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From: DMasterson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Try to tell a school about Amigas? HAH!
Message-ID: <3705@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Mar 88 20:18:16 GMT
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In message <2631@crash.cts.com>, steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com writes:
> Recently our school was to purchase some computers for school 
>applications (which are never more than word processing and pascal
>compiling) and I tried to convince them to get Amigas.  The
>were set on getting *REAL* IBM's. I tried to convince them what
>a waste that would be considering you can get an Amiga and the
>IBM emulator for a lot less, and since they are used to the 
>blazing speed (roughly 1 Mhz) of the //e I really don't think they
>would notice the difference.  "The Amiga could open up new
>possibilities in desktop publishing and graphic presentations"
>I told them in vain.  "Why do we need graphics?" they replied.  
> 
Or music? Or multitasking? Or 3-D animations? Or...

I'd suggest you run right down to your local Amiga dealer and borrow the A500
video presentation that Commodore puts out.  If the school can look at that
and not get excited about the prospects for the Amiga in many areas of school
disciplines (not just computer programming), then its time to find a new
school.  It was really a good video...

>"The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once."
> 
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David Masterson
DMasterson@cup.portal.com