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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Try to tell a school about Amigas? HAH!
Message-ID: <309@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 10:02:02 GMT
References: <2631@crash.cts.com> <3705@cup.portal.com>
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Summary: What a perfectly WONDERFUL idea...

In article <3705@cup.portal.com>, DMasterson@cup.portal.com writes:
> 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...

	Peachy.  What a professional production (how does one do a smiley
with it's tongue sticking out, anyway?)

	If you want the school to the idea that the should buy a computer
manufactuered by the people who put out that video, the best way would be
to hide it from them.  The first time I saw it was in a local Amiga dealer's
storefront (I had already had an Amiga 1000 for quite a long period of time
beforehand).  I was embarrased for my machine.  There were people who didn't
have an Amiga snickering at it.

	The way to do it is do get some of the FF disks, such as the Ray
tracer, the image processor, the demos, the educational programs, and the
fact that the best C for any machine it is available for (Aztec by MANX) is
_developed_ on an Amiga (I don't know what educational level you are trying to
hit).

	If they still have doubts, then have an Amiga brought up and demo
Lotus running under transformer.  Like dipping a vestal virgin in sewage,
I know...

	If it's public domain, there is at least .4 GIG of it for the
Amiga (I have .2 GIG myself) and it's available for well under the IBM
asking price of $10 a disk average (that's also 3000 normal density IBM
disks :^)), usually for just mailing costs, if you don't have a local user's
group for it.

	Or you could always side-by-side Word Perfect.... ;-)

	Don't, however, show them the video.
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			terry@wsccs