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- Article: 75229 of comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
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- From: MustangVR@cup.portal.com (Aaron Mustang Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: C= Dead but the Amiga is picked up?
- Message-ID: <110431@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 94 00:20:24 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
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- Take this for what you will. This is the information I have
- collected form sources including: The CSM, Scala, MicroPace (C= distributor)
- , CEI (C= distributor) and MicroTech (C= distributor as well)
-
- First off, I called Micropace and spoke with my Rep.
- I asked him if he had foudn out about the people they had liad
- off and he didn't really know as of then, I asked him if his
- customers were unhappy about not getting anymore A4000's. He
- then told me that they were recieving a new shipment of the
- A4000 line today. This could have included the new A4000LC
- and the under $1400 A4000CR (cost reduced) that CEI had in
- stock. ( I can varify this sence my friend now owns one from them,
- it's only difference is that the 030 is on the motherboard, but
- you can still upgrade with a 060 Modual later, it's SIMM ram sockets
- are on the motherboard as well.) So they are still in stock of
- A4000's for now.
-
- CSM told me that the phillipeans plant has indeed closed
- down for now and the CD32 isn't being produced, but they had made
- a large amount of them in the past 9+ months and have enough
- for the mean time, CEI is the main USA distributor for the CD32
- is paying for several ads in several Magazines. Also the Plant in
- ScotLand is shutting down for one reason, seems C= didn't pay them
- for thier last batch of Amiga's.. so no more production untill
- somone can front the money for the new Amiga's to be produced.
- in other words, don't expect the A1200's to be very available
- anymore.
-
- Scala is trying to grab quite a fw A4000's to Run
- Info-Channel on until something can be done to make more.
- They are working on a IBM version that will not run quite
- as well (obviously) but in other words, they are covering
- thier butts.. I was told that the IBM support wouldn't
- ruin the amiga support tho...There are MANY Amiga's out
- there and they still need software. even if another
- Amiga was sold from this day, there is still a very large
- consumer Market out there.
-
- and this you can take for what you will, a person
- from MicroTech said it, not me, so you can believe it or not
- I quote:
-
- Today MicroTech, an Amiga distributor, said
- that several US distributors had signed
- agreements with C= Canada to get CPU/parts
- and peripherals. They also said that Most
- of C= USA's staff went to work for another
- which is actually a new C= organiation but
- with another name.
-
-
- Cirtianly is interesting... C= USA is more or less taken apart
- and being sold off... but Thhe AGA chipset doesn't nessasarily
- have to go with them, it does belong to the creditors yes,
- but, it belonged to C= before this and perhaps this was the
- plan to save the Amiga.. who knows what will happen in the
- next 3 months... CD32 is doing well.. to bad C= is
- all but dead and CEI has to take it all over... Oh wait,
- CEI is advertising, marketing, selling, getting reviews,
- you know, all those things that C= didn't do? hmm maybe this
- is all good news???
-
-
- to end this off, I can't take any responcibility
- for the accuracy of this, I do give my word that nothing here
- I made up or just pulled out of the air.. all info was givin
- to me by other people, those people are trustable too even!
-
- see ya on the net.. with my A4000CR/future Cyberstorm 66Mhz 060
- (that's right kids, let the 060 breath new power into that old
- amiga of yours)
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