| From: | Robert Cranley |
| Date: | 3 Jul 2001 at 03:33:00 |
| Subject: | Re: PCs and other nasty things (was Re: Re: Has anyone heard news of the new "Settlers"?) |
Hi Gerald,
On 02-Jul-01, you wrote:
> 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?
Well, in Ireland, I rang up an ISP looking for dialup details, and went
through the usual I'm not using Windows, that's why I didn't use your CD
speech, I was asked what computer it was, and I said an Amiga. "Oh" he said,
"I thought they only made Zip drives"
Hmmmmmmmmmmm....
Regards,
Rob
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