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From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End)
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Subject: Re: Amiga spotted on NOVA - Is USGS using Amigas?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 04:11:41 GMT
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In article <29338@boulder.Colorado.EDU> judd@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Stephen Judd) writes:
=-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

	Actually, earlier in the show, before the sequence in which the screen
was shown, you could see the entire A2000 box on which the monitor was sitting.

=-screen, and I'll also assume he has a flicker-fixer.

	Since you were presumably watching this on a normal TV with interlaced
display, I don't think you would have been able to tell.

=-Anyways, it was nice to see an Amiga being used in a clever way for
=-government research.

	Of course, the guy who worked for the Navy squandered his defense
dollars on a Mac II. :-)