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2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« on: May 29, 2009, 04:09:43 PM »
I just had a customer buy 2 Amiga 500 motherboards, for his car wash! An amiga 500 is still being used to control a car wash in 2009!
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2009, 04:11:29 PM »
How cool is that.... :-)
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2009, 04:15:21 PM »
Wow, you should see if he will send you pics of his setup.
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2009, 04:39:33 PM »
Incredible! Do you know exactly what its function is? Controlling the car wash mechanism?
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2009, 05:02:13 PM »
That's amazing. :cool:

Last year I got a free "dead" A4000 from a guy running a bowling alley. It was used in the bowling alley for 15 years to run the displays - until the battery leaked and it stopped working. (I cleaned it up. It actually works, but has fast-RAM problems.)

He bought another one and I assume he's still using it for the bowling alley displays. I guess he just doesn't want to buy new computers and software and deal with setting it all up. He didn't seem to know much about computers. (or Amigas)
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2009, 05:09:19 PM »
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Incredible! Do you know exactly what its function is? Controlling the car wash mechanism?


I don't know too many details. I did speak to their repair tech so I could try help verify compatability, but I didn't go too deep with questions as I tried to stay professional :-/ What I did determine is it actually does control the car wash itself to some extent and has a video monitor showing animation during the car wash process.

Here's the kicker, the control software is written in Amiga basic.
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2009, 05:39:33 PM »
Yep, need pics definitely!
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2009, 05:41:14 PM »
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Incredible! Do you know exactly what its function is? Controlling the car wash mechanism?


They scrape bugs off of the windshields with it.  ;-)
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2009, 06:03:01 PM »
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They scrape bugs off of the windshields with it.  ;-)


LOL! That was just plain wrong B00tDisk! lol
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2009, 09:30:15 PM »
I would never have noticed, probably because it's years since any of my cars have seen a carwash :lol:
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2009, 10:25:08 PM »
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I don't know too many details. I did speak to their repair tech so I could try help verify compatability, but I didn't go too deep with questions as I tried to stay professional :-/ What I did determine is it actually does control the car wash itself to some extent and has a video monitor showing animation during the car wash process.

Here's the kicker, the control software is written in Amiga basic.


Wow, would love to know how this is all interfaced.  I guess custom programming was necessary because there simply was never any Deluxe 'Car Wash' written for Amiga.
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2009, 10:28:19 PM »
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...there simply was never any Deluxe 'Car Wash' written for Amiga.


Are you sure it's not in EA's back catalogue? :)

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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2009, 09:05:03 PM »
It seems we have an auto repair shop that still uses Commodore computers, in Annapolis, Maryland! He uses a C-64 for his American car parts inventory!! (this is mostly a "foreign" car shop). He used to sell Amiga A4000s out of the shop, so there are a couple of A4000 machines being used.
I am rarely by this area, but I will have to try to get some pics for you all.
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Re: 2009 - Amiga 500 still being used in carwash
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2009, 11:37:57 AM »
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It seems we have an auto repair shop that still uses Commodore computers, in Annapolis, Maryland! He uses a C-64 for his American car parts inventory!! (this is mostly a "foreign" car shop). He used to sell Amiga A4000s out of the shop, so there are a couple of A4000 machines being used.
I am rarely by this area, but I will have to try to get some pics for you all.


a place near me uses a c128 hooked to an okidata printer to print off invoices.

Its a muffler repair shop.  

The guy was playing jupiter lander on it when we came in...
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