have to continue
- >>> the amiga line?
- >
- >All of these posts are WAY off topic for this echo, but I HAVE to add
- >my own two-cents. If all of this is indeed true (I have not seen the
- >press release).. it doesn't surprise me at ALL. I'm guessing Escom only wanted
- >all the copyrights that C= held.. and then dumped the Amiga. I was hoping that
- >DELL computers (in the good old U.S.A.) would have won the Amiga back when C=
- >was being liqudated (and if you have read the reports they did atually offer a
- >larger sum.. but had a few "conditions" in the
- >agreement.)
- >
- >When I heard about the Amiga "Walker" I got excited.. and thought
- >"well what do you know.. a NEW amiga.. and it sounds like a
- >very good idea". How it has all come to this is mind-boggling.
- >I guess the Amiga is DOOMED to become to the computer industry
- >what the "Tucker" was to the auto industry :)
- >
- >Joey McDonald
-
- Joey ... the BIGGEST difference between the Tucker and the Amiga is the
- dedication of the user base! If ya just lay down and give up ... it may
- just be over ... FOR YOU!
-
- I intend to stick around awhile, hell most of us decided we are in till the
- Power Amiga anyways. What's another couple of weeks or a month till we see
- what the heck VisCorp has to say?
-
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg"
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