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From: bbs00244@uafcseg.uucp (Viet Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga's @ UC San Diego
Keywords: CBM demo's Amiga
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Date: 1 Sep 90 02:13:33 GMT
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Man, the last place I'd see the Amiga demo was at
my  school's mac fanatic bookstore (PriceCenter).

About a week ago two CBM reps and two Amiga dudes
from the local Amiga store brought in fully loaded
Amiga3000 and A2530 (4Mbs each w/ 100MB hd full of
demo's) w/ Nec 3D and 1950 multisyncs and the cute
little speakers.  They ran the usual crowd pleasers
NewTek Demo Reels, some Anims, and AmigaVision.
The mac droids were stunned, speechless.  The new 
slick 2.0 WB looked really cool on the multisyncs.
There was a crowd of twenty people building.
Then, for the ultimate kicker.   John Gretz, the
CBM Higher Ed. Rep says "OK, give me your Macintosh
software"  He boots up AMAX on the 2530 and it runs
gracefully Microsoft Word, and everything else they
threw at him.   I heard one mac noid said "Wow, the
screen refresh is faster than my Mac II!"  
You're typical textbook Amiga demo.

The manager was very impressed but wanted to know
the # of Amiga people on campus.  I believe he
was also worried that the Amiga500 may cut into the
Mac sales.

Incidentally, our SuperComputer Center have two
A3000's in the Scientific Visualization lab.
I was informed that they may do a Unix demo there
in October.    


It seems CBM has already gotten on the 
road show demoing the Amiga at various Universities
across California (and I surmise the rest of the nation)
Wow, I give Howard Diamond a thumbs up!


-Viet Ho
Viet.Ho@samba.acs.unc.edu