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- From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- Subject: Dixons and the A1200
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.152502.12632@city.cs>
- Sender: news@city.cs (News)
- Organization: City University, London
- References: <1992Nov15.103719.9969@sth.frontec.se> <92323.003545BGT101@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Nov18.133139.21744@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:25:02 GMT
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- Dixons is one of the dealers the woman at CBM UK mentioned when I
- asked for technical information.
-
- I visited Dixons on Saturday, to check out the new A1200. I searched
- high and low and almost missed it. It was hidden on a very shallow,
- low shelf. I had to crawl on my hands and knees to look at the
- machine, which had a small card behind it saying `Amiga 1200', and
- a couple of details in smaller print. It was not powered up or
- connected to any sort of display.
-
- The Sega and Nintendo systems were in prime position and attracting
- quite a crowd. Even the A600 was in a better position, and connected
- to a cheap diplay - although it was not running anything apart from
- the usual Workbench hand (now animated and in a few colours under KS2).
-
- Over on the business side, all the PC-Compatibles were hooked up
- to expensive hi-res monitors, and running impressive looking colour
- demos of business software, and producing high quality print outs..
-
- I asked a sales dweeb to show me an A1200. He waved towards it on
- its hidden shelf, and said that its just the same as the A600
- really. I said I wanted to check out its 256000 colours and speed.
- He said it would only look like an A600, as it had no software for
- it. When I pressed further he gave me the same story, and declined
- to show me, sayinging the A1200 did not come with a software
- pack. He said Dixons did not sell any Amiga softare, so he could
- not demonstrate the A1200. I might have been a potential customer.
- This scene may well have been repeated in Dixons in every high
- street in the UK that day. CBM UK Marketing are you listening?
-
- I looked at the rows and rows of Nintendo and Sega titles, and the
- crowds buying up these systems in the pre-christmas rush. And I left
- the store in abject desolation and utter despair.
-
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- Lionel Tun (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
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