Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!moray!mybest!ut-emx!hodad
From: hodad@ut-emx.UUCP (Will (Bitter Pill) Fiveash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga dealers in Austin,Tx
Keywords: Last word. I am sure you're relieved.
Message-ID: <8155@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 07:16:30 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <21203@emx>, andre@gtss.UUCP (Andre Frech) writes:

>Sigh.  must you flame?  It's so unbecoming of you.  :-> 
		 ^^^^^
>I heard that.  :-*  It may also be that the users who wish not to research
								   ^^^^^^^^
Well I tried early on to be a good Amiga citizen.  Initially, I tried
writting Commodore about a variety of things and I did not get much
response (as in none).  Later, when I found out what the customer support
line was I called several times to no avail as it was perpetualy busy or
else no one was home. :-<

It is true that the original post was somewhat emotional but after finding
myself on usenet by chance (taking a course that gave me an account on a
machine with usenet access) I seized the opportunity to inform someone at
CBM that we, the consumers, are being mistreated and the Amiga
misrepresented.  Is this a bad thing?   
  
>I was not aware that there were any authorized Amiga dealers in Austin
>except for AB Computers.  I will have to check my records about that one,
>which is why I'm not being absolutist.  However, you failed to mention
>them completely in your article.

Yes, I admit an oversight due to the fact that AB Computers is somewhat of
a non-entity as far as the Amiga goes.  The facts are they do not mention
the Amiga in their Yellow Pages ad nor have I ever seen them adverise
anywhere.  And, of the few people I know that have dealt with AB, their
experience has been unsatisfactory.

>> 	BTW, there used to be a couple of 1000s in the UT micro lab that
>> were donated by ByteByByte.  One broke, never to be replaced, and the other
>> sits in a dark corner with the power off pretending it's broken.
>
>I don't understand what it is that you want here.  I once remember a college
>I went to had a roomful of donated Apollo minis that went unused; and I had
>the run of a several gigabyte network since I realized its potential.  You
>can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think.

If there was at least one 2000 with a harddisk and some utilities like a
wordprocessor, graphics package or compiler perhaps there would be some
interest.  The students that use the Macs and PS/2s in this lab are
interested in doing some work on these machines and not in playing around
with Workbench.  The point was the 1000s do not have any of the above
mentioned utilities and they are not representative of the Amiga line
anymore.

>Please understand.  The CATS and hardware team get a lot of visibility on
>here so you know they are fiercely proud of their product.  It is no

I am happy with computer and I am glad that they support this net but most
users do not get the benefit of such knowledgable advice elsewhere.

I know this is wasted bandwidth to some so I am off this subject.
	Will Fiveash