It was ahead of its time. Don’t forget PC’s of the time period were no where near to doing what Commodore were releasing hardware wise. The Amiga had a custom chipset which produced Sound and Graphics. It can multi-task. Okay it wasn’t PC compatible so therefore you couldn’t run things like WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 etc… But things like games and the Demo Scene started because of this system.

The Amiga already had PC emulation software at its launch event in 1985! It was shown running MS-DOS or IBM PC-DOS. I think this was the Transformer software. Later on, there was PC Task.

Of course, PCs are crap and have only continued because they came equipped with lots of slots for plug in cards, which the most popular Amiga models didn't have.  Obviously, the less popular A2000, A2500, A3000. A4000, and A4000T models, as well as any more rarely produced variations on those models, such as the A1500 and any I may have missed DID have expansion slots! The A1200 trapdoor slot is actually a Zorro II slot, but I'm not sure if the A500, A500 Plus, or A600 trapdoor slots are Zorro II. Third party expansion units such as the Bodega Bay and Checkmate Digital A1500 didn't produce enough units to give all Amiga A500, A500 Plus, A600, or A1200 users an upgrade path of various Zorro II cards. I once phoned a company advertising in Amigaworld magazine to try and order a Bodega Bay expnsion for my A500, but they just said "Uh, we have not been able to get a hold of those lately". I didn't even know that the Checkmate Digital A1500 added any Zorro II slots to the A500!

Of course you could run WordPerfect on it if you wanted.

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Greetings!

Our next SACC meeting is this Sunday, May 19th at 1:30 PM. We will be meeting in person at the Holiday Inn and on-line.

The meeting agenda and hotel information is on the homepage of the club website. Go to www.sacc.org/index.shtml to check it out!

I’m happy to add your topic or project to the Agenda, just reply to this email with your topic. The URL for the online Jitsi meeting is: meet.jit.si/SacramentoAmigaComputerClub

Thanks,
Jerry Gray - SACC VP

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