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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: redrumloa on May 29, 2009, 04:09:43 PM
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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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How cool is that.... :-)
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Wow, you should see if he will send you pics of his setup.
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Incredible! Do you know exactly what its function is? Controlling the car wash mechanism?
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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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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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Yep, need pics definitely!
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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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They scrape bugs off of the windshields with it. ;-)
LOL! That was just plain wrong B00tDisk! lol
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I would never have noticed, probably because it's years since any of my cars have seen a carwash :lol:
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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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...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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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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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...