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[ continuation ] DOT MATRIX printer) in Professional Page for all of about $190! Again, there ARE PD and shareware data base programs available here, or on PeopleLink, or on Bix. But, the commercial variety are very reasonably priced. For example, in the MSDOS world, SuperBase is getting a nice rep. It started on the Amiga, and only costs $90 for the low end version, and $200 for the professional version mail order. With that you can do virtually any data base oriented task, tho commerical data base programs for the Amiga START at about $30 mail order. All that said, if you like computers, you'll love the Amiga. It has incredible graphics and sound capabilities (which is why it has a rep for great game machine, which it is). It also has a VERY flexible OS, and can truly multitask, and has both a graphics user interface (like the MAC) AND a command line interface (like the MSDOS world). And it permits simultaneously running software, from different suppliers and developers, to communicate with an control each other. You will love it if you get into it. Imagine — a potential 8 megs of ram available to the system, autoconfiguring (that means you just plug & play) with NO hassles! Imagine — ONE printer driver for your printer for the WHOLE system!(_every_ piece of software uses the SAME printer driver). Imagine — one, two, four, eight, whatever serial ports working simultaneously with simple software configurations (no COM1, COM2, COMx stuff here). Imagine — ONE basic graphics file standard that permits you to share graphics among a wide range of paint, display and graphics editing software. Imagine — ONE basic sound file format that works the same way! etc., etc., etc. So, if you like computers, you have the hardware. Risk $50 or so to learn about this one. You might surprise the stink out of your employers. (BTW -for a big $200-$300 they could buy you Deluxe Paint III and AmigaVision, which would let you create ON SITE point of sale computer demos to sell [ MORE ]