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  1. Path: plain.co.nz!usenet
  2. From: jmonson@chch.planet.org.nz (Jmonson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: NEWS:AMIGA TECH SOLD!!!!!!
  5. Date: 14 Apr 1996 19:53:28 GMT
  6. Organization: PlaNet(NZ) Community Networking (Canterbury, New Zealand)
  7. Message-ID: <1058.6678T996T132@chch.planet.org.nz>
  8. References: <316D1982.2DF3@ic.ac.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960413165216.23792C-100000@mail.inhb.co.nz>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp65210.chch.planet.org.nz
  10. X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
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  12.  
  13. >Well ESCOM didn't do too badly out of the Amiga - they bought C= for 12
  14. >million and now sell the amiga side for 40 million, and get to keep the
  15. >C= trademarks and logo which is what they wanted in the first place...
  16.  
  17. Um, I am guessing the costs to Escom of setting up AT, and getting production
  18. going of the Amiga would have been a tad more than $40 million.
  19.  
  20. I am guessing they made a loss here.
  21.  
  22. Jason
  23.  
  24.  
  25. <tsb>
  26.      ________________________          _______________________________
  27.     /                /         Volly           \                      \
  28.    /        /~~~~~~~~     Hooked.on.the.net     ~~~~~~~~~~~\           \
  29.   /  /~~~~~~   Look for me on IRC undernet #nz #Amigacafe   ~~~~~~~~~\  \
  30.  / /~  Real life: Pegasus Toastmasters, Christchurch West Rotoract    ~\ \
  31. / /  _______________________Team AMIGA________________________________  \ \
  32. ~~                                                                       ~~
  33. <sb>
  34. But wait, there is more.....  with the sig you also get a tagline:
  35.  
  36. POLITICS: Poly: many + Tics: blood sucking parasites
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