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#A1200 Bundle

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#209069From: Betty Clay/SYSOPAug 19, 1995 10:03 PM
Productivity, multimedia and entertainment Software to be bundled with Amiga computers Bensheim, 15/08/95 The Amiga 1200, fitted with a 170 Mb harddrive and two megabytes of RAM will be bundled with the SCALA MM 300 Multimedia authoring software. With this combination, the user will be able to do high quality multimedia presentations out of the box at the advantageous price of 499 UKP. Some well known Amiga productivity software packages will also be part of this offer. The A1200 is also available without harddrive but bundled with the productivity software, except for SCALA at a price of 399 UKP. The Amiga 4000T, fitted with a SCSI harddrive of 540MB or 1GB and 6 MB of RAM will be available with SCALA MM 300. This is the perfect package for those who want to make professional-looking presentations in a quality unmatched on any other system at that price. Contact : Gilles Bourdin Amiga Technologies Berliner Ring 89 D-64625 Bensheim Tel +49 6252 709 195 Fax +49 6252 709 520 email gbo@amiga-tech.de —Betty
#209074From: JIM WALLISAug 19, 1995 11:05 PM
Betty, Now the question that all of us on *this* side of the pond are waiting to have answered: Who is the U.S. Distributor? A dealer network is set up with no distribution? When will dealers be announced and how? (assuming that there will be new dealerships in the U.S.) Can someone upload a list? And finally a THANK YOU for all of the existing Amiga dealers! I'll check with you first! Jim Jaywal Productions, Inc.
#209143From: Ray RobertsAug 20, 1995 1:28 PM
CEI is U.S. distributor for Amiga Technologies. Current Amiga dealers (including myself) and any new dealers interesting in selling Amiga's will supply the N. American market. BTW…CEI will also be S. American distributor as they were during C= times. Ray Tronix Micro Systems
#209147From: JIM WALLISAug 20, 1995 1:51 PM
>>CEI is U.S. distributor for Amiga Technologies. I wonder why that wasn't stated, and even said that AT/ESCOM is looking for an "Investor/Distributor" (if I read it right.) Will CEI continue to sell retail? (I bought everything from Alex) Why not lobby for a section in AmigaVendor that lists Dealers or at least, post an *Autorized Dealer* list in the library? As stated, I plan to support my local dealer when possible! Thanks for your reply, awaiting your next! <g> Jim Jaywal Productions, Inc.
#209222From: Jeff WalkerAug 21, 1995 4:48 AM
Petro specifically said that currently AT had no US distributor and that he was looking for one or two companies to not only distribute Amiga in the US but to also invest in the product. Jeff Walker, JAM magazine jwalker@cix.compulink.co.uk
#209247From: JIM WALLISAug 21, 1995 12:57 PM
Jeff, >>AT had no US distributor and that he was looking for one or two companies >>to not only distribute Amiga in the US but to also invest in the product. That's the way I read it! So. AMIGA DEALERS what is CEI telling you? They haven't answered my calls. Jim Jaywal Productions, Inc.
#209310From: Jeff WalkerAug 22, 1995 5:19 AM
>> That's the way I read it! And that's the way I heard it, three times. Jeff Walker, JAM magazine jwalker@cix.compulink.co.uk
#209192From: Marion J DelandAug 20, 1995 7:59 PM
Ray, >>CEI is U.S. distributor for Amiga Technologies. << Petro Tyschtschenko didn't seem to think so. "Still looking for a potential distributor," he said. Marion Deland CROSSINGS – Newsletter for Amiga/PC/Mac compatibility
#209273From: Asha DeVelderAug 21, 1995 6:48 PM
Ray, <CEI is U.S. distributor for Amiga Technologies.> Are you sure about this? Did you hear it from anyone BESIDES CEI? From what I've read, here, on Usenet, and on Fido, CEI is NOT the official NA distributor and may not (they haven't behaved well lately)…….???? Asha @}–`–,-
#209298From: Ian J. EinmanAug 22, 1995 1:17 AM
Escom has fairly well implied they are looking for anyone BUT CEI to do it. Their comments were sort of like, "We're looking for a serious North American company to seriously market the Amiga, seriously, and we haven't found one that is actually serious." Basically they implied any companies they already had discussions with were not what they wanted, (read CEI is not what they want) and yes, they may indeed still be sore that CEI, by bidding and counterbidding at all, drove the price up 5 million bucks. Whether Alex is serious or not is not my say, I do not really know the goings on behind the scenes, but from what I can tell, Escom was actually letting CEI make a proposal, but apparently did not like what they saw so they are still looking.
#209165From: Betty Clay/SYSOPAug 20, 1995 4:11 PM
Looks like we'll have to wait 'two more weeks' Jim. —Betty
#209172From: JIM WALLISAug 20, 1995 4:54 PM
>>Looks like we'll have to wait 'two more weeks' Jim. Oh Boy! Jim Jaywal Productions, Inc.
#209103From: Bart Van BockstaeleAug 20, 1995 5:17 AM
Betty, This sounds great! Thanks for the info Bart Van Bockstaele at 100574.2352@compuserve.com … On AutoPilot and Amiga all the way from Belgium NOT from Mars!…