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From: bgriffin@mentor.com (Brian Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: YAAS (yet another amiga spotting)
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.002121.13012@mentor.com>
Date: 19 Dec 90 00:21:21 GMT
References: <78498@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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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...
>
>BTW, for those in Bloomington, IN it was on channel 29 (if you have TCI).
>

I've seen this more then once on Columbia Cable here in Oregon.  They use the
amiga on several channels.  There is more then one Community Calendar and a
continuously scrolling TV guide which also displays a preview video of
available cable channels in the upper left corner.  There's a channel that
runs a slide show of screens with info about Columbia Cable such as upcoming
special events, an explaination of your bill, how to hook up a VCR to cable,
etc.  And there's a Pay-Per-View preview channel that displays the titles and
event numbers for PPV movies while showing a preview of these movies, again in
the upper left corner.  (can you say genlock?)

This is all done with Amigas!

>AMH
>
>
>* Andy Hartman       | I'd deny half of this crap anyway!| "Somedays, you just
>* Indiana University |   amhartma@silver.ucs.indiana.edu |  can't get rid of a
>*    //	 Amiga Man   |   AMHARTMA@rose.ucs.indiana.edu   |  bomb!" 
>*  \X/	 At Large!   |        or just "Hey putz!"        | - Batman (original)

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