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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Manfred Schmitt resigns?
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 96 18:47:19
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- References: <351BFC81@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <4i437b$2g2p@rohcs1.uhc.com> <1182.6647T522T1822@chch.planet.org.nz> <4ie8uj$46a@news.mikrobitti.fi> <4jgtir$389@gerry.cc.keele.ac.uk>
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- In article <4jgtir$389@gerry.cc.keele.ac.uk> u3f38@teach.cs.keele.ac.uk (David Coombes) writes:
-
- > And have we learnt? You can't believe everything you read. You can't
- > believing anything you read, until you see it. Just 'coz a piece of paper
- > has the words "ESCOM collapsed" doesn't mean ESCOM has collapsed, unless you
- > see their shops disappearing.
-
- Even that would not need to be the end of Escom. My take on the whole affair is
- that Schmitt realized that the PC boom was a temporary matter, and decided to
- fold as soon as it stopped.
-
- So their next move *could* be to close those Escom shops that nobody seems to
- like, and turn Escom into a reincarnation of Commodore Germany, which returned
- to profitability before CBM went belly-up. They are already selling hardware
- under the Commodore label, and now even with a Commodore CEO.
-
-
- > And if you don't agree, read this...
- >
- > ESCOM COLLAPSED -
- >
- > After HUGE losses, the company ESCOM is no more, sucking the Amiga down with
- > them. No-one was willing to buy anything so the whle company's assesst, all
- > buildings and equipment, are being sold as scrap. Amiga development kits
- > are going for 20 quid if you know where to look.
- >
- > It must be true, 'coz someone said so.
-
- Nonono--it has to rhyme too. What do you think, people here are _gullible_ or
- something!?
-
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
- So where is this global warming that politicians have been promising us?
-