Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!cbmvax!bj From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaVision on CNN today!! Watch it! Message-ID: <16392@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 9 Dec 90 23:29:57 GMT References: <1990Dec5.041002.453@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1990Dec5.205822.216@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1366@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> <1990Dec9.203048.7679@unlv.edu> <1990Dec09.210816.20342@hoss.unl.edu> Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 37 In article <1990Dec09.210816.20342@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes: >Today on CNN (Sunday the 9th Dec), they had a segment describing how >Atlanta used a Powerful multimedia station to persuade their city into >becoming the next Olympic city. It had a neat 3d touch panel of the >entire Olympic village. When one would press a building, all sorts of >information about it would come whizzing by the screen. Beautiful 3d >graphics, MIDI background sound. The show was PROFESSIONAL. > >Then they described how Georgia Tech put it together. They explained >about the touch pad, the MIDI equipment, the 2 laserdisks and players, >ans talked about it being driven by two multitasking computers. But any >amigan could see, that the two computers that were driving it were >A2000's without keyboards..... :-) > The "segment" in question was the opening story on "Science and Technology Week". I don't believe that Amigavision played a role, however. I could be wrong, though. The exact wording was " .... two accessory computers. A commercially available personal computer with multitasking capability integrates and drives the system." I take this to mean that there is one Amiga (an A2x00) coordinating things and that the "accessory" computers are not Amigas. I only saw the one unit (and I just reran the tape here about 5 times :)) Did my heart good :) bj >Phil Dietz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Brian Jackson Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga Inc. GEnie: B.J. | | bj@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com or ...{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!bj | | "My beer comes from farther away than your beer." | -----------------------------------------------------------------------