baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) (12/17/87)
In article <2940@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: >in article <3644@ames.arpa>, mike@ames.arpa (Mike Smithwick) says: >> Xref: cbmvax comp.sys.amiga:12083 comp.sys.atari.st:6655 >> >> FLASH! The rumor mill is going to be running double-shifts on this one! >> >> I just heard a few minutes ago on the "Computer Chronicles" a brief >> mention of something called "Amiga 3000" in their computer news section. >> After announcing the soon release of an AT Bridgecard and the Hi-res >> monitor, the announcer mentioned the Amiga 3000 which was supposed to >> have 9 megs of memory and a 50 meg harddisk. This might just be a >> fat 2000 to go up against the Mac Too, or it really might be something >> different. No mention about a 68020 though. > >That's not an A3000, regardless of what they're calling it, just an off-the >shelf A2000 with lots of stuff in it, and not a standard Commdore >configuration; I also saw the blurb about the A3000 on the Computer Chronicles show. The interesting thing about this is that, not only is this show heavily PC and Mac oriented, they very rarely mention rumors. Their computer news segment deals almost solely with PC and Mac product announcements. What they called an A3000 did sound a lot like an A2000 packed to rafters with boards. But, they did already announce the A500 and A2000 a long time ago. You all realize that this is the second week in a row that they've mentioned Amigas in the news segment. I see a trend here. Also, they are using an A1000 in the background of the software review segment (a screen that says 'Software Review' and the name of the program), unfortunately they never review Amiga software. Hey, C-A! It's time to get some C-A people on the show to show off what an A2000 can really do, especially to those business types. Right now they think that all you can make an Amiga do is run Boing! and Robocity at the same time (as shown on the Amiga vs. Atari show they did in June '86). Put a demo together that will make even Stuart Chefiet chuck his PC :-). -- -Ken Baer. // Amiga: The PC that CAN walk and chew gum at the same time. \X/ USENET - ...tektronix!reed!percival!baer OR baer@percival.UUCP "The Few, The Proud, The Criminally Insane - Oberlin Computer Science" - me.
malibo@arizona.edu (Rob McConeghy) (12/18/87)
In article <1015@percival.UUCP>, baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) writes: > In article <2940@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: > >> I just heard a few minutes ago on the "Computer Chronicles" a brief > >> mention of something called "Amiga 3000" in their computer news section. Just what is this "Computer Chronicles" show? Is is T.V radio or what? I never heard of it. Info please.
cherry@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (michael cherry) (12/18/87)
In article <3250@megaron.arizona.edu> malibo@arizona.edu (Rob McConeghy) writes: >Just what is this "Computer Chronicles" show? Its a show on PBS. I've only seen it a couple times. In Boston its on about 11:00 am on Saturdays, (the time may be wrong). Mike