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From: csk017@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaVision on CNN today!!  Watch it!
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Date: 10 Dec 90 17:31:28 GMT
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In article <1990Dec09.210816.20342@hoss.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.....  :-)


> 
> <<<=================--------- Cheap Ad ---------===================<<<
> Phil Dietz                       SWL Lincoln    565 MEGS! 2 lines
> 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu         (402)421-1963  AMIGA, IBM, MAC, GIFS
>     IBM'ers and Mac'ers are shopping for a life.  Amiga the best!


This is all well and good BUT... did they actually _SAY_ that Amigas were
controlling?  There are too many non-amigans out there who won't recognize
a 2000 (even with a keyboard) and that is exactly what we need, more non-amiga
people to realize what our machine can do, and what it could do 5 years ago!

It is not good enough for us to know that the Amiga is being used in many
places... it must be shown to everyone who insists on using the expensive
outdated IBM stuff and the cheaper-then-ever-before-yet-still-way-too-expensive
Macintosh.  Don't get me wrong, I use IBM and Macs in my job, I would just
prefer to be using my Amiga!

I do have one fear about C-A advertising, while I would very much like to see
the Amiga accepted for the capable machine it is I do not want to see adverts
like the nauseating Macintosh adds... It seems I can't open our school news-
paper without being bashed by a full page add about how the Mac can think like 
me!  BLECH!  The TV adds are even worse!

We take you now, back to the regularly scheduled next vs amiga, BSD vs SVR4
war. 

Brian Heil                                           //  AMIGARGNUGEN
bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu                          //  It's what makes
(csk017@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu temporarily)         \X/  a computer an Amiga!
bheil@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu