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Offline mechyTopic starter

Amiga commercial i stumbled on
« on: October 09, 2015, 05:54:09 AM »
I stumbled on this earlier while chasing c64 stuff down and hadn't seen this commercial before, i guess it was one of the few schools to get Amiga's way back when:

https://poughkeepsieday.org/creativity-in-the-classroom-the-commodore-amiga-and-pds/

check out the video there.
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2015, 05:58:59 AM »
Watching it now; nice find!  :banana:
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Offline BozzerBigD

Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2015, 07:53:43 AM »
A good find! Why wasn't this rolled out to more schools? Acorn and RM seemed to have education all sewn up in the UK :-(
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Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2015, 01:59:47 PM »
I cannot help but to wonder where the students in this video are today.
 

Offline mechyTopic starter

Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2015, 04:23:35 PM »
hey guys, take a look at this video again and check the A2500 at 1:23 .... is it my imagination or does the power led/etc have some kind of card slots and or a jack for? audio? not like there was SD cards then?
its a odd looking thing.
 

Offline kolla

Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2015, 09:15:23 PM »
Those are sliding potmeters, probably volume control. I have worked in education with student labs, it was not uncommon back in those days to modify computers to have headphone output in front, sometimes even with a little amp inside.
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