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GATEWAY2000 ACQUIRES AMIGA TECH.!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sultan Hassan

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Mar 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/27/97
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gateway acquires assets of AMIGA Technologies, GmbH


i've found this on http://www.gateway2000.com and http://www.digitronic.ch


NORTH SIOUX CITY, S.D., March 27, 1997 - Gateway 2000, Inc. (Nasdaq: GATE) today announced that the company has
made an offer to acquire the
assets of AMIGA Technologies including all patents, trademarks and trade names. The company is a subsidiary of
ESCOM AG, a German-based computer
company that went into bankruptcy in July of 1996. AMIGA led the industry in combining computer graphics,
animation, and film sequences with stereo sound
known today as multimedia.

The offer has been accepted by the court-appointed Administrator in Bankruptcy in Germany acting on behalf of
AMIGA. The agreement is subject to
regulatory approval.

"This acquisition is good news for Gateway and customers of AMIGA," said Rick Snyder, president and COO of Gateway
2000. "It will strengthen our
intellectual property position and invigorate a company that has been a pioneer in multimedia solutions and
operating systems technology."

AMIGA Technologies will be renamed AMIGA International. The company will operate as a separate business unit and
will retain its current president, Petro
Tyschtschenko, who will work to develop new products for the AMIGA market.

"Gateway 2000 will give us new life and energy for the future," said Tyschtschenko.

About Gateway 2000
Gateway 2000, Inc., a Fortune 500 company founded in 1985, is a global leader in the direct marketing of PCs. The
company, headquartered in North Sioux
City, South Dakota, has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Ireland and Malaysia, and employs over 9,700
people worldwide. Gateway 2000 products
and services consistently win top awards from leading industry publications. In 1996, the company shipped 1.9
million systems and reported revenues of $5
billion and net income of $250 million.

About AMIGA
Since the introduction of the AMIGA A1000 in 1985, AMIGA has represented the embodiment of the efficient use of
memory and hard drive capacity, while
pioneering industry developments in multimedia, 32-bit multitasking and autoconfiguration.
| Hassan Sultan | University of Geneva|
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