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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 20:40:09 -0800
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- >
- >> David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- >> : market - they already are known to the only people that are buying
- >> : their machines - past Amiga owners and video shop owners. So why
- >> : advertise?
- >>
- >> They've just made a deal with McDonalds in Germany to advertise in their
- >> restaurants and leaflets. I think this is advertising as it should be. Now,
- >> they can't conquer the whole world at once - home market is a good
- >> place to start.
- >
- >And you guys do know how many people who passes McDonald in one day, and
- >Germany is a *BIG* country. So I think they have made a good move doing
- >the adds there, where alot of different people goes. The cinemas is also
- >a good place to add on, also MTV!
-
- I keep thinking about all the 'kids' that will finally be exposed to the
- Amiga again. I remeber when C= made a special effort to get the 500's and
- C64's in schools for free or at little cost. That's what started that
- market force going.
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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