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- From: burke@vxdesy.desy.de
- Subject: Dixons etc.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.174528.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:45:28 GMT
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- While I was back in England for Christmas I did a quick survey of Dixons
- branches. There were no Acorn machines at all in the main branches in Luton and
- Oxford; the one in Oxford St. (London) had one A3010 (switched off), and I'm
- told there was some presence in Milton Keynes. I found one person who
- remembered seeing the TV ads, and my cousin bought an Amiga for her two
- daughters (I don't think she'd even heard of Acorn). So much for the marketing
- blitz.
-
- BTW, I went in the new Watford Electronics shop in Luton, and I was fairly
- impressed; it's the biggest Acorn-related shop I've seen. It's a bit hard to
- find, though!
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