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From: lachac@topaz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: JAUG Meeting (was Re: Summary of Boston Computer Society)
Message-ID: <10305@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 10:12:37 EST
Article-I.D.: topaz.10305
Posted: Sat Mar 21 10:12:37 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Mar-87 18:05:01 EST
References: <1464@masscomp.UUCP> <634@bcsaic.UUCP> <10303@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu (Gerard Lachac)
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Keywords: RJ, A1000, A2000, rumor, bcs

In article <10303@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> trudel@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jonathan D.) writes:
>In article <634@bcsaic.UUCP> randy@bcsaic.UUCP (Randy Groves) writes:
>>had previously committed to exposing it elsewhere in the US first.  Sigh.
>>-randy groves - Boeing Advanced Technology Center
>
>Well, it's because the Jersey Amiga User's Group got to see it
>tonight.  We also saw a running version of the A500!  It was quite
>impressive, (check your local magazines for more info) and such a
>deal!  The only thing I wasn't thrilled by was that the A500's power
>switch is on the external power supply (which is probably a
>cost-cutting measure, no?).  Thanks to Jeff Porter and George Robbins
>for coming out to the meeting.


What I found extremely interesting was the fact that Jeff Porter mentioned
about the A500 sales.  It seems Bally's and two other big video arcade 
manufacturers have contracted to purchase a bunch of the A500 boards to
use in their next generation of video arcade games.

Now that's showing confidence in the A500!!  
(hmmm, perhaps in a year's time we'll see some REAL arcade quality hits at
home!  After all we'll all be running on the same hardware...)



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