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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 03:13:34 GMT
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- Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : I'm afraid I'm gonna have to partly disagree, Jason. I've worked for a
- : newspaper. Commodore's demise not being covered is a direct
- : result of the importance of it's demise on a national and global
- : scale, which is just about zip. After all, how many people worked at
- : CBM when it went sour? Heck, we've got companies here in Holland that
- : have sacked a hundred times as many people at some new manager's whim.
-
- Yes, but at one time Commodore came damn near to ruling the personal
- computing world. More than once they made serious impacts on it, for
- about 20 years, in fact.
-
- That would be like saying if, say, the Ford Motor Company went on a 5
- year decline and finally closed with 100 employees laid off it wouldn't
- be a newsworthy story. The decline of an industry leader culminating in
- its demise AND REBIRTH of its signature product is a story, no matter how
- you slice it.
-
- : Nevertheless, you're right in stating that a lot - I won't say "most"
- : - of general newspapermen know nothing about computers except that
- : they need a "word processor", that computers are made by "IBM" and
- : that software is made by "Microsoft".
-
- The worst part is the ones that DO know, don't care.
-
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