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From: [e-mail] (wendell)
Subject: Re: Wall St. Journal Article (LONG)
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 01:48:06 GMT


On the subject of Wall St. Journal Article (LONG), Darren Eveland had this
to say...

 DE> Thanks go out to mavericke on IRC #amiga for this.

 DE>                      WALL STREET JOURNAL
 DE>                     TECHNOLOGY SELECTIONS
 DE>
 DE>                              18 Mar 96
 DE> -----------------------------------------------------

 DE> 4.  Escom AG Tries To Resuscitate Its Amiga PC --- Remembrance of
 DE> Glory
 DE>    Lends Certain Mystique To Model With a Past
 DE>       By Silvia Ascarelli, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

 DE>   HANOVER, Germany -- Can a computer be jinxed? Ask the three
 DE>   successive owners of the Amiga home computer.

 DE>    "Technologically, it's a great computer," says Asha DeVelder, 48
 DE> years old, a Northern California graphic artist who walked out of a
 DE> store in 1986 with an Amiga instead of the typewriter she was shopping
 DE> for. "The bottom line is the technology is still there; it's still
 DE> graceful, it still works. There's no reason to leave."

 DE> But prospective buyers won't find boxes of software to go along with
 DE> it.
 DE>    "I can get what I need for it," says Ms. DeVelder, the graphic
 DE> artist. She relies on mail-order firms for most programs and says her
 DE> software collection already fills two 75-disk wooden boxes, a 50- and
 DE> 100-disk box and several 30-disk boxes, in addition to "various piles
 DE> of disks scattered about" her office.

Alright Asha!!

Hey, how did you manage to get interviewed anyhow? Can't think of a
better representitive, though.   ;-)

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