The Amiga Is A Toy - By Local Government Official...

[vidarh]

@ Vidarh
(PS:It's always winter here in Scotland, my granda once told me about this thing called the SUN but I think he was making it up...)

Yeah, yeah.. I'm Norwegian. You guys don't know what winter is

(though apparently I probably have a Scottish slave amongst my viking-age ancestors, according to DNA testing one of my cousins had done, so I guess that explains why I'm a bit of a softie when it comes to the weather)

[Franko]

All this nationalistic talk got me thinking back to the good old days of the Four Nations Tournament. Those were the days, when we would we Scots, Irish & welsh would descend on Wembley for the annual nicking of the the hallowed turf and the borrowing of the English goalposts.

That was until the English F.A. chickened out and banned us celts then took the ball and went home saying we're not playing anymore...

But as you know by now I'm a bit of dreamer when it comes to the Amiga and most things in life, never give up hope I say. Well looks like one of my remaining dreams may be coming true again, cos it looks like the Four Nations Tournament is coming back in 2011, albeit without the English (Boo... Chickens... Buck, Buck, Buck) :roflmao:

Four Nations Tournament To Return In 2011

It's amazing but I'm actually in this picture from 1977, when we gubbed ra English 2-1 at Wembley... :biglaugh:



Looks like 2011 will be the time to dig out the old Tartan Bunnet, the Ginger Curly wig and the flared jeans with tartan bottoms... :banana:

@ Cammy
Naw, I just made sure I took a double dose of me medication before he arrived, otherwise I might be up on a murder charge right now...

[Sandman]

Reminds me of the early 1990's when I went into a local computer shop and asked 'do you guys deal in Amiga computers' just to have the nerdy salesguy say "No, we only deal with professional computers in this store" in a snotty tone.  I replied 'oh, you mean like windows computers' in a sarcastic tone and then I was literally asked to leave the store.   I should have contacted the local Better Business Bureau on that but they went out of business in about 6 months.

[A1260]

I suspect he bought one for his kids as a games machine hence the association as a 'toy'.

For the vast majority of the public this is exactly how Amiga was seen.  The marketing Commodore did at the time didn't exactly push it as a serious computer either!

sadly its true and only ibm pc at the time was looked on as a computer, something you used at work...

[klx300r]

...(though apparently I probably have a Scottish slave amongst my viking-age ancestors, according to DNA testing one of my cousins had done....

dude..I'm not even gonna ask:huh:

[Franko]

Yeah, yeah.. I'm Norwegian. You guys don't know what winter is

(though apparently I probably have a Scottish slave amongst my viking-age ancestors, according to DNA testing one of my cousins had done, so I guess that explains why I'm a bit of a softie when it comes to the weather)

Eye but you softy Norwegiks dinnae wer a kilt dae ye, try dain rat an see whit happens tae yer dangly bits in winter... :eek:

[Argo]

Not sure what that means,

He called the limey git a Saxon. Read up on your Scotts English history. The Brits have never treated the Scotts well. Not that they every really got along in the first place.

[Argo]

sadly its true and only ibm pc at the time was looked on as a computer, something you used at work...

 
Oddly, they rarely did work...

[orb85750]

All ya gotta do is towerize that A1200 and it suddenly becomes a "computer" to just about everyone -- even to stupid people.

[tone007]

Eye but you softy Norwegiks dinnae wer a kilt dae ye, try dain rat an see whit happens tae yer dangly bits in winter... :eek:

All this talk of Norway and Scotland reminds me of Orkney!

Look out for Skullsplitter!

[Karlos]

He then had the cheek to say 'but yes, in this day and age no-one would seriously use one of those let alone call it a computer', at this point I promptly told him to shut his ruddy cakehole do his inspection job and bugger off..

Which is no doubt why he's doing such a technically demanding job as working out how much money needs to be screwed out of you based on the size of your house. I would have told him he was paid to tick the relevant boxes and if I wanted technical advice from someone totally unqualified to give it, I'd ring my ISP's helpline.

[JimS]

Not sure what that means, but I offer better-
Let's see, you are required to let in a person you pay with your taxes, who then proceeds to insult you and raise your taxes more. Idea! We have many extra, so how about we export a shipload of 'Tea Party' activists to Scotland? They will follow them around with bullhorns ranting about the taxes, gov'mnt overstepping, and hitler!

You say that as if it were a bad thing. ;-)

[Amiga_Nut]

"The Amiga Is A Toy."
This is a pretty good guage of what the average (non amigan) person thinks of the Amiga in 2010.

Most hobbies involve some sort of "toy".

If they do they are idiots, Amiga was a revolutionary state of the art machine (A1000) to a genuine alternative (A4000 on launch day) and now they are all vintage computers. Amiga was never a toy, it was a creative machine or an awesome [when programmed properly] games computer that did some things better than a Megadrive (shit twangy music) pfff (Lotus II is impossible on the SNES) or PC (shit OS that broke at the mere though of multimedia in 1985-1993) and Mac (overpriced single tasking bollox)

This is my potted history of the computing past, feel free to print this out and superglue it to the eyeballs of non-believing Macwankers/Doswankers/Nintendopes

[fishy_fiz]

I think the "toy" part is possibly a reflection of the times the Amiga was commercially succesful and to a degree Commodore wanting the Amiga to be Commodore64-The Sequel. Back in those days computers were regarded as toys geeks/nerds played with (the fact that videogames were thier main home use probably contributed to this a bit) by the general population. The Amiga500 was by far and away the most popular Amiga sold, and although it could be used for a lot of other stuff, it was considered a games machine. Most of Joe Public with no real interest probably do vaguely remember the Amiga as "oh, they had good games back in the 80's".
  The irony here is that a big, clunky, heavy pc with either monochrome or cga display + beeps was considered a "serious" machine. Also perphaps a touch ironic is that the Amiga's real charms didnt really surface until after it's era of dominance. (sure, for it's time an ocs/ecs amiga had some impressive software, but for me at least the Amiga experience didnt really start maturing until ks2.x/wb2.x and a harddrive were involved, and only really starts shining with '030+fast ram+Ks3.x/OS3.x).

[cecilia]

When I grow up, I want to be able to put in this much snark into my posts :lol:

Man that is epic, cheers for the chuckle

yeah, that was quite brilliant.

and to that tax idiot, I would add: this "toy" also generated Emmy Awards so he can just go suck it.

so to speak  

[B00tDisk]

If they do they are idiots, Amiga was a revolutionary state of the art machine (A1000) to a genuine alternative (A4000 on launch day) and now they are all vintage computers. Amiga was never a toy, it was a creative machine or an awesome [when programmed properly] games computer that did some things better than a Megadrive (shit twangy music) pfff (Lotus II is impossible on the SNES) or PC (shit OS that broke at the mere though of multimedia in 1985-1993) and Mac (overpriced single tasking bollox)

This is my potted history of the computing past, feel free to print this out and superglue it to the eyeballs of non-believing Macwankers/Doswankers/Nintendopes

Oh wow, you sure did tell off 21 years ago.  Man I bet 1989 is feelin' the burn from that one.

HEAR THAT, PAST?  YOU SUCK!