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- From: mbanet@netcom.com (David Waters)
- Subject: Re: Why not Wal-Mart or Sears!!!
- Message-ID: <mbanetDLn763.I3w@netcom.com>
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- References: <4dungg$m14@madrid.visi.net> <krafsur.822349881@pv217c.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:30:02 GMT
- Sender: mbanet@netcom16.netcom.com
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- King Henry V (krafsur@iastate.edu) wrote:
- : Hate to tell you this, but chain stores generally sell crap when it
- : comes to computers (bicycles too btw). Quite frankly Id rather not have
- : Amigas be associated with crap dos-box clones.
-
- So, let's let history repeat itself Mr. James Cole... ;-)
-
- King Henry V (krafsur@iastate.edu) wrote:
- : Secondly there is not enough of a market for any large chain to bother
- : stocking Amigas, remember even the biggest stores have limited shelf
- : space, they are not going to stock something that wont sell well.
-
- Obviously, Wal-Mart or Sears won't be selling A4000Ts but they'd be silly
- to ignore a computer, such as the A1200, that provides access to the WWW
- and sells for less than the cheapest (capable) IBM/Clone!!! Besides, all
- I'm hearing now is excitement over so-called $500 (US) dumb terminals to
- access the internet in the near future.
-
- David "Everybody thinks that they're a marketing expert!" Waters
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