Deja vu
Mark Moxon
cancelled because the company was being shut down. Instead all us loyal
workers hit a pub in downtown Melbourne and had a drunken wake. It was the
end of Acorn in Australia.
As I was about to leave New Zealand in early 1997 the decision was taken to
shut down the Acorn New Zealand operation. It was the end of Acorn in New
Zealand.
And now that I'm back in the UK, Acorn UK has, for all intents and purposes
closed down too. Third time round, it's not a lot of fun: I'm starting to get
paranoid.
But one thing was true of all of these sad closures: the staff were all
dedicated, especially when you consider that every one of then, British or
Antipodean, believed in the product and knew they had to fight against the
larger platforms for their survival. I have nothing but serious respect for
anyone who ever worked for Acorn and who truly believed.
And here's an optimistic note. When I was at Acorn User we used to joke about
what would happen if Acorn folded, and the official line was that the
magazine would have a good two more years of profitable business, after which
it was impossible to tell. I would think that's still the case, and I know
that Steve and co. will make a bloody good go of it. And if they can survive,
I'm sure a nunber of third party suppliers can too.
Bless 'em all. And thanks for the memories...
Best wishes,
Mark
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Ian Fitzgerald
Mark Moxon <ma...@moxon.net> wrote:
Yes, but thankyou for your help when you were with us in Melbourne, Mark.
we still use Acorns, and our secretaries, who have used all platforms,
still praise Acorns! The Acorn community has a feeling which no other
platform can engender.
I believe there is still time to organise and protest - this has been done
in many areas not just with computers.
A protest to Acorn UK is required.
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Melbourne Australia
Acorn RiscPC SA233
Andrew P. Harmsworth Esq.
Indeed.
When I was a lad... I remember watching "Troubleshooter", with Sir John
Harvey-Jones. One of the first progs was "Sir John visits Apricot". Remember
them? The result of the program was that they had a profitable business
fixing machines that went wrong, but that they should stop making them, as
this was losing them heaps of cash.
I'm sure that had Sir John been called in to Acorn a few years ago, we
wouldn't be where we are today.
APH
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Mike Kinghan
Andrew P. Harmsworth Esq. <dna...@ni.edam.maps> wrote:
> In article <ant180016868JHn&@argcg21.argonet.co.uk>, Mark Moxon
> <ma...@moxon.net> wrote:
[snip]
> When I was a lad... I remember watching "Troubleshooter", with Sir John
> Harvey-Jones. One of the first progs was "Sir John visits Apricot". Remember
> them? The result of the program was that they had a profitable business
> fixing machines that went wrong, but that they should stop making them, as
> this was losing them heaps of cash.
>
> I'm sure that had Sir John been called in to Acorn a few years ago, we
> wouldn't be where we are today.
>
> APH
>
You mean Acorn would have stopped making Acorns, but they'd still be
fixing them?
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