Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    ???? hunh?  I do not get it.  Why did wife your have the reaction she
    did?
    
    curious,
    
    mark

     
     My wife is less than enthusiastic with my hobby...
     As I can easily spend an hour or two at my computer (even more after
    everyones sleeping).
     She calls the amiga my "electronic mistress".
     That coupled with the fact that she has no interest in computers, and
    the fact that she thought she had me all to herself for the weekend
    brought on her exagerrated illness at seeing the too familiar sight of
     the Amiga Workbench Requestor.
    
      When she saw the T.V., she asked how I did it!
      
     This isn't all that uncommon among married couples...
      The Hobbies just differ.
    						Ed
                         

    I have been blind!  I've wondered why my girlfriend has started making
    disparaging remarks toward my amiga and technology in general.  I guess
    its time for a long weekend on the coast with my beloved...I wonder how
    Amy will react ;^)
    
    m

    
    My amiga is also known as "The Mistress"..
    
    
    I've been told that the Computer Industry is the only one where
    the other party in a Divorce case is refered to by a serial number..
    
    
    			- Pete -

Mine does the same so this weekend I got her to help me put up an
8'x13' wall mural titled "Earthrise" (enlarged Apolo photo of standing 
on the moon watching the Earth rise above the moon's horizon)!

Her color went from grey to a pale green ;-}

john

    I was talking to Paul Collins (CBM video rep) and he told me many of
    the cable stations are using amigas these days. There are services
    offered to cable companies that come complete with amigas. I was aware
    that many stayions wre using Amigas on a day to day basis but was not
    aware that they were part of a larger package. This of course is good
    for the amiga. CBM is pushing the system as an OEM product. I would
    like to see more used in this manner. The pontential market is vast,
    and of course I can't afford to enter the fray,but AmigaVision with
    a touch screen amiga and kiosks look to me as a sound basis for
    starting a business. 
    	I'm lucky in that I get to play with amy as long as I want with no
    problems with the wife. She works on crafts,I play on the amiga. I have
    it set up in the bedroom,and she watches TV in the evenings while i
    play. I believe their are many wives out there that would love it if
    their spouse traded in the fishing pole,and gun for an amiga. Of course
    now the user base is expanding to the wives,and the problem is for many
    is getting system time. I guess it's the price you have to pay if you
    want an amiga. I sold my easel to a friend with a four year old
    daughter,and guss who wants the system all the time now ?
    								bill  

    Re .6:
    
>   I was talking to Paul Collins (CBM video rep) and he told me many of
>   the cable stations are using amigas these days. There are services
>   offered to cable companies that come complete with amigas. I was aware
>   that many stayions wre using Amigas on a day to day basis but was not
>   aware that they were part of a larger package.
    
    Preview Guide, which MANY cable systems use to display their schedules
    (and produce advertising revenue) is entirely Amiga based (an A500 for
    local input/production and an A2000 with GenLock for the on-air display
    are included in the package), with the schedule information downloaded
    from a master database via satellite.  There's a fairly complete
    description of the system in a recent issue of Amazing Computing.
    
    More recently, one of the contributors to Amazing Computing (possibly
    the same guy who described Preview Guide) has written several articles
    to tell how his TV station uses a flock of Amigas for just about every
    aspect of production.
    
>   I'm lucky in that I get to play with amy as long as I want with no
>   problems with the wife. ... Of course now the user base is expanding to
>   the wives, and the problem for many is getting system time.
    
    I have to fight off my sons (ages 14 & 17) rather than my wife.  [As
    I've noted elsewhere, she's one of those rare people who CAN'T use a
    mouse (she is unable to co�rdinate mouse motions in the horizontal
    plane with icon movement on a vertical screen).  A two-button light pen
    (or maybe a trackball mounted on the side of the monitor) would be
    right for her.]  Our Amiga resides in the basement along with the TV,
    C=128 (she DOES use that, but I have to do the cable swapping when she
    wants to print anything) and Nintendo.
                              

    
    RE: .5
    
    I have been looking for the mural for months. Where did you buy it?

My 21 month old son started crawling onto my chair and poking at the mouse
and keyboard. So I bought a copy of PETE to leave running and entertain
him when the system's not left doing something important. That was a mistake!

Try getting system time from someone who's hasn't yet grasped the
concept of "sharing."

	<mike

re mural:
Edmond Scientific in new Jersey.

You can call for a catalog (great place!)

	609-573-6250
	609-547-3488

john

    Are you guys sure that your significant others aren't just going
    through a buss reset?  You know dark gray, green, red, blue, light
    gray and then the blue of a workbench screen in their eyes?
    
    I ask only because I've seen my wife's eyes go thru all the above
    colors (except the workbench blue).
    
    TOPGUN