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From: ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar)
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Subject: AMIGA seen on Beyond 2000 (how embarrasing for the Amiga)
Keywords: amiga sighting
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Date: 9 Jan 91 11:48:22 GMT
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In article <1991Jan8.004830.26455@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner [hunter]) writes:

>Beyond 2000 is made in Australia so I know a few interesting facts about it.
>Beyond 2000 has some BIG sponcers over here and One of the BIGGEST is
>Apple Mac.  Because of this, the amiga is a NO-NO to show on the program
>The amiga has made its way into some stories however.  You will notice
>that they always use a MAC when any computer will do.  Ie for
>cosmatics in a example.

Beyond 2000 is low-quality pseudo-science for the terminally stupid, so
I don't think that the absence of Amigas on it is a major drawback.

Let's look at the record of this show:

*  A recent program where someone claiming to be an astronomer
   (no justification for this title was presented) showed "proof",
   their word, that astrology was a scientific fact.

*  Carmel Travers mixing up the concept of a bit with a byte,
   ("64 kilobits, the same amount of memory as in a common
   home computer."  Of what decade, I suppose the question would
   be.)

*  Innumberable useless gadgets and a fascination with cars.

*  Their repeated inability to present primary-school science and
   get it right.  Also, quite a lot of statistics abuse, though I suspect
   that this is not deliberate.  They are too stupid to realise that
   a statistic is nonesense.

*  Their continued use of non-metric measurements (this is a science
   show produced in Australia, remember.)

*  The original presentation of the Amiga in mid-'86 where it was
   shown genlocking and doing graphics, but where the name of the
   machine was never even mentioned, and no closeups of the unit
   were taken.

The team does tend to use Apple Macintoshes, and it is true that they
are parraded out whenever the team needs an "official looking desk."
I am not sure if they are sponsored by Apple, but it would not surprise
me one bit.  They do mention the Mac commonly, when they almost always
refer to it as the "Apple Macintosh", but otherwise they refer to
computers as "PC's" or "Personal Computers."

Anyway, I am not terribly concerned that this bunch of moronic reporters
didn't mention the Amiga.  If they did, perhaps they would repeat
something that the Sydney Telegraph Mirror did recently, when they
announced: "the program, which runs on the Omega computer..."

Some press can be done without.


Disclaimer:  A world that needs disclaimers needs laywer hunting season.
             Standard ones apply, anyway.

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