DO YOU CONFORM?

It seems to me that all of my life I've been kind of a non-conformist.
Maybe all Amiga owners are?  Because the "standard" is a PC, and we haven't
conformed to the "standard" of computing (standards don't mean the best
see!  Betamax was better than VHS, but look what won?  Beta is still used
in the professional industry however).

But I'm like that in other walks of life.  I don't like "popular" music, I
think most of the charts are shite, I like underground techno, house music,
jungle, and like this new speed garage stuff (which is a bit commercial, but
it's good).

I don't eat the same food as most people do, I don't like the same films a
lot of people seem to like.  So I'm not into a lot of the things that most
people seem to take for granted... but maybe I'm just daring, I give things
a try, that most people fear.

But this to me, reflects the Amiga scene as a whole.  We've dared to stick
with our machines, and give them time, unlike the average PC-bod who would
be off like a shot if the PC got into any strife.

We see the Amiga as more of a friend, where as the PC is a tool (as are most
of it's users, but that's another story :-).  But the strange thing is, the
Amiga has taught me to think of it as a friend, and get to know it.  I know
more about the Amiga then I ever thought possible, and because the PC and
the Amiga are both modern machines, a lot of things are similar on the two.
I know more about the PCs at university, and friend's PCs that they do!
Because I learnt it with the Amiga, and can easily transfer it to the PC.
If you can edit a startup-sequence and understand the concept, an
autoexec.bat is a doddle, although most PC users don't know it even exists!

I asked one friend who had a PC, "what size hard disk have you got?" andhe
said "what those disks?  They're about 3 and a half inches" he thought I
meant floppies, because they're hard, he thought the software was all built
into the PC... fool.

+RIPMAG+