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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Articles about the Amiga in Bay Area papers...
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 12:19:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 12:19:49 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 22-Sep-87 04:10:25 EDT
Reply-To: ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer)
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Is it normally like this? I usually don't read any papers (USENET & work
pretty much prevent me from reading anything but a few Amiga magazines and
watch the nightly news. 8-)  ). But this weekend I just happened to get my
hands on two papers, and, both mentioned the Amiga, favorably! 

The Sunday San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner's "Image" magazine had an 
article entitled "Holywood on a Desktop," mostly about EA & Deluxe Video. 
It only mentioned the Amiga once: "With the Deluxe series and a Commodore 
Amiga personal computer, anyone can turn out animated stories complete 
with color, subtitles, music, and sound effects."  There was also a picture
(the one from the back cover of Deluxe Video box).

The Mercury News, in the hardware review section had an article entitled
"From Max Headroom to Hobbyist --- Commodore Makes Science Fiction Real."
The article had a picture of a full-featured A2000 running Marble Madness.
The article talked of the A1000 as being "mispositioned" --- too high
priced for the home, but not quite a business machine. Then it talked
about the 500 and the 2000, favorably --- "Graphics of the Amiga often
rival specialized graphics terminals and computers that cost 
$10,000 or more... The Amiga is still one of the only multitasking
computers available ..."  They also mentioned the use of Amigas
at Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center and in making Max Headroom.
[We all saw that 1-second mention of "Commodore Business Machines, Amiga 
Division" at the end of Max Headroom, right?]

Anyway, all in all pretty encouraging! Good to read about Amigas in non-Amiga
publications.

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu