Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!ogicse!ucsd!network.ucsd.edu!alex!simon From: simon@ivem1.ucsd.edu (Simon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: COMPUTE! SUX Message-ID: <5282@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 2 May 91 21:08:16 GMT Article-I.D.: network.5282 Sender: news@network.ucsd.edu Organization: University of Calif. San Diego Lines: 56 Nntp-Posting-Host: alex.ucsd.edu Originator: simon@alex In article <1991May01.213205.8415@disk.uucp> specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey) writes: >Anyway what ticked me off is that in the "Letters" section of the issue I saw >someone wrote in and asked what computer they should get to start their child >off in graphics and animation. (They said the kid was about 12 or 13) The >editor (or whoever answers the letters) replied and said that he should get >an IBM (of all machine!) and said that he will need at least a 386 and a ^^^ >postscript compatible laser printer...etc... Jeez this guy is nuts. For a 12-13 year old?! >^D But laser printer, hmmm... 8^J > >I started writing a letter to the magazine displaying my disgust with it and >to ask why he did not suggest an amiga with ALL of its animation programs >and virtually endless graphics expandability, but then I decided it wasn't worth >my effort...the letter would probably not appear...and I would have wasted >27 cents for a stamp and 20 minutes of my own time. 27 cents? It's 29 cents here in CA. Anyway, you should'of. Maybe they would have printed it, maybe not. But who cares. It's always better to put the effort in and spread the word on the Amiga. >time reading, and the most uninformed suggestion of the year. If you seriously >want to get into animation and graphics I would suggest an amiga 3000 or 2000 >with speed enhancements, some 3-d rendering and ray tracing software (I like >Turbo Silver, but Sculpt-4d is supposed to be better), an animation program-> >animagic by aegis would be nice...there are others of course, and later you >could buy one of those 24 bit display boards...(HAM-E, CD_TV?, ColorBurst, etc) >and of course for fun...a genloc! or even a toaster! For a 12-13 year old?! :^} What a nice father!!! > >Jeers to compute! Here here... > >Byron >-- >Byron 'Maxwell' Guernsey | /// //\\ >specter@disk.UUCP or | /// // \\ >uunet!ukma!corpane!disk!specter | \\\/// //====\\ >"Great programs aren't written, they're fathered." \\\/ // \\ m i g a -Simon -- * Simon Lee * Southwestern Regional Resource for * * simon@ivem1.ucsd.edu * Intermediate Voltage * * sulee@ucsd.edu * Electron Microscopy, UC San Diego *