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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: kd7ota on October 01, 2009, 05:28:23 AM
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Hello,
Well after being at Fort Hays State University for 5 years, i BARELY noticed something tonight... While I went to Heather Hall (Where the video/campus radio station is located in), they have a display case with the "older" technology, like video cameras, cards, sound equipment etc, to show some of the university's history, and sure enough, i happened to spot this mouse.
(http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/images/amiga-mouse.jpg)
I was actually amazed..... I did happen to spot a Newtek Binder in another room of that building, and im sure at some point this University actually had Amigas in their video studio...
I might have to ask a few people next week to see if the instructors know anything about it lol.
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There were a few "left over" unused Amiga 3000's in the back rooms of the animation lab at my Uni'.
I probably could've taken one and no one would've cared but I'm too damn honest. Besides it wasn't worth getting kicked out over, if someone did care.
I asked around to see if I could buy one but none of the staff knew how to proceed. Sad thing is they probably got thrown out as junk, when I checked a few months later they were gone.
At Uni' a lot of older computer technology would get put away in these rooms waiting to go to the junkyard, hardly any of it went back into use. Along with the Amigas, there was all sorts of cool 80's- 90's stuff including Acorns and SGI machines and a massive cell animation rig.
It still bugs me a bit that I didnt find a way to rescue some of that stuff.
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Back in the mid 90's my dad worked at a university and they had a massive amiga video suite. I remeber the day they chucked them out. Me and my dad drove past and saw 3x A4000 and an A2000 all stacked on top of each other next to the skip. With boxes fully of genlocks and video overlay addons. We took the lot :P
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There was an A2000 at my CIS department and the radio station had an A3000. There were more Amigas kicking around than people really new because they were in back rooms doing stuff.
Ah, the good old days. I miss them.
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No doubt... Just good to know they were doing their thing on Amigas. :)
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I used to work on a TV station. The first day I went to work down there was the exact day of hardware replacement. They were bringing PCs taking out the Amigas... :(
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My uni use to run 8 A2000 heavily expanded. Toasters, TBC's, broadcast cards, GVP 030s & 040s (RAM fully populated) plus a pair of 1084S for each machine. Dream machines.
When I noticed the units didn't show up on the (abandoned) corner they use to be I run to the computers administration room, just to discover they sell the computers to a recycle service who grind(!!!) the units to use the remains as concrete charge! :(
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Our university has/had several Amigas too. A4000/060 with PIV, scanner, mufs with personal accounts, network printing etc was for students' use. A3000 in video studio with some GVP stuff and later with PIV. It ended up in students use too. There were A2000 and other Amigas also around the uni...
Luckily there is at least one (once) official Amiga admin around, who takes care that nothing gets dumped :)