A new Dragon for Boots?

BOOT’S the high street retail chain may well pull out of selling the Dragon 32 computer at the end of the Summer.

Boots and Dragon have been negotiating over the future of the machine and it seems likely that the Dragon 32 will be replaced by a new Dragon home computer before Christmas.

Commented Dragon’s chief executive Brian Moore, “To make a stark statement that Boots will not stock the Dragon 32 is to present only one piece of the equation. We are talking to them about replacing it with another machine which we have.”

Althouth Boots is to stock the new machines from Amstrad and a selection of Japanese MSX micros, it will deinitely continue to support the Dragon 32 with software and also sell the Dragon 64.

Said Boot’s Peter Frost: “Dragon computers will continue to feature in our range, whether that is with the 32 or not I cannot say. We are aware of new products from Dragon 32.”

Only a month ago British Home Stores decided to discontinue sales on the 32.