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- From: jamesm@turtle.apana.org.au (James McArthur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: ESCOM takes a dive
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 21:46:35 +0930
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- Aaron Smith (Mustang@vrb.com) wrote:
- : On Tue 2-Jan-1996 11:02p, Kerry Ferrand wrote:
- : KF> I was just flipping through TV channels and heard the name Escom
- : KF> mentioned on a CNN International financial show. It mentioned that the
- : KF> value of its stock had dropped 25% after the company announced that it
- : KF> failed to make a profit in 1995. This can't be a positive development re
- : KF> Amiga Tech.
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- : Remeber tho, IBM USA took HUGE profit losses a mere 3 years ago, their
- : stock dropped heavy, the critics were saying goodbye.. and now look, they are
- : kicking serious butt.. Buying Lotus, designing some nice hardware and pumping
- : out PPC chips. Who knows, maybe Escoms main line could be the Amiga ;)
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- : We could have the US vs Europe, PC clones vs Amiga. the great war.
- : 10,000,000 PPC620 Amigas sold a year :)
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- Only 10,000,000 :-) I think 50,000,000 sounds way better :-)
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- : "Amiga, computers for people who want more than just a PC."
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- : Finger mustang@vrb.com info@vrb.com recent@vrb.com who@vrb.com
- : A3000 Warped 040/40Mhz 16MB/2gigs, 17 serial ports, OS3.1
- : A4000Tower 060 or PPC soon!
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