hugh@kink.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble @ Phaedra V's Amiga 2500) (11/15/89)
My sister and brother in law are in the market for a computer. They used to have a Mac, but are considering getting an Amiga this time. The main use will be for writing research papers in chemistry and math, and doing calculations. Both of them are educated professionals, but not especially knowledgeable about computers. They are at Texas A&M University in College Station. I would appreciate the names & addresses of any good Amiga dealers in the area, where they might go to get a demonstration of the Amiga and advice about specific h/w s/w combinations. A demo of "Shadow of the Beast" on an A500 isn't going to interest them much, someone who could show off a wp, spreadsheet, etc. on an A2000, or A2500 would be good. Email me any pertinent info, and one more, "serious use" Amiga could well be the result. Thanks. P.S. I don't need any suggestions as to what they should buy, I can consult on that pretty well. I don't have any first hand experience with dealers in the area though, and as non-techies they aren't about to buy something they can't get local support for. -- # Hugh D. Gamble (416) 267-6159 No Disclaimers. # hugh@kink.UUCP # looking for a woman who can sit in a mini-skirt and talk philosophy, # executing both with confidence and style.
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (11/18/89)
In article <27175.AA27175@kink> (Hugh D. Gamble) writes: >The main use will be for writing research papers in chemistry >and math, and doing calculations. Both of them are educated >professionals, but not especially knowledgeable about computers. If you set them down in front of a system with 3MB and a decent HardDrive, then bring up the AmigaTeX previewer and then run TxEd or something like it that has REXX capability, then start TeX. Now in the TxED startup file have a line that says : MACRO 't' TeXMe And in the REXX: directory you put a file named TeXMe.txed, which contains : 'SA' 'RAM:Texbuffer.tex' ; Save As RAM:Texbuffer.tex ADDRESS 'AmigaTeX' 'TeXify' 'RAM:Texbuffer.tex' END Now in the TxED window enter something like $\sum{x - 1}\over{x^2} \end and type ^T (Control-T)..... Something *wonderful* will happen. TxEd will run the Rexx macro, which will tell TxED to save it's buffer into a file Texbuffer.tex on the ram disk and it will tell TeX to actually format it, and then when TeX is done, the previewer will pop to the front and show you what it looks like, which will be a heck of a nice equation that *no other* wordprocessor in the world seems to be able to do in a WYSIWYG or non-WYSIWYG fashion. Click the front to back gadget of the previewer to throw it back behind the Workbench screen and then keep editing. Want to see what it looks like ? Hit ^T, if you put a macro on ^P to run dvips you can actually have one to preview, and then when your happy hit ^P and it will come out on your DeskJet Plus (or whatever you use) looking really, really, nice. It was this kind of thing that turned a bunch of scientists at SLAC into total Amiga fans. What you will need : 3MB system (you can run with 1MB but to run everything at once you (should get 3MB HardDisk (40MB is fine, 80MB if their wild and crazy) QuarterDeck (To do backups) Rexx ( To glue the editor and TeX together) AmigaTeX + (To do the magic) HP Driver (Or a printer driver for what ever your output device) WShell (Because it makes even more whizzy things possible) Editor (TxED, CedPro, a modified uEMACS, UEdit, basically anything with a REXX port should work.) --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "If it didn't have bones in it, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it?!"