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From: ST9@jane.uh.edu (Rich Bainter AKA Pug)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA Fading?
Message-ID: <4964@jane.uh.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 18:38:38 GMT
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Organization: University of Houston
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> (* low power flame on *)
> What marvelously interesting opinions.  You would never know that the amiga
> was 'fading' around here.  Our user group's membership is up, interest is high,
> and there are more and more people who actually know what an amiga is!
> Every year there are more and more amigas on our campus and there are rumors
> of the university taking an interest in them.
> (* low power flame off *)

Well, down here in Houston, it is much different.  HALPC has 10k members.  We
are down to 2 user groups with perhaps 150 combined members.  There is a
definite sense of malaise.  Several of the "power" users who drove the scene
have gone on to 386 machines where they "can make some money" off their
hobbies/hacking.  I made a big push on the Amiga.  It didn't work out.  Now my
Amiga gathers dust while I make a living programming on other machines (36 +
PC's) and go to school for a degree in Comp Sci on Vax/Unix boxes/Macs.

We never go much advertising from CBM and we only have one full service dealer
left.  It is doing well (in part because it is next to NASA.)
---
Stephen McLeod (aka Bandolar)