Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!king From: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wedge Prices being Rip Offs????? get Serious. Message-ID: <2562@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 08:35:48 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.2562 Posted: Tue Dec 1 08:35:48 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 01:18:53 EST References: <8711260340.AA02637@jade.berkeley.edu> <205@dalcsug.UUCP> Reply-To: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 26 Summary: In article <205@dalcsug.UUCP> peter@dalcsug.UUCP (Peter Philip) writes: >A bit of trivia ... Commodore releases most hardware in Canada FIRST! >yes, thats right, I was playing with an A500 and A2000 with bridge board >(not mine :-( ) at least 6 weeks before I started seeing "The 2000 is >here!!" messages on the net. Yes, and we also got genlock before the US. It is not readily apparent why; perhaps we are being used as a BIG beta test sight :-) Didn't CBM start out life as a computer store on Yonge St. in Toronto? >I better go ... there are some polar bears threatening to knock down my >igloo that I store my fish and deer carcases in! :-) :-) I used to live in Windsor (across the river from Detroit), and every summer we would see people coming across the border with skiis on the roof of their cars! (not a lot of people, mind you, but often enough to make us wonder about the American educational system) It was priceless to see their faces when they were told they would have to travel about 1000 miles (or more) to find snow. :-) :-) Now, where are my snowshoes? I'll just pop out to the local trading post for some pemmican... ...sjk -- * Defence & Civil Institute * ...!utzoo!dciem!king * of Environmental Medicine * Stephen J King - Simulation & Training Group - (416) 635-2149