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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <72449@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 16:54:53 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <n1314t@ofa123.fidonet.org> <Bzu958.DvD@news.iastate.edu>
- <72417@cup.portal.com> <72431@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <72431@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
-
- |[Thad sez:]
- |>
- |>Y'know, probably most don't remember this, but at one of the FAUG (First
- |>Amiga Users' Group) meetings during 1986, Jim Becker demo'd his InfoMinder
- |>program with a CD-ROM on the Amiga. Some encyclopedia on a CD-ROM, stereo
- |>sound, and intermixed with the Amiga's generated graphics.
- |>
- |>Stupendous. It brought down the house. And the "house" was packed literally
- |>wall-wall and floor-ceiling in those days (when even Allen Hastings demo'd
- |>his first efforts).
- |>
- |[...]
- |
- |>Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
- |
- |Umm.. I think Jim was using a laserdisc player with InfoMinder,
- |wasn't he? I remember seeing him demoing his setup at one of the very
- |first Amiga shows held near LAX at the Airport Hilton in '86.
-
- Hmmm, could have been (a laserdisc); it's been awhile. Whatever, it sure
- was impressive.
-
- |[...]
- |back in '86 the only Amiga you could buy was the A1000 :-)
- |Ahhh... o/~ memories o/~
- |
- |Harv
-
- While down ol' memory lane, there's a "funny" which probably many weren't
- aware of even at the time: when FAUG was first organized, a meeting place was
- needed. Finally a church meeting hall was secured at an extreme discount ...
- the church people (apparently) thought a "Users' Group" was some kind of
- rehab program and so provided the facilities at a nomimal fee; if they only
- knew! :-)
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
-