iphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley) (04/11/89)
[In "Re: one disk drive", Theodore Dennison said:]
:
: In article <4755@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu (The Amiga Programmer)
: writes:
: >
: >*********************** Hans Bechtel
: >* Amiga Before / *
: >* The Rest / * hansb@ariel.unm.edu
: >************** \/ ***** (505) 275-2797
:
: Realy? When did you get yours? I bought my Amiga in November of 1985. I have
: met very few who have that beat! (And most of them work for C/A)
:
: T.E.D.
:
October 26, 1985. In Montana, no less.
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--Bill Kinnersley
Physics Department Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717
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226 Transfer complete.hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser) (04/12/89)
In article <8904110011.AA13584@terra.oscs.montana.edu>, iphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley) writes: > [In "Re: one disk drive", Theodore Dennison said:] > : > : In article <4755@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu (The Amiga Programmer) > : writes: > : Realy? When did you get yours? I bought my Amiga in November of 1985. I have > > October 26, 1985. In Montana, no less. October 7, 1985. Not even a developer's system either. (I really wanted the 1070 monitor :-( By the way, she's still running strong. NO hardware failures of any kind in 3.5 years. I wish everything I bought was built as well as my A1000. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Harv Laser | SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. | | Plink: CBM*HARV | UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0 | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
dan@hp-lsd.HP.COM (Dan Schmelzer) (04/12/89)
I bought my amiga late October 1985. My 1080 monitor took a couple extra weeks to be delivered to the store. One of the original... Dan Schmelzer dan@hp-lsd.HP.COM
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (04/12/89)
Bought my Amigas September 27, 1985. Though I used some "loaners" 'til mine "arrived" in an 18-wheeler screeching to a stop in front of my house at 7:12am on October 25, 1985. 5 piles of Amigas, each 6' high. These were the double-boxes: two Amiga CPU boxes in each shipping box; the other boxes with docs and accessories and &tc. I'll NEVER forget that morning, the ONLY time I never complained about being "rudely" awakened early! Been smilin' ever since! :-) Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]
jdow@gryphon.COM (J. Dow) (04/12/89)
In article <8904110011.AA13584@terra.oscs.montana.edu> iphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley) writes: >[In "Re: one disk drive", Theodore Dennison said:] >: >: In article <4755@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu (The Amiga Programmer) >: writes: >: > >: >*********************** Hans Bechtel >: > >October 26, 1985. In Montana, no less. > > >-- >--Bill Kinnersley Well, Nov 2, 1985 beats most November purchases. And Amy is still running strong as my second machine. -- Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one. {@_@} jdow@bix (where else?) Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM the knight. Does the fair maiden ever {backbone}!gryphon!jdow win? Surely both the knight and dragon stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide? Better yet - she should get an Amiga and quit playing with dragons and knights.
ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (04/12/89)
In article <8904110011.AA13584@terra.oscs.montana.edu> iphwk@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU (Bill Kinnersley) writes: :[In "Re: one disk drive", Theodore Dennison said:] :: In article <4755@charon.unm.edu> hansb@ariel.unm.edu (The Amiga Programmer) :: writes: :: > :: >*********************** Hans Bechtel :: >* Amiga Before / * :: >* The Rest / * hansb@ariel.unm.edu :: >************** \/ ***** (505) 275-2797 :: :: Realy? When did you get yours? I bought my Amiga in November of 1985. I have :: met very few who have that beat! (And most of them work for C/A) : :October 26, 1985. In Montana, no less. : October 1, 1985, about a week before they started showing up in stores. Has it really been 3-1/2 years? _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU \_ -_ Recumbent Bikes: UUCP: pacbell > !{well,unicom}!ewhac O----^o The Only Way To Fly. hplabs / (pronounced "AE-wack") "Work FOR? I don't work FOR anybody! I'm just having fun." -- The Doctor
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (04/13/89)
In article <11305@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: > > October 1, 1985, about a week before they started showing up in >stores. > > Has it really been 3-1/2 years? Yes it really has. Shane is three years old, and I got my amiga 6 months after I got my Shane. If any of you C= folk want to borrow him for a week or two he can STILL crash ANY program ANY time just by hitting a few keystrokes. And I mean CRASH. -- ``Parents who have children, have children who have children'' richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) (04/15/89)
From article <14638@gryphon.COM>, by richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton): > In article <11305@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >> Has it really been 3-1/2 years? > > Yes it really has. Shane is three years old, and I got my amiga 6 months > after I got my Shane. That looks like 2.5 years to me. I wonder which event made so small an impression that you missed the date by a year. :) --Fabbian Dufoe 350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South St. Petersburg, Florida 33705 813-823-2350 UUCP: ...uunet!pdn!jc3b21!fgd3
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (04/18/89)
In article <624@jc3b21.UUCP> fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) writes: >From article <14638@gryphon.COM>, by richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton): >> In article <11305@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: >>> Has it really been 3-1/2 years? >> >> Yes it really has. Shane is three years old, and I got my amiga 6 months >> after I got my Shane. > > That looks like 2.5 years to me. I wonder which event made so small >an impression that you missed the date by a year. :) I effed up. 1) get Amiga 2) get Shane (six months later) 3) get usenet account (six months later) So much for all that software I was going to write............. -- ``But why are you taking your money out of a solvent bank ?'' - Me ``Because you can't get it out of an insolvent one'' - Him richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) (04/23/89)
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]