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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a victim.
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <58064@dime.cs.umass.edu> <C01GsK.L4C@news.iastate.edu> <29DEC199218114334@cs.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:51:08 GMT
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- In article <29DEC199218114334@cs.umass.edu> atkin@cs.umass.edu (Marc Atkin) writes:
- >In article [...], barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes...
- >>In article [...] barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
- >>>In article [...] atkin@cs.umass.edu (Marc Atkin) writes:
- >
- >[...]
- >
- >Thanks Marc for responding to Dan's response to my article: It results in a
- >wonderfully cute author list. (At least I think so!)
- >
- >To re-iterate the point of my original article:
- >From reading the net one can get the impression that nobody in the world knows
- >about the Amiga. Together with the relatively low volume of Amiga sales in the
- >US this can easily turn Amiga advocates into Amiga fanatics, which isn't
- >necessarily a good thing.
- >
- >Fact is that the Amiga is very well-known in Europe
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- The fact also is that many Amiga owners in the U.S. don't give a rip about
- Europe, Bosnia, or Swaziland. If the Amiga is not strong here, support is not
- available here, and hardware and software are not available here. These are
- enough reasons to dissuade a person from ever getting another Amiga.
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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