Saxonia Issue 02 Part 037

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· 5 years ago

  

That huge Commodore logo 
By Rumrunner/VOID 
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From 1990 to 1995-1996 I used to stay a week or two in Germany together 
with my parents during the summer. There were two places we used to stay, 
Wassersleben, just south of the Danish border, perhaps it took fifteen 
minutes to walk to the border, and another place called Laboe, which was 
outside Kiel. 

Now, just south of the border (that means on the German side) there were 
many shops, mostly owned by Danes. It's wellknown that Norwegians go to 
Sweden to buy beer, Swedes go to Denmark and Danes go to Germany, because 
of the prices. However, there were also some computershops in this area. 
One of them, if I remember correctly had the usual beer and liqour and 
some food on the ground floor, but in the next floor, there was a 
computer shop. Well, computer shop is perhaps exaggerating, as they had 
mostly games, but on the wall outside, there was a huge C= logo with 
Commodore spelt beside it. As we all know, Commodore hung up the phone 
in 1994, but this logo stayed on the wall some years after that. The 
shop was closed down, however, perhaps the owners were of the same 
enthusiastic type that I am, they didn't want to continue with 
pc-products. Another solution is ofcourse that they earned little on the 
shop and stopped it because of that. 

Well, I would like to know what happened to this logo. Is it still there? 
Perhaps I should go on a little raid there sometime. Having such a logo 
on the wall outside my home would make every pc in the area put up the 
bluescreen forever. 

Perhaps there are some German or Danish scenepeople who want to undertake 
the task of investigating this matter. Can I hope for an interesting, 
let's say travelguide in the next Jurassic Pack or Eurochart?