Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!cornell!mailrus!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!brspyr1!davef From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga & Mindset Summary: Available Message-ID: <4235@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Date: 9 Aug 88 20:12:30 GMT References: <7958@cup.portal.com> <7979@cup.portal.com> Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 41 In article <7979@cup.portal.com>, Chad_The-Walrus_Netzer@cup.portal.com writes: > In a previous articlewrites: > )I was talking to a person I know who was telling me about his Mindset > )computer. How Great it was and all... He said that there where MANY things > )the Mindset could do that the Amiga could not even touch. Now if I am not > )mistaken.. The Mindset is not even made anymore correct?? He said that it > There is indeed a Mindset computer, and it does indeed do "alot" of the > things the Amiga does... In fact, the Amiga designers most likely 'borrowed' > some of the ideas that the Mindset first pioneered. (RJ Mical mentioned this > a while ago.) It was/is also a neat computer and is still around, although > Mindset the company is not... In fact, Mindset used to be located just down > the road from HT Electronics, in Sunnyvale, on Maude Ave. At least this was > the case until about 3-4 months ago, when a new company finally moved into the > ..... > It is indeed true, and I would suggest you get your friend to show you > the Mindset... You will be impressed, although the Amiga is seperior overall. > (Multitasking, etc. besides the fact that they are still being made...) Strangely enough, I was considering buying a Mindset recently, because there was an ad in the May issue of Byte--a place called American Design Components, 62 Joseph St., Moonachie, NJ 07074, is selling them for $299! I did a bit of research, and it seems to be true that the Mindset did some pretty zippy graphics stuff--one article even mentioned that some producers of TV commercials with computer graphics were using Mindsets. I decided against it because I could not find any recent articles about the thing--most of what I located were about the time the Mindset came out, and probably mostly based on manufacturer's press releases. There was some indication that the MS-DOS compatibility was not complete, and some references to mistakes in the documentation that comes with it, and I decided it would be wiser to save up and get an Amiga 2000, where there is more user-group and BBS support. If anyone is really interested, email me, and I can steer you to some articles, but most of them were rather vague on specifics and some were in magazines long since dead. -- "SURVIVORS OF 1917 UFO Dave Fiske (davef@brspyr1.BRS.COM) CRASH FOUND IN ANTARCTICA!" Home: David_A_Fiske@cup.portal.com Headline from Weekly World News CIS: 75415,163 GEnie: davef