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From: bscott@isis.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga spotted on NOVA - Is USGS using Amigas?
Summary: Government Amiga users
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.111628.17519@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 11:16:28 GMT
References: <29338@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Nov14.004647.25327@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: bscott@isis.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Organization: The Raster Image
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In article <1990Nov14.004647.25327@ecst.csuchico.edu> gdunlap@ecst.csuchico.edu (RANXEROX) writes:
>     Yes, the USGS DID use Amigas for their San Andreas fault presentation.

 The Forest Service is also using them, at least over here in Region 2.  I
used to work for the local RO (still do at times, I occaisionally provide
video effects for the guy I used to work for) and have been offered a job
(well, I'm the front runner anyhow) to help them set up this super-enhanced
$12,000 Amiga setup they've purchased for a project.  I'd be flown to 
Wyoming for two weeks (at exceptional pay + all expenses and per diem)
to configure things and teach them how to use the software. 

The Amiga includes (if I can remember everything) a 28 (?) Mhz '030 with a 
total of 7 megs RAM, FlickerFixer and Nec 3D, '286 Bridgecard with VGA
and a '386 accelerator (to run Xenix), Framegrabber, Supergen, 170 meg
HD, a Syquest, a Paintjet, and probably more that I've forgotten.  The
project is a computer-aided mapping of the insect damage which has occured
to Yellowstone as an indirect result of the '88 fires.  There is a 3000UX
involved somewhere, I think they're having someone in Colorado Springs 
port something over from Xenix to SVR4.  Anyway it'd be fun to work with
this machine for FREE (though I'm not going to mention that to them...)!  

And the word is spreading.  There is a small conference on their computer
net for Amiga users, and a few people in the computer department use them
at home.  Of course, I don't take any credit for this even though I've 
worked there on and off for three years extolling the virtues of our 
favorite machine... 

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