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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
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Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines
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Date: 24 Jun 91 16:12:27 GMT
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From article <7471@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, by lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey):
> My boyfriend runs a Paragon BBS off and on when he's got the extra $$$
> to do so. He writes a door program called Castle Dungeon for it that

Tell him that Greg Block, Conference Mail developer, tells him good
luck on deciding which BBS system to run next, and that I think he
should go with Xenolink, to save him some trouble porting Castle
Dungeon.  :)

> computer dealer for the Amiga. Al, the owner of the store and BBS
> system, is going bankrupt selling Amigas. He has recently been posting
> some of the reasons why in the Amiga FidoNet Echomail areas. Some of

Well, firstly.  :)  He's been posting to every Amiga fidonet group on
the Backbone, and he is completely 1) out of line, 2) off topic, and
3) arrogant when listening to the explanations...  It's not like that
everywhere.  It's just the way it's set up, and when that woman went
off on her little errand, a lot of things got messed up.  She's back,
and she's worked out all the problems here.  Everything WILL be fine,
it's just a matter of following things to the letter, which was done
here.  Obviously, Al didn't, but they'll help him straighten
everything out.

And tell him to stop posting all over the place like that.  Not even
MB is that rude.  :)

> Everyone was excited and went home to wait and watch. Alas, there were
> many market areas virtually untouched by this "Blitz". Al's area, and
> even here in the Metro Detroit area, saw little, if any, of the ads

They weren't seen in Wisconsin, either, as far as I know.  Milwaukee
hasn't seen anything from C= in a long time.  But things are going
well.  It's a matter of using what you have.

> isn't though and as such he will be closing down. He's fully expecting
> Commodore to pull his dealership status for having the gall to speak
> out about his problems, and with the way Commodore has been the last
> few years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they did.

Spare me, worse has been said to them.  I would be more than
surprised.  And things are changing, slowly but surely.   It's no
longer like it used to be.  And things are picking up, even in Milwaukee.

> converted from Apple with the arrivial of the Amiga. All in all we

So did I.  :)

> shutting down US sales seeing as they couldn't do well here. Couldn't
> do well? They haven't done anything to promote good sales here. Makes

I don't think they'll be shutting down....  I haven't thought that in
a long time.

> I once had big hopes for Commodore and the Amiga, but both seemed
> doomed to stay a second class company with  a second class machine.

If you mean that they won't have IBM's popularity, I'll agree.  But I
think given time it will grow.

> PRAYED it would happen! Whatever HP did with the Amiga, it would STILL
> have been more than what CBM was doing. Same thing with the recent
> Sony rumors. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE will someone with some
> advertising BRAINS and interest in advanced R&D PLEASE BUY OUT
> COMMODORE and get this thing MOVING in SOME sort of direction!?!?

And lose the direction they're beginning to have?  No, I think they're
just beginning to begin what they promised...

The Amiga is just now getting the recognition, power, and strength in
the market that it needs, and C= is finally getting the kinds of
profits they'll need to start running a good campaign.  I'm expecting
a HUGE CDTV rollout, that's where they're going to put their earnings,
I think.  And if that goes well, which I think it will, it will be
better for the Amiga as well.

Greg

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