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Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 22:29:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joshua Galun
To: hrlaser@netcom.com
Subject: IRC conference info!
Not the greatest prose ever, perhaps, but the best I could do in 3 minutes
for you. Enjoy!
May 30 - Frankfurt, Germany
Today Escom AG announced its plans for the Amiga line of personal
computers to the world in a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The
press conference was well attended by over 70 reporters from assorted
newspapers and magazines, including 2 reporters from Amiga Link Magazine,
Mathias Frankenbach and Joerg Gutzke. After the press conference, Mathis
came onto IRC and Amiga Link Magazine held a press conference to report on
what happened. Although the full edited log of the IRC conference will be
in Amiga Link #5, and the transcript to the conference will be released by
Amiga Link later as well, this is the gist of what happened.
Escom announced that they will have Amigas before the Christmas
season, probably by September or October. In their first run they plan to
make 15,000 A4000/040s, 10,000 A4000/060s (using the Ohase 5 Cyberstorm 060
card), 120,000-130,000 A1200s (which will be upgraded to the 030EC) and
CD32s (no numbers announced). They also plan to make a new box for the
A4000, which was shown at the press conference, and do a redisign of the
CD32 in 1996, so that it can compete with the new games consoles coming
out. Escom also said that they will make an Amiga t-shirt (no joke) to
allow Amiga users to show their support.
Escom is planning on making Pentium PCs with the C= name on it.
Escom said that every Amiga sold will come with Scala MM 300, the
multimedia authoring system, which is another sign that the Amiga will be
marketed as a multimedia machine. They also said that they will be porting
the Amiga OS to RISC, although they have not yet deicded on which chip to
use.
On the bad side of the news, Escom did not announce any concrete plans
for marketing the Amiga, and they didn't announce their distributors
outside of Europe, if they even have any. The Amiga Technologies company
will also only start with 50 employees.
The Amiga Technology Company will have a turnover of 100,000,000
deutch marks a year, and will break even by the end of this year.
Escom is looking to set up a factory in Europe to match their existing
one in China.
Read Amiga Link Magazine #5 for a more complete report, as their is
much that I have missed. This text file is freely distributable on BBS or
online service or Internet, but may not be used by any magazine,
newsletter, or other publication, without the express written consent of
Joshua Galun.
Joshua Galun
Editor of Amiga Link Magazine
/// Joshua Galun ///
/// Editor in Chief of Amiga Link Magazine ///
\\\/// "Your source for the latest Amiga news and Reviews!" \\\///
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