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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 18:57:50 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4d8vbe$tp4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : Yeah, what has changed is that Commodores are no longer used as the main
- : computer in grade schools or Universities and Commodore has gone
-
- Haven't been for some time now, yes? :) They phased out C64s and pets a year
- before I left high school and that is over ten years ago. :) When I left my
- high school they were putting in xts, maybe there was a leftover pet or c64
- around but that is not enough to call them being used in schools.
-
- : bankrupt. MACS are in schools along with PCs and they and Apple are
- : still alive... hmmm... what doesn't seem right here?
-
- Macs are used mainly in the primary grades with PCs taking the high schools.
- Macs have around an 8% market share and declining according to one source I
- read.
-
- : >dumped. PCs have grown beyond this phenomena and become commodity items like a
- : >tv or vcr.
-
- : 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.
-
- Point being that PCs don't need such exposure anymore if they ever did. PCs
- are being sold in places like Sears (hardly any sales though) because they are
- what defines the word computer for most people.
-
- When I saw c64s in KMart they were at dumping prices, other than that there was
- the old display model amiga that never got a look until you could actually see
- the aging in the plastic case. :)
-
- : What do you mean the back side of the moon? It is like this everywhere,
-
- Yeah right.
-
- : something offered in a major department store will get more exposure then
- : something offered in a speciality store.. thus attracting new blood.
-
- You go to a department store to find bargains not get the best value. If you
- want to sell beaded car seat covers that is the place to sell them, not
- computers.
-
- : 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.
-
- Keep it in .advocacy please. And you might get someone to read your messages
- if you keep them down to 100k or less. :) Repeat, this is not your bbs.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
- P.S. I might actually consider what you have to say if you ever used your amiga
- for anything other than old games of the pre ecs era. Debating with you is
- endless anyway.
-
-