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From: mcc@moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: YAAS (yet another amiga spotting)
Message-ID: <2429@moscom.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 91 13:30:29 GMT
References: <78498@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1177@sjfc.UUCP> <1990Dec22.081949.2175@nas.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: mcc@moscom.UUCP (Mike Corbett)
Organization: Moscom Corp., E. Rochester, NY
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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...

I have served on the advisory committee for our local community access TV
station for three years now.  We have two Amigas in constant use there.
One, an A1000 with an old 1300 genlock is hooked in to broadcast the community
bulletin board.  The other is an A2000 with a Super Gen genlock.  This one
is used by our program director, Jane Bartell, to create the bulletin board
pages and as a character generator for in-house produced videos.

TV*Text and TV*Show are used for the bulletin board and Deluxe Video is
primarily used for character generation.  We have recently upgraded to Deluxe
Paint III, so as Jane becomes more familiar with its capabilities that will
become more used in the video titling.

When I started there the only thing they were doing with the computers was
using TextCraft as a scrolling bulletin board.  Now, using only the limited
capabilities in TV*Text Jane is including marvelous artwork that she does
herself.  I am continually amazed at the quality of that artwork considering
the fact that TV*Text is not a paint program.

Since the visual appearance of the bulletin board has improved so greatly
Jane has been almost overwhelmed by the new volume of requests for
announcements.  This is good news to the town of Penfield government because
it means that people are starting to pay attention to what we are doing.

I would like to ask the net if anyone out there knows of other community
access stations that are using Amigas as part of daily life and what they
are doing with them.


Mike

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