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Re: fault Amiga 3000
« on: November 27, 2004, 09:23:35 PM »
Hey bro! I've an A3000 and I live in Athens.
There probably is one guy doing Amiga and Commodore repairs in Athens. You can try 210-9954855. The place is on Vouligmenis street, near Dafni a bit after Panagiotarakos. You cannot miss it, there's a massive COMMODORE sign on the bulding's front side.

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Re: fault Amiga 3000
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2004, 11:08:59 AM »
Actually that was/is the last official place where one could get his Amiga repaired.
The place materialized a bit before the Greek Commodore agent (MEMOX) went out of business due to low volume Amiga sales and mismanagement in the early nineties (that happened before Commodore went under). The guy who owned MEMOX offered the ownership of the service department to the last Amiga tech-guy working there; the tech accepted the offer. Some time later the service dept evolved in a new venture that would import Amiga Tech A1200s and A4000Ts (and they did).
We all know what happened next. I did get some of my Amigas repaired ther up until about a year ago but haven't checked with them since as I rarely use the Amigas any more. What they also did was sell and repair mobile phones.

The place was packed with all sorts of Amiga and Commodore hardware - nothing exotic - but lots of bits and pieces from the late seventies/early eighties (PET and Plus4 etc) to late Amiga stuff. Interesting place for an Amiga user who's never seen so much stuff in one place.
A friend of mine told me that a few months ago all that went to the trash can. Had I known earlier...
Another interesting thing about that place were the Amiga posters on the walls (German stuff from 1987 and later-date english stuff) as well as some paintings that depicted well known corporate logos like Mercedes-Benz, Nivea, Campari etc that had been transformed to Commodore logos (imagine a Nivea can with Commodore written on it etc).

Btw there were about 120,000 Amigas sold in Greece through the official channels. A similar amount was sold through inofficial channels (gray imports etc). Greece has always been accounted in Amiga sales figures as part of Commodore UK that's why it has never appeared on the Amiga-sales-map (like the one found on Rainer Benda's site).

If you ever come back to Greece, email me (skyrunnerATfreemailDOTgr) ;-)
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