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From: judd@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Stephen Judd)
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Subject: Amiga spotted on NOVA - Is USGS using Amigas?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 03:20:14 GMT
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Did anybody catch this week's NOVA?  Some guy with USGS (I didn't catch his
name, but his beard is possibly neater than Cliff Stoll's haircut ;-) was
showing various patterns of activity along the San Andreas Fault.  They only
had a shot of the monitor, but sure enough, there in the lower right corner
was the red power light of a 1084 (he even had his volume/sharpness/etc
cover open).  A further shot of the keyboard suuuure looked like an Amiga
keyboard.  Does anybody know what kind of setup he has, or what sort of
software he was using?  I'll assume it was an Amiga 2000, but the stuff he
was showing on it was pretty slick - he had a very detailed map of northern
California, and every time he pressed a key it would show a red area where
areas of fault activity had occured, along with the date, and some more
info was displayed elsewhere in the screen.  It had to be an interlace 
screen, and I'll also assume he has a flicker-fixer.
Anyways, it was nice to see an Amiga being used in a clever way for
government research.

					Steve
--
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