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- From: k926891@kingston.ac.uk (David Scutt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Alien Breed 3D Escom UK shops are crap
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:20:20 GMT
- Organization: Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames.
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- Randy Vice (damocles@nostromo.gate.net) wrote:
- : On Thu 29-Feb-1996 4:53p, rooster wrote:
-
- : <snip>
-
- : r> It's very encouraging to see that dealers in Europe are taking the
- : r> Amiga
- : r> seriously.But guess what ?In my local Escom shop* they have ALL the PCs
- : r> running some kind of demo(application,gfx,sound etc.)but the one 1200 they
- : r> have unboxed is sat at on end of the shop away from the window with just
- : r> the workbench screen showing.In the middle of the shops they have a stack
- : r> of
- : r> 1200s still boxed but absolutely nothing showing off demos.It is painfully
- : r> obvious the staff are only interested in selling PCs.If anyone from Escom
- : r> reads this then do something about it.Advertise for Amiga enthusiasts to
- : r> work in the shops to demo the Amiga.Contact demo groups and have packages
- : r> of
- : r> demos made so that even the most Amiga ignorant member of staff can load
- : r> in
- : r> a repeating series of demoes etc.COME ON!! YOU WILL MAKE MONEY FROM THIS!!
-
- : Did you try giving them a floppy (I presume the A1200 was HDless) with a great
- : AGA demo on it? If these Escom salesweasels are completely clueless on the
- : Amiga systems, it might take a kind Amigaphile a few minutes of his time and
- : set something up for them.
-
- You're lucky they had WorkBench running... my local shop (Fulham) has
- one all set up and turned on, but the ruddy thing just shows the screen with
- the hand putting a disk in a drive!!!
-
- Well, I figure it must take a ruddy powerful machine to do something
- like that!!!
-
- The thing is, there are DOZENS of PCs surrounding it showing of how powerful
- the 486DX66-Pentium Overdrive mega pc is..
-
- It seems to me that Escom couldn't really care much for the Amiga...
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- David Scutt, Kingston University....
- "Ain't that cute........ BUT IT'S WRONG!!!!!"
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