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From: riddle@drkami.UUCP (Dan Riddell-Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga On TV
Message-ID: <0360.AA0360@drkami>
Date: 11 Mar 89 05:56:53 GMT
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Okay, I've seen the postings about Amigas being spotted in the great movies.
And I've read the postings about all the great television show that Amigas
have been featured.....

But, I have to report my sighting.  It was a show that none of us would be
caught dead watching (really).  For one thing it was on at 7:30 in the morning
on KTEH (public TV San Jose).  I only turned it on (I swear) for my 21-month
old son (Sesame Street follows it).

The show is called "Zoobilee Zoo".  It has Ben Vereen (sp?) introducing and
some dancer types dressed as VERY brightly colored animalish characters.
A fox, cat, bear, parrot, and some other animals I can't determine, act out
some great drama that has some moral to teach at the end of the half hour.
Mostly they jump around and do exagerated movements to hold small children's
attention.

Today, they had gone (I didn't see why) to a place with big sign that read
"Memory Lane".  It had flashing colored lights and reel-to-reel tape decks
and other television industry ideas of computer looking thingies.  The Bear
and Cat where scared when the 12-foot wall of flashing lights, started to
talk to them.  An extremely low res (1 foot pixels) face told them it's 
name was "Memor" and remembered everything.  They of course ask it to remember
one of their favorite times.  I expected it to reply "The great and powerful
DOS is not impressed", but the giant robot face said "ENTER DATA" (pass that
string to speak:opt/r/s30 to actually experience).

At this point the Cat walked over to monitor ("hey that looks like the
back of my 1080").  The camera pans around to the front of a small computer
("Hey that really is an Amiga monitor").  She types three random keys with
her gloved paws ("HEY, That's an Amiga keyboard, and it's a 2000 with the
front covered by the keyboard being elevated").  The screen changes from
big block title characters that I can't remember into a checker board.
Alternate squares fade out to a genlocked background, then the other squares
disappear to show a video of the Cat's happy birthday party last year.

I sat there and watched the Amiga get used this in this demeaning way three
more times.  I felt silly watching this show, but was proud to see an Amiga
starring, for I knew that no other PC could have played that part.  No
three letter computer could video title and genlock and fade/wipe/disolve
the way our Amiga did.



BTW, This is my first posting from home.
Thank You Sneakers for getting me Anews/UUCP/Mail.


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