Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!mailrus!umix!bcm!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What are some good bulletin boards?? good local dealers?? Message-ID: <565@ra.rice.edu> Date: 8 Feb 88 22:57:19 GMT References: <1655@ssc-vax.UUCP> <2666@swan.ulowell.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 21 Summary: Local dealers In article <2666@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes: >The hard-core Amigan also gets all the Amiga magazines, and is on a >first-name basis with his/her local dealer... Assuming (1) the local dealer is worth knowing, (2) the local dealer doesn't charge outrageous prices for hardware and software (not nice to walk into a local dealer and say "hi, I bought my Amiga mail order but I still want to be on a first-name basis with you anyway"), (3) the closest "local" dealer isn't 40 miles away, and finally (4) the local dealer that meets 1 through 3 didn't go out of business waiting for the 500 and the 2000 to come out. I'm still looking......... So when is someone going to throw an Amiga-con in Houston? We have a really huge convention center now, even if it does look like a huge ship........Both coasts are just far too far away for my small budget. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University