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Title: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: carls on May 04, 2009, 10:41:39 PM

Hello, the Amiga community! Long time, no see.

Do I spy this correctly? An A2000 or A1500 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O9cYTZXekA

About 2 minutes, 17 seconds into the video, with a nice mandelbrot on the screen. IIRC Clarke used Amigas for generating fractal landscape images for a book of his.

Certainly in good company. First a light discussion on the origins of the universe and life, then a good bash in Sim Earth :-)

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: arnljot on May 04, 2009, 10:49:09 PM

Coolies, but a bit dissapointed really.

I thought it was a "went into a bar" joke.  :-D

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: carls on May 04, 2009, 10:58:08 PM

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I thought it was a "went into a bar" joke.

Well yes, obviously it should be.
>> ...and the bartender, who was a BAROBOT-3000 running MacOS X, turned to Stephen Hawking and the Amiga and said, "my speech synthesis is better than yours." <<

Hilarious! Or not - I'm grasping for straws here, really.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: arnljot on May 04, 2009, 11:03:34 PM

hehe, since I singgered and laughed at that, it's a sure sign that I better head for bed now :)

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: stevieu on May 04, 2009, 11:29:46 PM

Well, it'd be rather fitting :-)

Three wonderful minds, right there.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: carls on May 05, 2009, 12:27:54 AM

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stevieu wrote:
Three wonderful minds, right there.

Absolutely. Dawkins and Adams would have completed the group very nicely IMHO.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: Methuselas on May 05, 2009, 12:37:34 AM

@Carls



Wow! Where have you been??? I haven't seen you in ages!

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: orb85750 on May 05, 2009, 12:52:05 AM

If I recall correctly, Faraday and Edison were heavy Amiga users as well.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke... and an Amiga?
Post by: Voyager74 on May 05, 2009, 07:57:48 AM

Hello right back at ya' "old-timer"!

Nä, du känner inte mig, men jag var bara tvungen att skicka
ett Hallå från ett regnigt Malmö! ;-)

Mvh ; R.J