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- From: odin@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Andrew George Elia)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: TV Technology Mag. Good Amiga piece!
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 11:12:28 GMT
- Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
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- GREMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU wrote:
- : The 1/26/95 issue of TV Technology magazine has a nice article about
- : the Amiga, titled "Amiga Computers...They're Baaack" by Terence Dyke &
- : Paul Smolen (email address: media-methods@tpoint.com).
- : It's a big article leading off the Destop Video section of the magazine.
- : It gives a fair description of Escom' buyout of CBM (though it got the $$$
- : wrong), and the Amiga' subsequent recovery, and plans for the future. It
- : says "So far, it looks like Escom is doing everything right.". It is very
- : upbeat and emphasized the web access potential of the Amiga based net
- : solutions possible " Schmitt may have put his company on the front side of
- : a major trend.". It then goes on to describe various other efforts at the
- : net top box.
- :
-
- ...and according to Amiga Format, there's an article in a home video/camcorder type magazine
- which described the Amiga Magic pack as "The bargain of the century". With reviews like this,
- it should lead to some good sales in those particular fields. Basically, although advertising
- would generate the most sales, things like this will help to sell Amigas until AT DO
- eventually get some advertising (which, hopefully they will).
-
- Andy E.
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