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		mattl on April 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters... BSB was first (Squarials!) and Sky second and then they merged pretty early on. Rumbelows went out of business, many stores became Escom and they too went out of business pretty quickly.

memsom on April 12, 2024 [–]

Escom acquired the Amiga brand and distributed Amiga hardware (till they went out of business.)

mattl on April 12, 2024 | [–]

Commodore brand too.

I very nearly bought an Escom Amiga in May 1996 but got a Pentium 60 Commodore branded PC instead.

By July Escom was done.

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