Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!isgate!krafla!kvj From: kvj@rhi.hi.is (Kristjan Valur Jonsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Acorn Compters Ltd. (to the rescue!) Message-ID: <2776@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: 13 Feb 91 18:47:37 GMT References: <1991Feb10.221355.22525@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb11.140700.3322@maths.tcd.ie> Organization: University of Iceland Lines: 25 In <1991Feb11.140700.3322@maths.tcd.ie> chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes) writes: >I live in Ireland. Next door to England. I've never seen an ad. for Acorn in >the Irish press anywhere. Until recently Acorn machines just couldn't be >bought here because there were no importers, and as a result no dealers... >There've been a few open days around Dublin recently, and the only reason >there's been a significant Acorn presence at any of them is because the local >user group gets a few members to bring their machines along - if they didn't, >nobody here would ever have heard of the Arc. Acorn's PR are stunning me >still. Until this discussion came up, I thought the nonexistent publicity of acorn products here in Iceland were to be entirely blamed on the local importer's lack of business skills. But is seems that the problem stems from Acorn themselves. How utterly ridiculous. Those who own Arcs here are usually old BBC hackers who understood the merit of the BBC micro and upgraded when the Arc came along. Nothing has been done recruit new users, so only a few chosen souls know about the Arc. If it is Acorn's policy to concentrate on the BBC (micro) established markets then I they must be very narrow minded. It namely concerns the user very much whether his machine is commonly owned or at least commonly known about or not. Acorn surey has a lot to catch up with on the PR side of matters. Kristjan