[iyonix-support] Re: Kenilworth
- From: Xavier Louis Tardy <xltardy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 13:17:24 +0200
2012/5/26 Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> In message <4FC0EB00.7030203@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> on 26 May 2012 "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 26/05/2012 07:07, Alan Leighton wrote:
> >> Great excitement with the BeagleBoard and the ARMini at £599 including
> >> Vat . Gosh when you think the Iyonix was over £1000 it is a new dawn
> >> for RISC OS enthusiasts!
>
> > Great to see a recession hasn't stopped margins reaching record levels.
> > Gosh the Iyonix would have been closer to £2000 with that sort of mark
> up!
>
> Acorn had more opportunity to pile things high but were never known to
> sell things cheap! (Nor Apple for that matter!)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
> --
> Andrew Pinder
>
Sadly it took them 5 years to start selling their machines in Germany.
Who knows where Acorn would be, had they started earlier.
It's a pity their past experience with the Beeb in the U.S. made them so
reluctant to leave the U.K.
There was a real strong interest for the Archimedes, you know.
For example in France, the main magazine about the Atari ST, published
articles about the machine, as it was an obvious choice
for ST owners who did not want to buy an Amiga.
Have a look here, issue 21 page 18.
http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=6
Acorn missed huged opportunities in my country.
I remember it very well.
When you know that SVM (Sciences et Vie Micro), the main all machines
French monthly magazine, made its cover in 1987 with a huge picture of the
Archimedes, with this title 'Archimedes : the fastest and cheapest computer
in the world (under 10 000 francs)', with a full and elogious review of the
machine ...
So much for the alleged French anti English attitude.
I think you, U.K. citizens, never understood that very well.
I'm bitter when I remember all this.
Wasted opportunities.
When you think of the number of colleges, high schools, public or private,
laboratories, universities, where Acorn could have sold their machines, as
it was needed at the time to get power at an affordable price.
I'll always be angry at Acorn for superbly ignoring continental Europe
until it was too late and the Acorn machines could not compete with cheaper
and cheaper and every month more powerful PCs.
I must say my comments are not a personal attack against the U.K or its
people, its just at a blatantly stupid marketing policy.
If at least Acorn had chosen a proper reseller in France, but no : they
managed to get 'tied' with ASHIV, which was an inefficient, under financed
small company.
Meeting its boss once (when I was 17 or 18 I remember) was enough to
understand he wouldn't do anything to promote the machines, and would be
happy selling one every 2 weeks.
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