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- From: barrett@cs.umass.edu (Dan Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: CBM no more?
- Summary: Commodore's annual retort
- Keywords: prang, gleep
- Date: 6 Nov 91 05:40:02 GMT
-
- OK, everybody, you can stop arguing about Commodore's annual
- report. It's all pointless now. I just got this off CompuBixLink.
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
-
- COMMODORE INTERNATIONAL BOUGHT OUT BY "MYSTERY" COMPANY
- HOSTILE TAKEOVER LEAVES 18 DEAD, 2 MISSING
-
- WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- November 3, 1991 -- Personal computer manufacturer
- Commodore International, makers of the popular "Amiga" computer, was the
- target of a hostile computer takeover yesterday. Several prominent analysts
- have called the takeover the "fastest and most violent ever witnessed" in
- the history of American business.
-
- At approximately 4:15am Eastern Standard Time, the attacker struck. The
- exact method of attack is still not known, but witnesses report that the
- entire operation was accompanied by "really, really mind-blowing graphics,
- animation and sound." Police on the scene immediately ruled out Apple and
- IBM as suspects.
-
- "It was terrifying," said one ex-CBM employee who requested anonymity. "I
- don't think I've ever been in a more frightening situation. Everything
- happened so fast. One minute, I was sitting at my terminal, hacking OS 2.06,
- and the next... I was flat on my back in the middle of the front lawn,
- surrounded by flames. I could swear I heard demonic laughter, explosions,
- and the grinding of heavy machinery. Only one thing's for sure: whatever
- it was, it happened fast. I mean, really fast. And violent."
-
- Irving Gould, former CEO of Commodore, was unavailable for comment. All of
- Mr. Gould's 6,595,338 shares of Commodore stock were found shredded in the
- basement of CBM headquarters. Poor Poopsie.
-
- The identity of the marauding corporation is still unknown, but FBI agents
- are beginning to pick up the trail. "We did find one small clue," said FBI
- Inspector Reginald P. Blarno, "when we examined the tragic scene from
- several hundred feet up in the air. It looks like somebody took a gigantic
- can of spray-paint and wrote the words 'BLAZEMONGER WINS AGAIN' on the roof
- of the building. We don't who this 'BLAZEMONGER' person is yet, but we have
- a few leads."
-
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-
- Wow! I wonder who did it? I guess all we can do now is wait and
- see if the "mystery corporation" will come forward.
-
- [Heh heh.]
-
- Dan
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- Copyright 1991 by Daniel J. Barrett. All rights reserved.
- This article may be freely distributed, but may not be included in any
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