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Title: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
Post by: mechy on October 09, 2015, 05:54:09 AM

I stumbled on this earlier while chasing c64 stuff down and hadn't seen this commercial before, i guess it was one of the few schools to get Amiga's way back when:

https://poughkeepsieday.org/creativity-in-the-classroom-the-commodore-amiga-and-pds/

check out the video there.

Title: Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on October 09, 2015, 05:58:59 AM

Watching it now; nice find!  :banana:

Title: Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
Post by: BozzerBigD on October 09, 2015, 07:53:43 AM

A good find! Why wasn't this rolled out to more schools? Acorn and RM seemed to have education all sewn up in the UK :-(

Title: Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
Post by: LoadWB on October 09, 2015, 01:59:47 PM

I cannot help but to wonder where the students in this video are today.

Title: Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
Post by: mechy on October 09, 2015, 04:23:35 PM

hey guys, take a look at this video again and check the A2500 at 1:23 .... is it my imagination or does the power led/etc have some kind of card slots and or a jack for? audio? not like there was SD cards then?
its a odd looking thing.

Title: Re: Amiga commercial i stumbled on
Post by: kolla on October 09, 2015, 09:15:23 PM

Those are sliding potmeters, probably volume control. I have worked in education with student labs, it was not uncommon back in those days to modify computers to have headphone output in front, sometimes even with a little amp inside.