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Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source!
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Date: 24 Jun 91 23:37:49 GMT
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In article <30291@know.pws.bull.com>, ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:
> 
> rjast1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Robert J Anisko) writes:
>  
> %  I'm just wondering what our dear friend over in Commie-land (Amiga, not
> %USSR <grin>) would feel if someone were to step into their message
> %base and kindly show them how to convert over from Commodore to the
> %Atari.  While this is called a "friendly" thing, for one no one on here
> %asked for this "help."  If someone wants help, do it in PRIVATE.
> %It remins me of something done in wartime and even during Desert Storm:
> %drop tons of propoganda on the enemy telling them step by step how
> %to surrender (many of the Iraqi soldiers who surrendered carried these
> %"information slips").
>  
>  If you can find some good solid reasons for Amiga users to convert to the
> Atari, your more than welcome to give it a try. However, I find it hard to
> believe that you can find faults with a computer that is clearly a better
> machine than the ST.
>  
> %  While I admit it is a stretch comparing this to the war, the point
> %is that the same strategy/technique is being employed.
>  
>  Didn't we win that war? Sorry, couldn't resist! :)
>  
> %  or in short: I didn't ask, I don't remember seeing ANY postings here
> %about it, and thus we really ain't interested in your "help."
> %So I kindly ask our noble friend to save his blessings for those
> %who want and need it - in the Commodore section...
>  
>  I didn't say you did. I have, however, received many messages just on our
> local Free-Net from Atari users needing information. Where there is smoke
> there is fire, so I thought I'd offer my help to anybody on UseNet. Turns
> out that I was right, as many responses have been had. I also got about 20
> negative responses, but those don't bother me much.
>  
>    Tom
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David Paschall-Zimbel		davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu