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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OLD TIMERS
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Date: 23 Apr 89 02:08:18 GMT
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In article <13500@louie.udel.EDU> new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes:
>In article <869@savax.UUCP> thompson@savax.UUCP (thompson mark) writes:
>>Funny thing is, it was a BYTE article that made decide on the Amiga.
>

I first heard about this Amiga-thing in January of 1984, when rumor
began to bounce around this a parallel dimensions about the hot new
graphics box. I finally saw it for real at the SIGGRAPH '85 in SF when
RJ, Bob Parisau (sp?) et al, were demonstrating it to the largest
crowd on the floor. I finally got one in December of 85 and have used
it almost on a daily basis since then. (Even got Jay Miner to sign
mine!)

When they first appeared in the stores I went to the local Computerland
to look at theirs. Their workbench disk had been trashed, so the only
thing I saw was the hand with the disk, and I stared at that for the longest
time, realizing that this was the future of computing |-)




          *** mike (cerbral GURU, insert M&Ms to restart) smithwick***
"Oh, I'm just a NOP in the instruction set of life, oh, ohhhh, hmmmmm"

[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]