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- From: A.M.Wall@newcastle.ac.uk (A.M.Wall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Acorn Computers
- Message-ID: <BxLMsv.MGF@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 10:36:31 GMT
- References: <BxG8sv.6qt@newcastle.ac.uk> <1992Nov10.224105.13623@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1992Nov11.103524.21385@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov11.103524.21385@cs.nott.ac.uk> rsxdp@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (D.Pead) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.224105.13623@cs.nott.ac.uk> smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
- >>In article <BxG8sv.6qt@newcastle.ac.uk> A.M.Wall@newcastle.ac.uk (A.M.Wall) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Oct29.110459.1688@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jabell@nyx.cs.du.edu (James Bell) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>Does Acorn have a division in the US? Canada even? I`d like to contact
- >>>>Acorn without having to mail a letter to England.
- >>>
- >>>Acorn does have links with Olivetti Canada, but I don't think there is an
- >>>actual division of Acorn in Canada or the US.
- >>
- >>At the BBC Acorn User Show I met some chaps who claimed to be from Acorn
- >>Canada. I don't think they were crooks... Do the Olivetti folks call
- >>themselves Acorn?
- >>
- >>
- >You must pop up and see my "Acorn Computers Canada Inc." mousemat some
- >time, Simon! They definitely exist because they lent us a load of
- >110V Arcs in Quebec this summer.
- >
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- My apologies - Olaf Trunzer and Dorothy Netherwood used to work for Olivetti
- Canada (I think). I was unaware that Acorn Canada had been formed.
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