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- From: milton@arraytech.com (Milton Scritsmier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: +++ NEWS FLASH +++: ESCOM's managing director resigns!
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 19:19:55 -0600
- Organization: Array Technology
- Sender: milton@asylum.arraytech.com
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- In-reply-to: goos@badlands.NoDak.edu's message of 31 Mar 1996 01:22:51 GMT
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- In article <4jkmpb$p9a@daily-planet.nodak.edu> goos@badlands.NoDak.edu (Robert J Goos) writes:
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- > From: goos@badlands.NoDak.edu (Robert J Goos)
- > Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- > Date: 31 Mar 1996 01:22:51 GMT
- > Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network
- > Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
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- >
- > I take this as bad news. According to one of the top people at AT, whose
- > name I can't spell off the top of my head, it was Manfred who said, "I
- > want the Amiga." Now that he's out, it's possible that there is even
- > less support for the Amiga in Escom's board room....
- >
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- You are right on target. Infoworld announced that ESCOM has sold the
- Amiga to Visual Information Services Corp. (VIScorp) of Chicago for
- $40 million. VIScorp makes set-top boxes.
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- See http://www.infoworld.com/pageone/news/briefs.htm (this is a daily
- summary, so the Amiga story will disappear after a couple of days).
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