Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!thad
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga spotted on NOVA - Is USGS using Amigas?
Message-ID: <35696@cup.portal.com>
Date: 7 Nov 90 09:06:35 GMT
References: <29338@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <241@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 25

bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End) in
<241@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu> writes:

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.

Staff from the USGS (Menlo Park, CA) are regular attendees at FAUG (First
Amiga Users' Group), and they've given several presentations: one about the
Loma Prieta Earthquake (for which they're (the USGS) selling a video tape),
and another concerning the world mapping project (or something to that effect).

For what it's worth, the film crew of COMPUTER CHRONICLES filmed tonight's
FAUG meeting as part of their upcoming special on the A3000 to be aired
sometime later this month on your local Pledge Break Station (PBS :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]