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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 19:23:51 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4d3o47$530@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960110.77F0A90.124C4@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4d3glb$sbf@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4d3hle$udh@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Summary: Don't be a smarta*s
- Keywords: What has changed
-
- In article <4d3hle$udh@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- Byron Montgomerie <bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> wrote:
- >George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- >: I'll let you know the first time I seen a Vic-20, along with my parents
- >: was A) in school and then B) in Canadian Tire here in Canada.
- >
- >You didn't mention when that was, perhaps over ten years ago? :) Perhaps some
- >things have changed since then? :)
-
- Yeah, what has changed is that Commodores are no longer used as the main
- computer in grade schools or Universities and Commodore has gone
- bankrupt. MACS are in schools along with PCs and they and Apple are
- still alive... hmmm... what doesn't seem right here?
-
- When I was in Grade 6 (and I am 23 now) our elementary school had a
- VIC-20 for its main computer, when I was in High School they had
- Commodore Pets, C64s and 128s as the main computers and the University
- were using C64/128s for various programs in the University here.
-
- The University got some Amigas down the road but the grade schools never
- and still don't. Practically everything now is PCs with some MACS in the
- University and grade schools with the C64 being pushed back to
- kindergarten/elementary school level... at least they are still being used.
-
- >
- >As far as I am concerned Kmart/Can. Tire is where computers go when they are
- >dumped. PCs have grown beyond this phenomena and become commodity items like a
- >tv or vcr.
-
- Canadian Tire only carries stuff for Nintendo and Sega now but Kmart
- carries Nintendo, Sega, Sony Playstation and PC CD-ROM and floppy
- software, I didn't see any computers set up in there the last time I was
- in but they still carry software. Walmart carries Nintendo, Sega and
- PC-CDROM and floppy software along with PC computers but don't carry the
- Sony Playstation, the only place I have seen carrying them are Kmart and
- the Sony Store along with a few other game rental/speciality places
- around town that I do not frequent.
-
- Point being computers do not go to Kmart, Walmart etc. because they are
- being dumped, they go there to get more exposure and those places can
- offer the machines at a lower cost for the consumer but lack technical
- support etc. that the dealers can provide.
-
- >: My point is I got introduced to the computers via department stores and
- >: then furthered it with my dealers for repairs and software/other hardware
- >: purchases which the department stores didn't offer.
- >
- >: Once I GOT the computer, THEN I started checking out the dealers for that
- >: computer, before that, I hardly went into computer dealer stores.
- >
- >Yes, and if everyone else lived on the back side of the moon like we do it
- >might make a difference. :)
-
- What do you mean the back side of the moon? It is like this everywhere,
- something offered in a major department store will get more exposure then
- something offered in a speciality store.. thus attracting new blood.
-
- >: >Eric Szulczewski
- >: >ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net
- >: >Member, Team AMIGA
- >: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >: Phea!
- >
- >: -=*George*=-
- >
- >Visit The Guild BBS, 709-738-1415, for more of the same. :)
-
- The same what? Pro-Amiga posts? You do not call The Guild anymore thus
- not knowing what it is like anymore and with your negative outlook such as
- the above, its been no loss. I'm surprized you still even "own" an Amiga
- with all the posts you have been getting on with saying you can get a
- Pentium with more power for the same amount of money. If you can, go buy it!
-
- If you are talking about the "Phea!" comment I mentioned above to the guy
- claiming to be a part of Team Amiga and then craps over the Amiga
- whenever he gets a chance to, then sure, I call a spade a spade when
- needed and it is no worse then the guys on .advocacy argueing and flaming
- a lot worse over OPing on IRC.
-
- >Regards,
- >
- >BM
-
- -=*George*=-
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