Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!wrdis01!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!triton.unm.edu!nwickham From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Wake Up Commodore! Message-ID: <1991Mar21.072826.16038@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 21 Mar 91 07:28:26 GMT References: <1991Mar20.194243.11450@news.iastate.edu> <17745@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 48 You know, to me it seems that the Amiga's problems are not technical. I am not a CS person, but the CS people I know (I know some good ones) all believe the Amiga is a pretty incredible peice of hardware. Even the fact that this or these Amiga news groups are the most active is more evidence of the Amiga's blatant supiority. We need support. We all know something that other people don't know and it is a burden to bare to know that here we have this machine that is so powerful and so much better ...and then we go out into the world and hear: "Amiga, whats that ...an IBM compatible?" I read about subliminal advertising and began seeing what I read about. But when I would tell someone that the woman in this advertisement who was pulling on this guys necktie was symbolicly trying to castrate him ...whoever I was talking to would all start slowly moving away from me. A couple of years later, I heard that there were support groupes for people who knew about subliminal advertising because it is very hard to know somthing important that other people don't know about. So that is why these Amiga news groups are so popular, it is a support group for us Amiga owners who all know something important that other people don't know. I don't like to hear people bashing Commodore. First of all, I don't believe that there is anything seriously wrong with Commodore and I believe C= bashing is really just a sort of self destructive outlet of frustration. Lets bash Apple instead ...at least turn that hostility outward, and besides, Apple deserves it. People just don't know about Amiga and computers. To most people, a computer is a black mysterious box and when they buy one they are going to choose what is least frightening and most familiar ...Apple ...IBM or "IBM compatible." Amiga is slowly making its way. Things are changing. People know more about computers. It seems to me that Amiga is doing pretty damn well when I consider what it has been up against ...a new product in a new market in a technical revolution of sorts. Geese, I'll bet if I tried, I could sell 10 Amigas to the people I go to school with. I just show them what I can do on Amiga and am careful not to threaten them with it. NCW I can not exlplain, You would not understand, That this is not, How I am. I have become, Comfortably numb. Pink Floyed, The Wall