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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Portfolio Software
- Message-ID: <eRF5VB3w165w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz>
- From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:24:25 +1300
- References: <H.ea.2ewmreoSi6s@yonder.equinox.gen.nz>
- Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)
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- craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore) writes:
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- > In <1gn61cINN27r@golem.wcc.govt.nz>, sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
- >
- > >We don't have Atari support here in New Zealand any more..
- >
- > Correction.... _you_ don't have support in your part of NZ.
- > There is a computer software shop here, which I am told sells
- > atari stuff, and there's a computer shop that will service the
- > ST... they get their spare parts from Australia or the USA.
- > There's suppost to be some new dealer for the country now as well I think.
-
- Yep. Atari sales in New Zealand are now supported by Atari Australia.
-
- Fine - Except for one thing - We're paying over 100% more than our
- friends in the USA for the same hardware......and software is STILL
- virtually unobtainable through most of the country for those without
- Usenet access.
-
- (The notable exception being Nelson because of a very aggressive sales
- campaign - run by a local retailer - which put STs in most primary schools
- there.)
-
- As a comparison, PCclone hardware is at most 10% more expensive, and Joe
- average user can get software at any local shop.
-
- Is it any wonder people don't buy atari in NZ?
-
- Not flaming, just not looking at the mchines with rose-coloured glasses.
-
-
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- Alan Brown. (SysAdmin)
- dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz Palmerston North
- Dawghaus BBS -> +64 (6) 357-9245 New Zealand
- "A wet and windy place at the bottom of the World"
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