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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Bought Powermac, Amiga in corner
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 14:49:22 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
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- References: <4059120759@news.onramp.net> <2992029077@p14.f411.n201.z2.ftn> <4jf3tn$pls@guava.epix.net> <1996Mar30.095209.53708@cobra.uni.edu>
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- PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- : In article <4jf3tn$pls@guava.epix.net>, wnear@epix.net (Bill Near) writes:
- : > On 26 Mar 1996 10:22:05 -0700, Karl Thomas articulated:
- : > <> wnear@epix.net (Bill Near) writes:
- : >
- : > <> >Why should we have to put an A4000, made by a SINGLE
- : > <> >company, up against a CLONE of an Apple product? Let's try
- : > <> >it against the same model Mac made by APPLE.
- : > <>
- : > <> Why you wouldn't limit PC users to just comparing computers by IBM would you?
- : > <> These computers are just as available and run just as well as Macs, seems
- : > <> like a fair comparison.
- : >
- : > If this were the case then Apple wouldn't be selling ANY
- : > computers at all. Oops, that IS the case! Apple is on the
- : > way down -- big time.
-
- : Like AT is.. At failed in their forcast to sell 10,000 A4000T in NA.
-
- And of course you have the references at hand to back this up....?
-
- : Escom
- : reported a big loss caused by the Amiga which resulted in the ouster by the
- : Amiga savior the Chairman and CEO.
-
- This is not what I read. The loss was mainly the result of
- the daring Escom retail-chain investment in the UK not reaching
- the proposed turnover, and a failed collaboration between
- Escom and another multimedia-partner on the PC side.
- You might want to to dig up the original press-release
- on this as I'm unable to remeber the full details.
- Cheers...
-