phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (02/09/88)
In article <2666@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes: >The hard-core Amigan also gets all the Amiga magazines, and is on a >first-name basis with his/her local dealer... Assuming (1) the local dealer is worth knowing, (2) the local dealer doesn't charge outrageous prices for hardware and software (not nice to walk into a local dealer and say "hi, I bought my Amiga mail order but I still want to be on a first-name basis with you anyway"), (3) the closest "local" dealer isn't 40 miles away, and finally (4) the local dealer that meets 1 through 3 didn't go out of business waiting for the 500 and the 2000 to come out. I'm still looking......... So when is someone going to throw an Amiga-con in Houston? We have a really huge convention center now, even if it does look like a huge ship........Both coasts are just far too far away for my small budget. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (02/11/88)
In article <565@ra.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes: > >So when is someone going to throw an Amiga-con in Houston? When they move Houston out of Texas... -- "It's too dark to put my legs in my munitions" richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, rutgers!marque, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richard
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (02/14/88)
In article <565@ra.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes: > (2) the local dealer doesn't charge outrageous prices for hardware > and software. Does "outrageous" in this case mean "list price" or does it mean something different? I wonder sometimes about the consumer market, especially now that there are signs that computers may begin to act like 'regular' products and get more expensive over time rather than the reverse. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (02/17/88)
In article <2500@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >In article <565@ra.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes: >> >>So when is someone going to throw an Amiga-con in Houston? > >When they move Houston out of Texas... Well, I suppose I could also hope that someday they move Rice Univ. out of Houston! :-) William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>
andre@gtss.UUCP (Andre Frech) (02/22/88)
In article <565@ra.rice.edu>, phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes: > So when is someone going to throw an Amiga-con in Houston? We have a > really huge convention center now, even if it does look like a huge > ship........Both coasts are just far too far away for my small budget. This is my first time on the net, although I have been reading this thing since the 100th message of net.micro.amiga. So please be patient with my errors. Ask and you shall receive. This coming weekend, saturday, February 27, 1988 there is some show called the HAL-PC computer expo (or something like that). I will be there with an Amiga to show off our capabilities. It will include the bridgeboard and the only 386/387 3rd party accelerator (operating via the bridgeboard) that I know of that works with the 2088. The show will be held at the Arabia Shrine Temple near the Astrodome. Since I'm from Atlanta I don't know where that is, but they tell me that the Astrodome is a big structure that could hurt your foot if it lands on it. :-) If you would like more details or specific names I will be happy to help you via email addresses below. I am using this address so that I won't get long distance costs from Atlanta to cbmvax in West Chester. But I use both addresses regularly. Hope to see you there. Andre Frech Commodore Business Machines SouthEast Educational Support 535A Colonial Park Drive Suite 100 {rutgers...}!cbmvax!andre Atlanta, GA 30075 {gatech....}!gtss!andre My opinions := mine;
andy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Andrew M. Milburn) (02/24/88)
>In article <2500@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >>In article <565@ra.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes: >> >>So when is someone going to throw an Amiga-con in Houston? > >When they move Houston out of Texas... Them's fightin' words, boy. If they tried to throw an Amiga-con in Houston, we'd be forced to run out all the incoming Yankee carpetbaggers on a rail.
farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) (02/25/88)
andy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Andrew M. Milburn) writes: >Them's fightin' words, boy. If they tried to throw an Amiga-con in >Houston, we'd be forced to run out all the incoming Yankee carpetbaggers >on a rail. No you wouldn't; you'd have to put up barricades to keep them from leaving as soon as possible. By the way, if you're a real Texan, boy, what you doin' at some East Coast sissy-boy school like Princeton? Texas schools not good enough for ya? :-) -- Michael J. Farren, ex-Texan | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just {ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}! | dogmatize it! Reflect on it and re-evaluate unisoft!gethen!farren | it. You may want to change your mind someday." gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame