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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: cehofer on July 23, 2022, 04:09:37 PM
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Amiga debut July 23, 1985, Lincoln Center, NYC NY with Debra Harry and Andy Warhol.
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An important day! Thanks for reminding us. :)
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I went all out today! My daughters made the cake.
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It is sad. 66 views and only 1 reply???? This forum exists and you all forgot or choose not to give a shout out to the guest of honor.
I guess I expect too much! Would have been nice to see even some of the big guys chime in.
Matt is right, it was a VERY important day. No one had the power, computing, graphics, or stereo audio as the Amiga did in 1985. The whole industry was playing catch-up at that point.
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I went all out today! My daughters made the cake.
Celebrating in style. Really nice. 8)
It is sad. 66 views and only 1 reply???? This forum exists and you all forgot or choose not to give a shout out to the guest of honor.
I guess I expect too much! Would have been nice to see even some of the big guys chime in.
Well, I think part of it is a lot of people being on summer vacation/holiday. The other part is that, unfortunately, AO had a long downtime during the last site upgrade, resulting in losing a lot of traffic once the site was back up. I hope some of those folks will make their way back eventually.
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Thank you for marking that day!
(Sorry I am late to the reply chain....)
I remember seeing the Kansas City A1000 debut. When the showed the boing demo I was sold.
To this day, no computer has been as impressive or as much of a major advance compared to its contemporaries!
Happy Belated B-Day Amiga!
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I came to the party a little late. In 1988, I had a friend in the USAF stationed in the UK. He came back on leave and I was showing him the 386 computer with EGA I was going to buy for $2500 and no audio. He had Amiga World magazine and told me to go see it. I was like Amiga what? I looked up a Commodore store in the phone book and drove there. When I walked in, they had the NewTek demo running with Kiki talking like Max Headroom. I was totally sold. I ordered a 2000HD on the spot with a 51MB HD, 2 MB RAM and a 1084S monitor for $2500.
I expanded with a CDTV and parnet for cdrom and a 250MB Quantum drive and SCSI II Oktagon card.
In 1994 after the demise of Commodore, the same friend found a used 4000/040 for $1600. I bought it off a college student and installed a Phase 5 MKII 060 which I still have.
I am still in awe when I show friends Octamed Amiganuts and other mods. They will say yeah, big deal, it plays mp3. Then I tell them oh no. These are not mp3 but played off the Amiga with sampling.
Everyone that plays Megaball, falls in love with it. Especially, my daughters.
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I just received an email Today from Chronopost, France. Amedia Computers just shipped my X5040 motherboard. How exciting is that?
Update: My new Amiga X5040 is up and running. Very pleased so far.