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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: More Commodore rumors
Message-ID: <947@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 91 18:42:03 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.204143.4124@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1991Mar8.232628.19106@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Mar8.232628.19106@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991Mar8.204143.4124@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) writes:
>>
>>The March '91 issue of .info's rumor mill column says that CBM may
>>be talking with Sony Corp. about Sony buying CBM since video is such
>>a hot market for the Amiga.
>
>Why would Sony want to buy Commodore? They want to get into the
>computer business? They sell video equipment! The two companies
>complement each other well enough without becoming one.

All these rumors about Sony may stem from some real negotiations that
have taken place, but had a quite different subject:
Yes, Sony is now also in the computer business. They build one wonderfull
AT notebook computer. And Commodore Germany has the exclusive right to
distribute this piece under its own name as "C 286-LT". "Exclusive"
means here that this will not be sold to any other OEM computer
manufacturer in Germany. - Perhaps the same is valid for whole Europe,
but I can't swear. - So there are real contacts between Commodore and
Sony, and they are really promising for good business in future. Like,
on the CeBIT faire we now show the next model of that notebook with the
386SX!

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