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- From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New machine sales
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- Message-ID: <bruce.0ea1@zuhause.MN.ORG>
- References: <1jkbmqINNhot@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <1jmb0fINNstr@pith.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:03:48 CST
- Organization: Society to Stamp Out Bogus Organizations
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- In article <1jmb0fINNstr@pith.uoregon.edu> ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:
- >James R. Burley II (jrb@jrb.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
- >: Does anyone know how well the new AGA machines are selling? Commodore
- >: had a terrible last quarter and their stock has been sliding ever since.
- >: I'm hoping for a turn around with the next quarterly earnings due out at
- >: the end of Jan '93.
- >
- > The local Software Etc. is now down to two shelves of Amiga software -
- >maybe a maximum of 20 titles. That's downright pathetic. Even the A600 that
- >was on display for a couple weeks is no longer around. It's do or die time
- >for Commodore. No more futzing around, no more trying to turn a profit on
- >margins... it's time to sell some friggin machines so developers will start
- >writing software for the machine.
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- For what it's worth, my local Amiga dealer has sold at least 10 A1200HD's in
- the last week, although I suspect mostly to previous Amiga owners.
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