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Steve, I think that's great news about Merisel and CBM. It can only help sales and that will benefit all of us. I just hope they don't forget to market the Amiga as a Personal Computer, also. Since they're taking over the entire product line, I don't want them to concentrate on the PC clones and CDTV, and just use vertical marketing strategy for the Amiga. They should push the Amiga as a personal computer for home and small business use. The logical successor to the C64 and C128. I believe they sold 800,000 C64's last year, and the Amiga only has 3 million sold in seven years. Many Amiga owners have more than one Amiga, so that figure doesn't even represent 3 million people. Most Amigas are sold outside the U.S. So figuring the U.S. sales and accounting for the multi-Amiga user, I estimate there are only about 700,000 Amiga users in the U.S. That comes to about 13,725 Amiga users per state, counting Washington D.C. That's really a pathetic figure. Anything Merisel can to to improve that figure will be great. Thanks for posting the news. Dom Fontana