| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 4854.1 | LEEDS | BAHTAT::BAHTAT::HILTON | How's it going royal ugly dudes? | Tue Jun 25 1991 12:05 | 6 |
| Greg Hilton
Amiga 500, fatter agnus, 1mb chip ram (need fast!)
External floppy
Dataflyer SCSI interface with rz24
Digital vr241 monitor
Vidi-Amiga Framegrabber
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| 4854.3 | | SIEVAX::JAMIE | Batteries not included! | Tue Jun 25 1991 12:52 | 7 |
| Jamie Badman
A500, fatter agnus, 1mb.
External floppy
Phillips monitor.
What's the Digital monitor like Greg ? Are they in plentiful supply
anywhere in the UK ?!!!
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| 4854.4 | Steve Goldstein | ARRODS::GOLDSTEIN | Steve G DTN: 847-5416/5455 | Tue Jun 25 1991 16:46 | 15 |
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Steve Goldstein
London Customer Service (Field Service)
An A500 in a PC Case with a MonAMI 3-slot zorroII adaptor
A Microbotic Hardframe and 8-Up with 4-megs
An HP97544 380 meg SCSI drive
A Philips CM8833 colour stereo monitor
An external 3.5" drive
A Teac 60 meg tape streamer (internal)
A Penril V32 datalink modem
(But I hope very soon to upgrade to a B2000)
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| 4854.5 | Ex pat?? | GVA02::SLOAN | we have met the enemy and he is us | Wed Jun 26 1991 04:14 | 13 |
| I'm not really a true UK Amigan as I live in Geneva. However, I do come
to the UK quite often and I'll be only too pleased to make contact with
others. Sometimes a quick phone call can solve a problem which would
otherwise takes weeks through the notesfile.
AMIGA 500
IMb
External floppy
VR241 monitor ( readily available here in Geneva for about 20 pounds)
LA50 (Also available for 20 pounds)
Use MSH to move things around to and from DECnet
Steven Sloan @GEO
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| 4854.6 | Short but sweet... | DUCK::AYRESR | Victim of Murphys law | Wed Jun 26 1991 04:58 | 26 |
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Russell Ayres
A500
3�" External floppy drive
*Joystick!
*Mouse!
* Well I have to put something down!! Seriously, YT schemes are'nt
well known for their competitive rates of pay so my hardware list is a
little short.
I'm leaving Digital on Friday to go to Brighton Polytechnic to study
for a computer science degree. I'll really miss this conference as a
source of information but I hope I'll be able to keep in touch via the
JANET network.
Thanks a million to everybody who helped me suss out downloading, it's
a sinch once you know how (and have a second disk drive). I'll be back
in two years time for my industrial placement so I'll look everyone up
then.
All the best,
Russell.
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| 4854.7 | <AYR> | ARCCAD::BILL | | Fri Jun 28 1991 08:49 | 7 |
| Bill Gourley (AYR)
Amiga 500, fatter agnus, 1Mb Chip ram, 1.5Mb Fast ram
External Floppy
XCAD Designer
Crossdos on Amy / Softpc on DEC
Aztec C Professional
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| 4854.8 | Absolute Novice | ARRODS::KINGSTONT | | Fri Jun 28 1991 09:30 | 10 |
| Tony Kingston (HHL)
Amiga 500, fatter agnus (I think), A501
Loads of games and looking at educational sw
Just purchased for my son's birthday. Have been making sure it's OK
ever since.
Tony
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| 4854.9 | Another novice. | DUCK::TRIMMINGST | | Fri Jun 28 1991 10:33 | 7 |
| Tyrone Trimmings (WLC) Winnersh,Reading.
Amiga 500.
Loads of flight sims,I'm hooked on them.
Although thats it,I'm considering getting a monitor,not sure which ones
best though,and possibly a hard disk in the future.
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| 4854.10 | Another Scot | BHUNA::GAITKENHEAD | | Fri Jun 28 1991 18:28 | 12 |
| George Aitkenhead @ SQF
A500
� meg expansion
External floppy
Into 'any' simulation's and graphics stuff (Anim's , etc).
Hope to get a Monitor soon and more memory.
Byeeeeeee
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| 4854.11 | Just when you thought it was safe ! | VIVIAN::D_VISTUER | | Fri Jun 28 1991 19:21 | 21 |
| David Vistuer, like Steve G, also from London Field Service.
A500 with fatter Agnus, I did the 1Mb Chip upgrade, 2 Mb of
Fastmem. MC68010 installed.
A590, dumped standard xt drive. Now have 40Mb, 11ms Quantum
(zoooom!!).
1084S monitor, 1 external disk drive, 2 x 2400 baud modems,
Mx80 (yuk!!) printer.
Love Fight sims and arcade adventures. Always on the look
out for useful utilities.
As a quick Ad, I have an Xt drive (20Mb, Western Digital 6
months) and a 3 month old Pace linnet 2400 Quad modem for sale.
Any one interested call 071-412-6278, sorry dont know DTN.
Dave V.
P.S - Anyone have any thoughts about setting up something
equivalent to TAPE:: in the U.K. ?
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| 4854.2 | Fareham (Southampton) | TRUCKS::BUSSINK_E | FireLizards to impress? Email me | Mon Jul 01 1991 03:52 | 13 |
|
Erik Bussink (Industrial Trainee, with Digital 'till Sept 91)
Amiga 2000B , 512kb Chip & 512kb Fast
External floppy
Trumpcard SCSI interface with ST-157n-1 Seagate
8-UP 4mb
68000 turbo 7/14mhz
1084 (mono)
looking for an :
ST-506 interface for RD53 or an RZ disk from Digital
Music Sampler
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| 4854.12 | | SIEVAX::JAMIE | Batteries not included! | Mon Jul 01 1991 04:34 | 15 |
| Seems like there are lots of flight sim fans here then!
I've got F15 II, F29 and Falcon. I find it hard to decide which is
better; F15 II or F29. Falcon takes a back seat (though Falcon 2 with
landscape contours may be a different story). Anyone got any
preferences ? Is there a sim that beats these 2 ?
When's Birds of Prey coming out ? I think that'll be particularly good
but unless they've gone for contours too, Falcon 2 will be the better
buy when it's released.
Just for the record, can't STAND Flight Sim 2!
Jamie.
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| 4854.13 | An Irishman in Scotland | SCOAYR::JNOLAN | | Mon Jul 01 1991 10:34 | 19 |
|
John Nolan
A500
1.5 Meg
Mon Ami Jr
2090 HD controller with 20meg drive
1084 monitor
9 pin printer
DTN 823 3288 (AYO)
Main uses are for Games,( strategic types, Sim City, Populous, etc)
Animations, some programming (AMOS).
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| 4854.14 | Basingstoke Amigan | SAC::JEPSON | Eschew Obfuscation | Tue Jul 02 1991 04:35 | 16 |
|
Andy Jepson @USH (849-3650)
A500 with 1Meg
Just bought it a fortnight ago for my son ... must let him play
with it sometime ... !?
Main uses: games at present ... want spreadsheet/word pro. etc
later ... maybe some recreational programming as well.
Just about to get to grips with how to get odds and ends off the
net and onto the beer-mats ... any local knowledge/experience
gratefully received.
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| 4854.15 | | MINDER::GOODMAN | CSO SWAS Support | Tue Jul 02 1991 09:27 | 12 |
| David Goodman @ MCO (851-2657)
A500 with 1Meg
Phillips Monitor
Star 24 pin colour printer (couldn't afford an LJ250)
Bought it about six months ago. I think my main role on it so far has been
supporting my two sons playing games and my wife using it as a word processor !
Having worked on Vaxes sinces they first shipped I thought PC's were second
class computers but the Amiga has opened my eyes (and shut them again at about
2 o'clock in the morning after a long session of CAPTIVE, LEMMINGS etc)
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| 4854.16 | Logging in.. | SHIPS::NEAL_D | | Tue Jul 02 1991 13:03 | 20 |
|
David, mentioning PC's and Amiga's in the same sentence!
I have recently upgraded from a A500 1meg twin floppy exp to ;
A1500 + s/w (some good some bad, liked sim city)
2090a controller (because it was cheap!) + 40 meg disk
supraRam with 2 meg installed.
Main uses;
dialling in , games, Video (but I keep sending Genlocks back because I get fed
up with the short cables), creating answer phone messages, graphics and
wordpro.
Would like;
A very good DTP package that would give good postscript output, be very
intuitive (because I tend to have spells where I don't use the machine) and
include good graphics support. Dictionary, theosaurus etc go without saying.
More mem to run the above with!
Dave Neal
Decresident at Solent Business Park 7782 2665
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| 4854.17 | NEWBURY AMIGA contact | VANINE::LOVELL | � l'eau; c'est l'heure | Tue Jul 02 1991 14:44 | 22 |
| Chris Lovell
UK Network Services
774-6273
A500 CPU packed up as a CDTV
1 Mb memory
internal CD drive supporting CD-ROM data and standard stereo music
external 3�" floppy
Infra-red remote control
Microvitec Cub hi-res monitor (how the hell do you get this *&#@#$ to work?)
Sony K27 Profeel monitor (real nice)
NO KEYBOARD YET! (still looking for one!)
No hard disk but 1 Gb. RZ57 on order (no SCSI connection yet! - talk about
an optimist)
Looking for PATHWORKS client support so I can serve it from my home VAX system
and run DECnet instead of all this download business.
As with some previous replies, bought for my son's birthday - still haven't
quite convinced him that it is a computer, although we've managed to drive
a little bit of AmigaDOS through the TV remote control (seriously!). Desperately
awaiting a keyboard.
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| 4854.18 | Back in UK soon | SNOC01::JACOBMARK | | Thu Jul 04 1991 02:20 | 19 |
|
Mark Jacob @SNO
Sydney Aust. S/W Licencing (6mth contract)
Formerly VMS Specialist @HHL (Will be back UK in new year)
A500 + 1/2 MEG/CLOCK UPGRADE
A590 + 2MEG
8833 MONITOR
EXTERN 3.5 DRIVE
AMSTRAD CHEAPIE 2400 MODEM
Mouse,Joysticks and various home security attachments ;-)
Loads of PD software and far too many expensive games
Lattice (SAS) C compiler et el.
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| 4854.19 | Belfast Amiga | BELFST::MCCLINTOCK | Peter | Mon Jul 08 1991 11:55 | 36 |
| A500 3Mb (2 in A590)
A590
VR241 Monitor
LJ250 Inkjet printer
VIDI Amiga and RGB Splitter
Digiview Gold
Professional Page 2.0
Prowrite V3.1
Deluxe Paint III
Superbase Professional V3
Infofile
Maxiplan +
Deluxe Video III
Deluxe Music Construction Set
Lots of games and PD software.
This is truely a family computer. The only one who doesn't use it is
the cat, but I'm working on that ... I'm sure I can teach him to use a
mouse!
The children use it for Games, painting, drawing, music and database
(Infofile).
My wife uses it to prepare lessons and handouts, usually with Prowrite.
... and I use it to dial in to work (using VLT), DTP, Database work for
church administration and other activities like Flight Sims etc. for
relaxation.
I think that the real advantage of the Amiga is that it is good at
almost everything from Games to serious DTP and Video. To get
professional software on a PC you need to pay several times the price.
Peter McClintock @BVO
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| 4854.20 | (hi) | FORTY2::CADWALLADER | | Tue Jul 09 1991 13:00 | 6 |
| Hello,
I am a UK Amigan working at DECPark Reading, for about 12-15 months,
feel free to mail with anything interesting etc...
- JIM CAD*
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| 4854.21 | Leatherhead | SEDSWS::DAVIES_D | flying on edge | Wed Jul 10 1991 06:47 | 9 |
|
Hi Greg, we meet again.!
Dyfrig Davies (Leatherhead)
Amiga 500
A501
VR241
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| 4854.22 | An Irishman in Ireland (closer to U.K. than states | SIOG::WOODS | | Wed Aug 07 1991 08:56 | 11 |
|
A500
8084 monitor
external 3� drive
512k exp.
9 pin dot. printer
Looking around for 20 meg hard disk, so if theres anyone selling
one real cheap give me a shout.
Woody
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| 4854.23 | Newbury - a place to drive through | NEWOA::EVANS | Honi soit qui mal y pense | Fri Aug 09 1991 08:11 | 13 |
| A500
A501
External 3� cumana drive
8833 monitor
STAR LC24-200 colour printer
2400 modem
Looking for a huge hard disk and a massive memory upgrade - or better
still anyone fancy giving me their 3000???
Leaving Digital 16/8/91 so don't really know why I'm bothering 8*)
Jon in NEWBURY or soon not.
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| 4854.24 | | LARVAE::MUNSON_P | Japan is special for that.... | Mon Aug 19 1991 08:17 | 11 |
| A500
� meg Expansion
Scart Lead to make my TV think it's a monitor
2nd floppy drive
Main use is for games, although I'm just starting to use it properly
for various things (music, programming (AMOS) etc.)
(��)Munce
PS. Based at Snams in Basingstoke....
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| 4854.25 | Ian Hawley | COMICS::HAWLEY | I dont want to go on the cart! | Tue Sep 03 1991 07:27 | 10 |
| A500
512k expansion
Mainly use it for games and for music programming.
almost got into mcode programming on it once, but gave in and sold the
book.
oh well,
Ian.
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| 4854.26 | Another Reading Amigan | SUBURB::BARTLEYM | Mike Bartley - Reading | Fri Sep 06 1991 06:53 | 20 |
| My son has
1MB Amiga A500 with external 3.5" floppy, +
ancient Epson FX80 parallel printer
Personally I'm no whizz on the Amiga, but keep an interest in this
Conference.
By the way, I recently found out the price of a second-hand VR241
monitor in the UK: 82.25 pounds sterling (inc VAT). This was an
employee purchase, but strangely no discount was shown. Perhaps they
don't discount second-hand goods for employees.
My real reason for logging in here is that I need to work from home,
and ideally would like to use the Amiga rather than take extra kit
home, other than a modem. So, if I want to set up the Amiga using
Smokey, how do I get the emulation software into the Amiga? So any help
would be appreciated.
Mike.
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| 4854.27 | another uk amiga man | YUPPY::MEADOWS | Chaz 'Joe Bugner' Meadows | Fri Sep 20 1991 13:02 | 27 |
|
Chas Meadows
Customer Services hhl4 (London)
Only just bought the Amiga from a friend, who bought it for his son
last Christmas but decided it was to complicated (who am I to argue). I
has remained in its boxes unused except for a quick try to make sure it
worked. everything cost him 800 pounds plus sold to me for 350 it
includes
Amiga 500 with Commodore 512k upgrade
Phillips Colour monitor
Midi music interface inc Mr T software (not wanted if anyones
interested)
Tons of books
Box of blanks
Loads of software in wp, d,base, spreadsheets (this for an 11 year old
kid) plus a few games, flight sims and deluxe paint 111
Intend to get another external drive and hard drive in the near future
and a printer one day soon.
By the way the guy that sold me the above got a Christmas bonus last
year in excess of 500.000 yes you read that right half a million, more
money than sense.
Chas
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