Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Why are Amigaoids hell bent on proving the Amiga is better ? Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 08:44:42 GMT References: <3104@kirk.nmg.bu.oz.au><1991Jun26.221821.8371@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 87 atiya@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Atiya Y. Hakeem) writes: >I think that the reason that Amiga owners are often fanatical and >defensive is that we have an inferiority complex due to the >attitudes of most people towards our computer. The other day >an acquaintance of mine asked me what kind of computer I had. >When I replied that I had an Amiga he said "Oh, one of those toys." I saw an I#? owner in an interuser chat on my BBS with a C64 owner, and was telling him how Amigas are only toys, little improvement over the C64, have worse sound than I#?s, less pirated software(was actually a point this guy tried to make in interuser chat!), worse hard drives than I#?, etc... Ah, its these kind of things that get "fire in the belly" sometimes...I have had many computers here, everything from the PET 8032 to the C64 to the Atari 800 and I#? XT's and Amigas, and then some I#? knownothing comes around and starts telling YOU what your computer can/can not do...Grrr..I know more about his computer than he knows about mine...Plus, everyone that has ever owned an I#? that has taken me up on my challange and has come over here to see WHAT an Amiga(I have an A3000 that I am on now and an A2000 in the other room) can do has wound up buying an A500 or A2000 just to do the "cool shit"...But only three people have ever had the guts to come over here and try to show me his computer is better, and I suspect the people that did were looking for a good excuse to buy an Amiga...The Apple Mac owners I know seem to have more respect for my computer than these I#?ers I run into...And for Atari ST, I have yet to meet someone that owns one...Either on the local boards or in person..Wait a minute, I think I did have some Atari ST guy on my BBS once, and he complained left and right no one supported his computer locally...His cousin sold it to him so he could buy an Amiga(Honestly, I wouldn't make something like that up) Humm. Look what I just found(while looking for Atari ST BBS's): Atari Advocate........>< 398-3078 WI * u9 At St Ib OG SP SA WI RoOak C ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 1991 by Horst Mann. This list may be freely distributed on computer bulletin board systems; however, no commercial use of this list may be made without written permission of the copyright holder. ANY use of this list in whole or in part MUST be accompanied by this copyright notice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guess there is LOCAL (as in local call) support and the guy was pulling my chain. Wonder how much support his gives though...Humm, breaking down the codes, it has an HST, runs 24 hours, runs Wildcat(IBM BBS software), has sports discussions, Windows, and Online Games...File/message support for Atari, ST, and IBM..and probably has Fidonet...Seeing how its a BBS called the "Atari Advocate" and its run on an IBM, ah, hard to tell how well he'd help ya out..But seeing how he's got Windows support, I would figure his IBM users outnumber his Atari users(which on my BBS is also true, I have 194 Amiga users and 206 IBM users with allmost no IBM file support) Humm, for 313 there are BBSs supporting the following machines: 1 NeXT 1 Timex 3 Adam 4 VAX 9 Unix(generic) 11 CP/M(generic) 13 Color Computer 39 Atari ST 43 Atari 8 bit 42 Mac 47 Apple ][ class 64 C64 97 Amiga 320 IBM/MS-DOS I find it kinda strange there are exactly 64 C64 boards...Humm... Anyways, you can see whats hot in the home marketplace, and whats not...BBS's generally will try to satasify their primary users... I don't believe that there are only 320 IBM boards. That sounds too low..But the Amiga is a distant second...But then again, this is only Detriot...Where Commodore has only shown Amiga commericals at 4 in the morning according to Laurana...We'd be on top if those penny pinching money grubbing fools at CBM (BTW, which all think like me) would have set aside $50 million a month for television, radio, and printed advertising...Damn, now I get it!! Wake up CBM, don't let all that money burn a hole in your pocket, we have dealers like Al over here starving his kids so he can keep selling Amigas ;-) -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.