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From: jonabbey@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey)
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Subject: Re: Advertising the Amiga at Universities: Getting Involved
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Date: 29 May 90 07:17:55 GMT
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The user group here at UT put on an Amiga expo a month back or so..
they contacted a lot of people, including local amiga developers
(New Horizons, Byte by Byte), GVP (which offered a board for a doorprize),
Practical Peripherals, and others.  Commodore was contacted, but it was
with less than two weeks notice.  Nonetheless, the local representative
(one of only two in Texas 8-)) did show up with a 2500/30 in tow, and a
splendid time was had by all.  The whole thing was put together by some
very scrappy Amigans in the University Amiga Users Group, but the event
was sponsored by the Computer Science Department as well.

It certainly boosted visibility a bit - currently there are less than
five Amigas on campus in an official capacity.. one in the main microcomputer
lab (an old 1000 with 512k, Workbench/KickStart 1.1 and an extra drive - 
the user group donated a 1.3 kit, and it has a 9600 baud link to the campus
broadband network, so it makes a darn nifty Dnet terminal.. 8-)), and
a couple sitting unused in the electrical engineering dept.

Jonathan Abbey                    (512) 926-5934 | Amiga Programmer Wanna-be 
jonabbey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu        bix: jonabbey +----------------------------- 
The University of Texas at Austin - CS Undergrad | Speaking for myself, at best