From: summ50@cse.unl.edu ()
Subject: Re: A growing dislike for Amiga
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 06:30:28 GMT

nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham) writes:


      [Lots of stuff deleted]


>>What do I do?  I am a student in engineering so I go looking for
>>some good graphing programs, a spreadsheet, think I found anything?
>>Nope.  Except of course lots of pretty games.  What a nice game 
>>computer, Commodore. 

>I was an engineering student (just graduated) and Amiga worked great for me. 
>(And for a couple of my friends who I talked into buying Amiga.)  I found a
>great graphing program called Multiplot and it was public domain.  And I
>used Maxiplan as a spreadsheet and it was great.  I liked it better than
>Excell on the Macs at school for the things I used it for.  I'll never
>forget the time I had to enter about 300 data points (six entries per point)
>for a survey we did in my surveying class.  I just keyed them in fast and
>furious and then had the software read the data back to me while I looked at
>the field book and caught all of the mistakes in one pass. 

>And then I used Mac emulation a lot.  It was great.  I had a couple of
>classes that revolved around Mac software.  One was a planning & scheduling
>course and the other was a cost analysis course.  While everyone else was
>fighting over who got to stare into one of those 9 inch monitors and wait
>for AppleTalk to respond, I took the software home and ran it on my Amiga at
>my leisure.  

>And while I'm on the emulation subject, I used one of the best DTP packages
>on the market which is Design Studio for the Mac to do my resume... on my
>Amiga and then printed it out with a friend's Laserjet.  And I did all the
>cover letteres with Claris Works so that the fonts and style matched the
>resume.

>And I am currently learning MSdos on my Amiga and hope to have Windows
>up and running before too long.
> 

>>Yes, these are simple reasons but simple reasons are why people buy
>>computers.  Businesses use them for simple tasks like printing out
>>customer address labels, correspondence, even keeping financial 
>>records..   Graphic artists, who are probably the only ones who even
>>care about the such great multiitude of colours and graphics
>>'capabilities' can probably complain about the slowness of the machine.


>Actually... one of the biggest selling points of the Amiga to my engineering
>friends who bought them was the quality of Amiga games. ...along with other
>things such as those mentioned above.  I mean... if you are going to sink
>a lot of money into a computer, why not get one with a lot of versatility? 
>:)  



>                                    NCW


	I just graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in August,
	and for the last year and a half that, I had an Amiga 3000 which
	I used for everything just fine.  I used excellence! 2.0 and 
	ProCalc.  It was so incredibly easy to, for example, incorporate
	graphs from ProCalc into reports in excellence!, while all the
	other people using WP and QuattroPro on IBMs had a hell of a
	time... I also used the demo version of DynaCADD to do a lot
	of drawings, and since the demo couldn't save, I just used a 
	screen grabber to grab the drawing and save it as an .iff file
	to easily incorporate into the report.  People using AutoCAD
	(besides having to put up with an inferior (in my opinion) to 
	DynaCADD CAD program) :)  had to convert the A-CAD picture
	to some format, then to another to bring it into WordPerfect.
	What a pain!!!  

	And while I never had to use Mac or IBM emulation, I also used
	a couple of wonderful terminal programs (JR-COMM and term 2.2)
	to do stuff on the VMS and UNIX machines on campus...  two term
	programs which are MUCH better than the Telix my friends used
	on their MS-DOS machines....

	Plus, I got to play some great games in my spare time (What spare
	time?!?)

	Also, for those rare occasions I had to collaborate with several
	people on reports, and the group put the reports together on
	the MS-DOS machines in the computer labs, I just did my part
	in excellence!, and saved it in ASCII format onto an IBM formatted
	disk using MultiDOS, and then loaded it into WP on the school
	machines to merge with the others' work.....

	I got by just fine, and never once wished I had bought an MS-DOS 
	machine instead (which I almost did, until I saw an Amiga in
	action, and, coming from a C-64 background, just had to have one!)

	

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|    Eric Elliott            summ50@cse.unl.edu         GEnie: E.ELLIOTT7   |
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