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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: buying equipment for people
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Date: 15 Feb 88 02:11:38 GMT
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In article <5263@utah-cs.UUCP> thomson@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Richard A Thomson) writes:
>In article <3203@watcgl.waterloo.edu> rmariani@watmum.waterloo.edu
>    (Rico Mariani) writes:
>>If we're going to buy a new Amiga system for anyone it should be one of
>>our contributers (Matt Dillon comes to mind) not some bozo writing for
>>Byte. ...
>
>I thought of this same thing when I read the article about buying a machine
>for (ugh!) Jerry Pournelle.  The person I thought should get a nice new
>Amiga is... Fred Fish!  Heck, ...
>together through his freely distributable software library.  Any seconds on
>the idea?

	Not here.  The suggestion of giving an Amiga to Mr. Pournelle was
not as a reward but to get him to use it and (naturally) fall in love with it
and start giving the Amiga good press instead of the off-handed, mis-informed 
comments he is currently dishing out.

Flip side,

	joe piazza

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