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- From: Ben Calascione <ben.calascione@magnet.mt>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Amiga and Escom UK
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 22:54:55 GMT
- Organization: Mangement Systems Unit Ltd.
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- Hi,
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- I'd like to thank Andrew Elia for his direct and honest posting about
- what Escom UK is doing to the Amiga ("Escom UK: A historic moment").
-
- It makes a welcome change from the increasingly shrill insistance from
- the mainstream Amiga mags that everything is super-duper in the amiga
- world.
-
- I've saved a copy of his posting and when my grandchildren ask what that
- weird looking box of mine is in the attic and ask if its what we had to
- use before Bill Gates came along, I will show them a copy of this posting
- and whinge about how it could all have been so different.
-
- My point is, if Escom are finally putting commission on shifting amigas
- it is for 2 reasons.
- 1) they finally realised what a viable machine it is and have started
- promoting and supporting it.
-
- 2) They have a stockpile of end of line A1200s and they have a last
- chance to dump on unsuspecting J. Public because AT are about to dump on
- _them_ a newish generation of Amigas (for them to pile up in a corner).
- They have no intention of providing any other support and are going to
- cheese off and alienate a bunch of potential Amiga converts.
-
- Given recent history, which due you think is more likely?
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