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From: bengeult@ssc-vax (Greg Bengeult)
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Subject: Re: Hey, Commodore has a brain everybody! (Marketing)
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Date: 12 Jun 91 16:49:02 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.023209.19315@cs.wayne.edu> jal@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:
>
>[...]
>I teach an introductory course in computer science and my first assignment
>usually is to have all my students go to the lab and check out a
>Guided Tour to the Macintosh disk.  This is an autobooting disk that
>slowly but surely teaches the user how to use the machine without having
>to read the manual.  [..stuff about 'help balloons'..]
>
>Question: Wouldn't it help if Amiga also had a guided tour disk that
>would make the Amiga an easier machine to use; like the Mac?
>
>Jason Leigh

'Way back in 1985, when I bought my A1000, it came with a bootable disk
from MindScape that took the user on a guided tour of the Amiga, including
a pretty good basic description of its innards.  It had real nice graphics
and animation, and walked the new user through disk manipulation, use of 
the mouse, windows, screens, menus, attaching new hardware, and more.  If
I get the chance, I will see if I can find the original and try it on my
current A2000HD to see if it still works under 1.3 AmigaDOS.  I have 
never seen 'Guided Tour to the Macintosh', but I would guess that the
MindScape intro disk is a pretty close match to it.




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