hodad@ut-emx.UUCP (Will Fiveash) (12/16/88)
[] I am graduating this semester and will be losing my access to Usenet :-(. To all the people who keep this message area active and informed I say Good Job!!! I have had an Amiga since '85 and nowhere have I found the breadth and depth of information that is available here. I will really miss keeping up with the scene. But before I go here is a little story some may find amusing. I went to a local M*c dealer the other day to buy some inexpensive disks when a friend came in that I hadn't seen in a while. He told me he was looking around for a computer, mainly for midi work. He was considering a M*c II but was concerned about the price. I asked him if he had considered an Amiga and he was but hadn't had a chance to see one. I began to describe some of its features when one of the salespersonnel overheard our conversation and told us that the Amiga was too slow to multi-task effectively. Right (at this moment I am editing this message, making a backup of my harddrive using Quarterback btw, and am logged in the the school's system). My nostrils flaring at this blatent bias I asked sweetly, "slow compared to what? a M*c SE?" He stammered, "No I mean a M*c II." "Thats right", I told my friend, "you can have a machine for about 2500 dollars more that single tasks faster than an Amiga." The salesperson at that point found another area of the store more interesting and left. ;-) Will Fiveash "It takes a meg to play, it takes a guru to cry"