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- SHORT - over 300 AMIGA-RELATED PRESS RELEASES FROM AMIGAZONE
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- This file contains over 300 Press releases (texts) collected in the
- Amiga Zone message base on Portal over the last five years, since
- April, 1991 to present day. They range from the announcement of the
- A3000 Tower by Commodore, up to a long text posted by Jim Drew in Sept.
- 1996 and everything in between.
-
- It's my believe that the history of the Amiga and the products that
- have swirled around it for years is important to maintain. That's why
- this message base sat on Portal with nothing removed from it since the
- day it was created. So folks can browse through these three hundred
- texts and get a sense of what went on these last five years.
-
- Not all of these press releases are purely about Amiga products, but
- they all were in the p/r message base 'cuz I felt that Amiga owners
- would be interested in them.
-
- And now for something completely commercial: The Portal System has
- shut down after ten years of operation. The Amiga Zone is moving to a
- new host system: CalWeb Internet Services. The official press release
- about this follows below.
-
- A lot of you rant and rave :) on Usenet and elsewhere about lack of
- Amiga support. Lack of dealers. Lack of magazines. Lack of companies
- supporting you. Lack of user groups. Lack of everything.
-
- Well, it's time to put your money where your mouth is!
-
- The Amiga Zone has suppored Amiga owners, first on People/Link for five
- years, and following its shutdown, on Portal for the last five years.
- That's a full decade of non-stop, continuous, professional (and fun)
- support online for Amiga owners.
-
- It's fully my intention to keep it going in the new Amiga Zone on
- CalWeb, which I will still continue to sysop.
-
- But I cannot do it alone, and I cannot do it without you.
-
- I've gotten a lot of very warm, and personal "thank yous" over the
- years, and especially lately since Portal announced its shut-down. I
- appreciate every single one, and I've personally stopped in my frenzy
- of moving a huge SIG from one service to another, to write back.
-
- But folks, the reality of the situation is that I can't pay the rent
- with thank you notes. This is a full-time occupation for me so I need
- your support more than ever. The press release below explains how.
-
- If you want to make a highly positive and visible impact on the Amiga
- "situation", and if you want to support a resource that has supported
- you for the last ten years, please read my press release below, and
- then please pick up your phone and dial CalWeb and sign up.
-
- Best Regards,
- Harv Laser
- harv@amigazone.com
- 2 October, 1996
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- Sept. 20, 1996
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
- THE AMIGA ZONE MOVES FROM PORTAL TO CALWEB INTERNET SERVICES
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- For over ten years the Amiga Zone has been an online resource, home,
- community, oasis, for Amiga owners.
-
- For over ten years I've made my living running the Zone and supporting
- Amiga users all over the USA, Canada, and the world.
-
- Five years ago when American People/Link pulled their own plug, we had
- to find the Zone a new home and we found a good one on the Portal
- Online
- System.
-
- Well, it's happened again.. Portal has informed all of its customers
- that its ten year history as an online service and Internet provider is
- coming to an end on Sept. 30, 1996. This is very sad, it's
- short-notice, and the decision is completely out of my control, but
- it's also irreversible.
-
- Portal is changing its entire business plan from being an ISP to
- selling a business accounting system to other online services.
-
- So be it. It's sad, but like I said, the Zone went through this before
- and now we'll go through it again, and come out the other side better
- and wiser.
-
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- THE AMIGA ZONE IS MOVING TO CALWEB INTERNET SERVICES.
- =====================================================
-
- CalWeb (http://www.calweb.com) is a two year old Internet provider
- located in Sacramento, CA. It has a good sized customer base, and very
- knowledgeable support staff.
-
- It's also run by a long time Amiga owner who has been a friend of mine
- for many years.
-
- The world of modeming has changed much in the last ten years. In 1985
- you had very few choices and you had 1200 baud. These days, everyone
- and his dog has an ISP running and a web page
-
- But the vast majority of providers don't know an Amiga from a hole in
- the ground, and could care less about Amiga owners.
-
- CalWeb is different because it's the new home of the Amiga Zone.
-
- In October 1996, a new custom front-end menued system will be added to
- CalWeb to host the Zone. It'll have features for Zone users that
- neither Plink nor Portal ever had nor were they willing to add.
-
- The tradition of a friendly online Amiga community, run by long time
- Amiga owners, users and lovers will continue. Message bases, huge file
- libraries (we are moving over the 20,000+ files we have on the Zone on
- Portal to CalWeb, MANY of which you'll never see on Aminet or anywhere
- else), live nightly chats, vendor support and our famous prize contests
- will continue.
-
- We've given away tens of thousands of dollars worth of Amiga prizes in
- the last ten years. No one else even comes close.
-
- I urge any and all of you who were on Plink, or who are now on Portal
- or who may have left Portal.. or even if you were never on either but
- used or still use another online service to join CalWeb for the Amiga
- Zone. I personally promise you the best online Amiga community we can
- possibly build. You will not be disappointed.
-
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- CalWeb has arranged a special signup offer for you!
-
- Call 1.800.509.9322
- or 1.916.641.9320
- or telnet to calweb.com, login as "guest", and follow the prompts.
-
- You can join CalWeb for US$19.95 flat, a month.
-
- CalWeb takes major credit cards or you can establish a monthly invoiced
- account if you don't have plastic.
-
- The signup is FREE.
-
- To get this deal you must say "THE AMIGA ZONE SENT ME" when you call or
- signup online.
-
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-
- I hope to see lots of you join CalWeb. You can telnet into it from
- anywhere for no hourly charges at all. Your $19.95/mo fee covers
- everything and also gets you ten meg of storage which includes hosting
- your own personal web page. Naturally, when the Zone opens there,
- you'll have unlimited use of all of its features and areas. Never a
- "money meter" clock to worry about.
-
- Your personal or business CalWeb Web pages are maintained by you via
- FTP. It's pretty slick. You can make a net connection to the server
- with any Amiga FTP client, put your files onto it, the permissions are
- automatically set (no "chmod-ing" required!) and flip to your running
- browser and see the changes instantly.
-
- The Amiga Zone's new home page is already up at:
-
- http://www.amigazone.com
-
- running on CalWeb's server. Ckeck it out!
-
- Please feel free to write to me at harv@amigazone.com if you want more
- information.
-
- Remember to say "THE AMIGA ZONE SENT ME!" when you join.
-
- A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
-
- Please plan to join us in the Amiga Zone on CalWeb!
-
- Regards,
- Harv Laser
- harv@amigazone.com
- http://www.amigazone.com
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