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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: YAAS (yet another amiga spotting)
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.233100.27262@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 20 Dec 90 23:31:00 GMT
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In article <1177@sjfc.UUCP> bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg) writes:
>In article <78498@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman - AmigaMan) writes:
>>I was flipping through channels the other day when I went past what I thought
>>was an AmigaDos window.  I searched back to the channel and was surprised
>>(and very pleased) to see an AmiDos window on what is usually the Community
>>Calendar.  Whoever is in charge of the calendar forgot to switch the calendar
>>to the foreground.  The AmigaDos window was prominently displayed for about
>>6 or 7 hours!  What great exposure for the Amiga...
>>
>>* Andy Hartman       | I'd deny half of this crap anyway!| "Somedays, you just
>
>I've got one even better!!
>
>One of our Community channels here in Fairport NY (Suburb of Rochester),
>did something like that once.
>
>It was dicovered by my girlfriend, Toni, in the next room while flipping
>channels, she whizzed by a KICKSTART HAND on the TV saying "Oh, Brett's (me)
>is just working on his computer again...hey wait a minute..."
>
>She called me in and showed me, it was pretty funny to see that the
>stations A1000 had crashed or something and was showing the INSERT
>KICKSTART HAND for about 6 hours.
>
>It's too bad their graphics really, really suck during their on air times.
>I was thinking about trying to get a job with them and show them just
>what they can be doing!
>
>==Brett     ...uupsi!cci632!sjfc!bpv9073

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In article <1177@sjfc.UUCP> bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg) writes:
>In article <78498@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Andy Hartman - AmigaMan) writes:
>>I was flipping through channels the other day when I went past what I thought
>>was an AmigaDos window.  I searched back to the channel and was surprised
>>(and very pleased) to see an AmiDos window on what is usually the Community
>>Calendar.  Whoever is in charge of the calendar forgot to switch the calendar
>>to the foreground.  The AmigaDos window was prominently displayed for about
>>6 or 7 hours!  What great exposure for the Amiga...
>>
>>* Andy Hartman       | I'd deny half of this crap anyway!| "Somedays, you just
>
>I've got one even better!!
>
>One of our Community channels here in Fairport NY (Suburb of Rochester),
>did something like that once.
>
>It was dicovered by my girlfriend, Toni, in the next room while flipping
>channels, she whizzed by a KICKSTART HAND on the TV saying "Oh, Brett's (me)
>is just working on his computer again...hey wait a minute..."
>
>She called me in and showed me, it was pretty funny to see that the
>stations A1000 had crashed or something and was showing the INSERT
>KICKSTART HAND for about 6 hours.
>
>It's too bad their graphics really, really suck during their on air times.
>I was thinking about trying to get a job with them and show them just
>what they can be doing!
>
>==Brett     ...uupsi!cci632!sjfc!bpv9073

	Yeah, one evening I flipped to channel 44 (now 59) - our local
cabel channel quide. Instead of the usual list of what channels were playing 
what at what time, the entire screen was blank except for a flashing red
box at the top. Sound familiar?

	It was very annoying that no one at the cable company knew of the
problem. I wanted to find out a show's start time, but couldn't because
I had opted not to receive their monthly channel guide - waste of paper.
I didn't sit there and watch it, but I did check it about two hours later
and it was still that way. What great exposure for the Amiga... :-(

						Jeff

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Jeff S. Dickson                                 jdickson@zook.jpl.nasa.gov