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What's the fuss concluded!

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From: Sharon
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:00
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	So I know now about the amiga...and here's my review.  I went ahead and
got it!  Looking at this from a standpoint of when the damned thing was
made...a most excellent and superior machine.  From today's perspective I
can describe it best with one word....SSSSSLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!! 
Still I must admit it was kinda cool anyhow and I would be interested if a
new Amiga went on the market.  Until then I can get by happily with my
$250...Thats Right!!! $250 233mhz mmx machine (i built it
myself...Motherboard w\onboard sound and video $79, 486 with 16x cdrom $50,
cpu $59, fan $13 32 mb ram, &1gb hard drive $50, and the folks got me a zip
scsi external drive for xmas :) ).  I cannot say for sure but I believe
that the pc can run Amiga emmulation software...but I know it can do that
for the mac (I am an avid hater of microsoft and support the as little as
possible!).  Anyway I went to the delightful amiga sight by the "ripper"
and found it quite informative!  But I also found much defeatism and
articles that seem to conceed amiga's defeat in the battle with the pc.  I
also found that it seems that new hardware for amiga is expensive and has
to be mail ordered (YUK).  So I decided to sell the Amiga for $30 to
another amiga fan friend and use the proceeds on a faster modem. 
Unfortunately I had let him borrow an old 486 and now he's hooked and wants
instead to buy the 486 and upgrade as I did.  So I guess I'll be looking
for amiga games so I can give it to the kids! 
					Mark-in-the-dark (also Sharon Williams) 
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From: "Sharon" <sharonwill1@netzero.net>
Subject: What's the fuss concluded!
Date: 1999/02/13
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