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- From: odin@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Andrew George Elia)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Escom shop better
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 15:52:39 GMT
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- Dominic Tristram (dbt3@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
-
- : What a plesant suprise.... I just went into town (Plymouth)
- : for lunch and popped into the Escom shop. Last time I went
- : in there was the sad sight of a pile of Magic packs on the
- : floor, but now there is a 1200 set-up, connected to an
- : Amiga 1438 monitor, and running a game! (one of the magic
-
- Yes. There was a memo from Head Office a while ago announcing that Escom
- stores would be given some 1438 monitors to display their Amigas with.
- They actually woke up to the fact that a pile of boxes don't sell on
- their own. but...
-
- : pack ones - don't know which). Amazing! It had a table all
- : to itself too!
-
- : Maybe there is hope yet (although I didn't actually ask
- : the salesman anything about it - I didn't want to push my
- : luck!)
-
- ...the bad news is that another Head Office memo followed it saying that
- all the Amigas are to be withdrawn from Escom stores. By the way, a lot
- of stores were given monitors, but have never bothered to connect them up
- to Amigas. They aren't in the catalogue any more, so goodness knows how
- they could expect to move the monitors. The only store that could
- possibly do the Amiga justice (my store in Enfield) were never given any.
- The inequity of things...
-
- : Dominic
-
- Andy E.
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