Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!jhunix!ins_adjb From: ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Was : Go-Amigo Now : Bri-wall Message-ID: <2250@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 10 Aug 89 13:33:10 GMT References: <21227@louie.udel.EDU> <16161@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <10609@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 29 I thought I'd say a few words about Bri-wall. Since it is only a 20 minute drive from my home town, I went to visit the store a few weeks ago. Well, it's not really a "store" but more like a small warehouse that allows customers to shop there. They had a fairly complete stock of most Amiga programs, a few books, and a surprising amount of hardware. The Bri-wall employee I spoke with was friendly and courteous. I was allowed to open any box of software in the store and examine its contents, even if it was shrink-wrapped. (They said they would just re-wrap it later.) I did not see any Amigas for trying out the software. Nice place. The only thing I didn't like about Bri-wall was its prices. A flagrant example is MUSIC-X by MicroIllusions: list price $299, Bri-wall price $200, but Abel Supply sells it for $137. Small packages like games and little utilities were about $10 more expensive at Bri-wall than they are at Abel Supply. However, Abel usually takes longer, since they often don't have things in stock. I get my stuff from Abel usually within 10 days. I have no affiliation with Abel Supply and Bri-wall. Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett, Systems Administrator barrett@cs.jhu.edu (128.220.13.4) | | Dept. of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 | | E-mail addresses: ARPANET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | BITNET: ins_adjb@jhuvms.bitnet | | UUCP: ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP noog | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////