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From: lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle)
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Subject: Re: Best Amiga Computer Store??
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Date: 7 Jan 91 13:01:19 GMT
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>Question posed about the best Amiga Store...

OK, I'll bite...

I think the best Amiga Store in the whole USA is:

MicroTech Solutions, Inc.
ChicagoLand's Largest Amiga Dealer.
[In case you are planning to fly in to see it... :-)]
1885 N. Farnsworth Ave.
Suites 6-7-8
Aurora, IL 60540

Here's why they have grown to be ChicagoLand's Largest and [IMHO]
best Amiga Dealer:

1) They, the owners, have never lost sight of their roots.
   The store started out as a Commodore dealership run out 
   of the basement of their house.  They have supported the
   Amiga strongly since before I had an Amiga (three and a half
   years).  The store is founded on service, not glitz. Through
   two moves (the last one to a location right down the street from
   the BIG apple store, Farnsworth Computers), each time to a much
   larger location (now as large as the BIG apple store), they 
   retained their friendly attitude, while increasing their
   professional look.

2) They always have many toys out to play with. No, I don't
   mean games, although they have those too, :-).  Currently,
   MicroTech has a Toster setup with three monitors, input
   video camera running on a 2500/30 with large harddrive and
   six or seven Megs of RAM.  A3000 with videodisk player running
   a neat AmigaVision presentation (from Commodore, I think).
   They also have an Amiga setup with the 4 color grey scale
   monitor.  Of course, they have a few A500's out also.  One
   of the 500's has an ATonce board in it.  Other neat, hooked
   up to Amiga items include: DigiView, laser printer, a few
   color printers.  They also run the cash register off of an Amiga.

3) They run a BBS off an Amiga, the owner of the store is the
   SysOp and he is quite helpful!

I hope that others out there have had similar luck with their
local dealers, but I just don't get that impression from what
I hear.  I have personally been to many dealers in Illinois
and Iowa --- none come close, none measure up.

Of course, I don't work there, I'm in grad school :-),
but I do buy lots of stuff there :-) :-).
--
``In short, this is the absolute coolest computer device ever invented!''
                   -Tom Denbo speaking about The VideoToaster by NewTek
``Think about NewTek's VideoToaster!  Now think about the Amiga!''
Loren J. Rittle lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu