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From: myb100@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga in the Media...
Message-ID: <1569.25e50622@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 23 Feb 90 09:45:05 GMT
References: <1181@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <1181@mindlink.UUCP>, a23@mindlink.UUCP (Joel Murray) writes:
> Sergei Makarov, the Soviet ice hockey star now playing with the Calgary Flames
> in the NHL, was interviewed on the Journal, a Canadian news program.
> 
> During the course of the interview, a clip showed him and his son playing Wayne
> Gretzky Hockey on an Amiga 500.
> 
> Hmm.  Are there any Amigas in Russia?  :-)
> 

Actually (surprisingly) yes. We recently had a Soviet delegation here in
Australia for a joint workshop. I was amazed to find that one of them had
an Amiga (1000 or 500, can't remember) and that he was looking to buy
some software for it. I imagine that he might have bought it while he was
outside the USSR since Commodoreski isn't that well established  there :-)
He appeared to be quite a keen hacker, and was looking for compilers, etc.

I wonder if they've heard about the educational discounts/A1000 tradeins :-)

Picture: dialing 800-..... 'Your nearest authorised Amiga dealer is in downtown
West-Berlin....' :-)

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Markus Buchhorn
Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Canberra, Australia
markus@mso.anu.oz.au