| From: | Gerald Mellor |
| Date: | 2 Jul 2001 at 21:33:32 |
| Subject: | Re: PCs and other nasty things (was Re: Re: Has anyone heard news of the new "Settlers"?) |
On 02-Jul-01, Jim Cadwallader wrote:
>> Perhaps Amiga should drop the name to escape the blinkered view
>> that the rest of the world has of the '80's Commodore games machine
>> that went bust'?
> I have noticed how time has so diminished the Amiga name that most
> people don't know of it let alone have a tarnished view. Two of the
> FreeServe helpdesk people I spoke to had _never_ heard the term ...
> "Yes, but what IS it, a PDA" (although one'd heard of the
> Archimedes). I was checking out local IT courses, the woman I spoke
> to similarly had never heard the term. In a quirky way this could be
> a benefit for new retail branding.
I can understand how that could happen in other countries where the
Amiga wasn't so popular (countries in North America, for example), but
in the UK? For several years in the late 80s and early 90s the Amiga
was one of the most popular home computers in this country. I find it
hard to believe that anyone over 20 wouldn't have heard of them, or do
people really have such short memories?
Regards
Gerry
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