#Amiga in Time
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The special issue of Time magazine, "Beyond the Year 2000" has only one
advertiser: IBM. Every ad in the mag is from IBM, but on page 2 is a
picture of Arthur C. Clarke (who has a short story in the issue–only the
second time Time has published fiction in its pages), sitting in front of
his Commodore 1084 monitor, with part of an A3000 keyboard and the edge of
the computer showing. And, above the monitor is a big red sticker with big
yellow letters: "AMIGA FEVER!" Great!
I recall, many years ago when I was chairman of the UK Commodore Users
Group (ICPUG), I had a phone call about Arthur C Clarke. It was from
either his brother or son (I can't recall precisely) who was looking for a
powerful machine for Clarke to do Word Processing on. He'd heard of the
Amiga but didn't know know if it would do the job, and had spoken with
Commodore here in the UK, but they were of little help
After a long discussion, he was convinced … and I then put him in touch
with the right person in Commodore UK. I believe that they gave him an
A1000 which they shipped out to Shri Lanka.
It's good to know that he's still using Commodore technology!
Mike (from the UK)
Commodore should contact TIME magazine and purchase the rights to the
picture. They should then blow it up to poster size and make it available
to Amiga users. Sell like hotcakes, I bet. I'd buy one.