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Offline fishy_fiz

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Re: Who on Amiga.org have you met in real life?
« on: January 14, 2011, 07:52:47 AM »
I've not met any amiga fans in real life since it's heyday, let alone ones from amiga.org. In fact Ive only ever met two people who stayed with the amiga long enough to get themselves an aga machine, one of whom was my brother (who stayed with it a lot longer than anyone else I know, but has now also moved on). The closest I came was a few guys who were representing thier amiga user group at a computer swap meet (I believe often called computer fairs elsewhere), who bought along thier A4k, but absent mindedly had no software to display, so just had a very basic fractal demo running. Upon hearing I was an amiga guy they desperately asked me if I had any amiga stuff with me (bit weird I thought, I love my amigas, but why the heck would I carry amiga software with me in public? :))

I'd like to meet some amiga ppl in real life, but I dont drive and live a few hours away by train from melbourne, so it's not really easy to go to user groups being that its 2 hours to the CBD, then another hour-ish to the only user group Im aware of (in moorabin). Each way this is about 6 hours travel for a 1 hour or so meet.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: Who on Amiga.org have you met in real life?
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2011, 02:07:56 PM »
If there was a conflict in regards to the shipping costs then surely the money should have been returned well and truly before 3 or 4 months ? Not to mention the fact that renegotiating after an auction is finished is a pretty scummy thing to do.

Having said this though, I really should pay a friend of mine for some amiga gear he sold me quite some time ago (although this is different than ebay/strangers).
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.