hugh@kink.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble @ Phaedra V's Amiga 2500) (01/22/90)
[ Lie neater? Why not just tell the truth? ] From a smattering of responses, here are the record holders in the "how long until you knew what a guru was" contest. Shortest: >From: cave!Adam.Benjamin@andrews.edu (Adam Benjamin) > >Well, I may be the winner for shortest time before meeting the GURU. >The store that I got my Amiga 500 from gave me a bad workbench disk. >I quickly unpacked everything, wired it all up, slapped in the workbench >disk (after the "Hand prompt") and went right to the GURU !! >I'm such a computer nut that I thought it was neat! at least until >I couldn't get rid of it. This one might be beat, but not by more than a very few seconds. Longest: >From: cbmvax!uunet!munnari!wehi.dn.mu.oz.au!baxter_a > >The son of a woman at work has had his Amiga since xmas 88 and didn't >know what the "red and black flashing box" was the FIRST time he saw it >about one week before xmas 89. > >He plays a lot of games, uses WP and doesn't do much else. I was naively guessing that the old A1000 hacks would have run into the guru before they even got going, and recent Amigans might have gone a while before bumping into one. There's some of that, but generally it seems that people push harder, doing more things with more s/w until they manage to get a guru anyways. Users, give 'em an inch ... :-) -- # Hugh D. Gamble No Disclaimers. # hugh@kink.UUCP # Burning the candle at both ends, or just a flaming ball of wax?