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Title: Amiga spotted on the news
Post by: pjhutch on December 16, 2004, 09:33:25 AM

I was watching the 6 O'clock news this week and they did a news spot on dangers of Chat rooms and they showed an Amiga 500 with a kid clicking on a few WB 2 icons (no browser) as they  did some bullet points over it. Anyone else see it?

Title: Re: Amiga spotted on the news
Post by: Karlos on December 16, 2004, 12:09:03 PM

It would be some old archive footage grabbed in a hurry no doubt,

"We need a shot of an innocent looking kid using a computer, like 15 minutes ago..."

I'd be a bit surprised if there was some deliberate selection going on in the editing room.

Then again, you never know :-)

Title: Re: Amiga spotted on the news
Post by: keropi on December 16, 2004, 12:49:36 PM

lol, lame-journalists!
Here, they made a story for hackers, and showed an even lamer 15 yo kid, looking at a PC's BIOS setup...  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Re: Amiga spotted on the news
Post by: Holley on December 17, 2004, 10:27:55 PM

NBC once used the old PC joke program 'drip' to show what a virus looked like ... that was in about 1985 though ...

Title: Re: Amiga spotted on the news
Post by: Hyperspeed on December 18, 2004, 02:45:49 AM

I'm sure I've seen library footage of an A1200 on the 6 O' Clock News.

Didn't they use an Amiga 500 with Hanna Barbara animation software on
Rolf's Cartoon Club?

I bet the graphics on kids' TV show Nightmare were Amiga genlocked
too...

:-D

Title: Re: Amiga spotted on the news
Post by: Waccoon on December 18, 2004, 06:03:53 AM

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NBC once used the old PC joke program 'drip' to show what a virus looked like ...

That's still not as bad as the America Online commercials featuring coughing disk drives.  I doubt more than 2% of PC users know how viruses really work.

Title: Re: Amiga spotted on the news
Post by: Dr_Righteous on December 18, 2004, 06:10:55 AM

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I doubt more than 2% of PC users know how viruses really work.

Amen brother... How many people do YOU know call these scripts that run rampant on the net these days "Viruses?" UGH!!!

Title: Re: Amiga spotted on the news
Post by: Holley on December 20, 2004, 03:26:57 PM

Yeah, though calling them things like 'malware' is kind-of annoying too.  I just call them bugs if people ask.