Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!joseph From: joseph@garfield.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amigas ON TV NEWS and Soup Ad's. Message-ID: <4270@garfield.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 22:51:32 EST Article-I.D.: garfield.4270 Posted: Wed Dec 2 22:51:32 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 01:47:11 EST Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's Lines: 38 Keywords: What a combo! I was just looking at the Journal Diary on CBC (87/12/02). They where talking about this new thing that will soon be on the market for your car. It is called CRAS (I may have the letters off but it stands for Car Radar Avoidance System.). This has been done before but this one works very well and will monitor the conditions faster then the old systems. When the system notices a possible problem it will say "LOOK OUT!" and if you don't do anything it will apply the right amount of breaks. Now hear comes the good part. It runs on an Amiga 1000. Yes I am sure, while they did not say the computer that was being used you could easy make out the Amiga's monitor. And what was on the monitor? A view of the road ahead via GENLOCK (or something like that) and it had all sorts of graphics overlays on the screen. (Real neat looking!) And the voice was a simple bit of digital sound. Well once again I see an amiga doing something very interesting. Oh, while I am at it. I saw this campbell's soup Ad and it is the one where the guy asks the computer is it better to eat it with a spoon or a fork. The computer is an Amiga, as when it starts to freak out up comes a requester on the screen for one flash of a second. I want to know what the requester said! Lets see who can find out first. Long live the COMP.SYS.AMIGA, Joseph Dawson Sysop of BitStop 4 Cork Place St. John's, Newfoundland Canada, A1B 2W4 1-(709)-753-1096 [Data] 1-(709)-739-6546 [Voice]