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From: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga's Enemy: Another View
Message-ID: <12033@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 09:50:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.12033
Posted: Sat May 16 09:50:56 1987
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Reply-To: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: My two cents, for what it's worth

In article <4924@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:


>Yeah, yeah!!  I am *appalled* at the lack of enthusiasm/support for
>the Amiga, from those who are supposed to be "authorized Amiga
>representatives."

		[some deleted ignorant-dealer quotes]

>Hey, C-A, you ought to take a close look at the "salespeople" you're
>depending on to help sell the Amiga.  Many of them are totally
>ignorant of the capabilities of the Amiga.  Some of them are actually
>strongly biased *against* the machine. 


This reminds me of something a friend of mine in Philly related to me
recently.  He works for a small computer store specializing in Apple and IBM
products.  A while back they use to deal in Amigas, but when the "free 
monitor" came around, so many dealers in Philly lost so much money they 
dropped the Amiga.

That's old news.  What recently happened was he moved from part time to full
time work at the store.  When he did this he was REQUIRED to attend a course
sponsered by Apple (6 days I think) at which he had hands on experience with
the Mac and Mac II.  They taught him the machine, or at least its finer points
and the way in which to sell it, the markets to aim for, the software to demo,
and so forth.

The point is that he is a hacker, and is pro-Amiga til death.  He admits 
though, that he is very impressed by Apples dedication to their dealers 
and their product line.  He wished CBM was this way.


So do I.



-- 
		"Truth is false and logic lost..."
					- Neil Peart
	(who at the time didn't realize he was talking about RU)
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