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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: "We learned from C='s mistakes" ..
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 09:40:17 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <151022@cup.portal.com>
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- >
- >Well, lets see here..I sold off my Amiga a couple months ago anticipating
- >the situation with Amiga Tech/Escom would come dragging to a halt within
- >the next 6 months... Lets hear just the news from this past week:
-
- So ... in 4 months we'll expect you to come back here and apologize and
- tell everyone how wrong you were when you said today that Amiga Tech/Escom
- would come to a grinding halt. Are you a big enough person to do that?
-
- If YOU are correct, I will post the same here. Deal?
-
- >Escom sucks a huge loss this quarter.. the CEO of Escom offers to pull a
- >Jack Tramiel-move and walk out on the company..Amiga-Tech announces its
- >"new" computer still has no market support, no customer support
- >service, has a 10-year-old CPU driving it, it will come in a
- >nonstandard case and cost as much as a near top-of-the-line 133 Mhz Pentium
- >tower with 35x as much speed, and 4x the memory.
-
- You must be shopping where you get the stuff to do your smoking? There is a
- significant difference in price here in Houston, Texas between the "new"
- Amiga computer as announced and the Pentium system you've just described.
-
- >Gee, sure does look like they've learned a WHOLE lot, doesn't it?
- >Its like the only thing that will prevent these children from painting
- >themselves further into a corner is not being able to afford any more paint!
-
- We shall see, little man!
-
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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- 43 year old Beta-Tester AND Central American Exporter!
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