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From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Those reconditioned 1000s
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Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 20:29:03 EDT
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In article <4044@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <1767@crash.CTS.COM> amiguy@pnet01.CTS.COM (Sean Wolfe) writes:
>>  Now that the 1000's will be getting cheaper, this will allow the C64 scum to
>>buy them.  [...]  I mean the kids (eg 13-17 years) who do nothing but pirate
>
>>I hope these types of people don't move in to the Amiga community.
>>I wasn't so "honest" about <C>right's myself back then, but having an
>>Amiga has made me realize how important it is to support the industry [...]
>

I don't get it.  Here we are, a LARGE collection of individuals, who, for
several years there, owned a 64 and PIRATED our little hearts out (Sorry, 
I don't mean "pirated", I should have said "Collected Software":').

Then we get Amigas, and suddenly we are the stanchest people about copying
disks.  Nobody does it on the Amiga (and admidts it).

I want a psychologist to examine the phenominine (Damn, why doesn't VT100
have a built in spell checker?:)

Wouldn't it be funny if it turned out that when people moved to the Amiga
they remembed how many disks it had taken to keep up on the 64 and decided
they couldn't?!?

Well, there are alot of strange things about the people who buy Amigas.

  They Band together more than most computer users
  They are addicted to the machine and try to convert others
  They can't seem to communicate exectly "Why" the machine is better
    than all the others out there, they just know that it is
  They love the machine even though *no one* has yet to come out with
    any professional software for it.

  They tend to be programmers or hackers

Well, now that Commodore/NotAmiga has released the "Mass Market"
version of the Amiga (The C64 of the 90's), will that magic still be
there?  Will it convert the vilest of those "First Generation"
computer owners also.  (By "vilest" I mean, they were like we were,
stealing software and all, and then we grew up, and they had to wait
for C64 version of the Amiga, like they will feel more at home there,
oh, boy). 

But, I am bringing down the tone of this newsgroup, maybe it is the
high cheer and the contributions that make this machine the magic
that it is.
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