Amiga is female right?

[danbeaver]

I refer to all of mine as, "Amy" -- Shh, I just don't tell the other Amigas that.

[danbeaver]

As I recall from a talk at an AmiExpo in the late 1980's, the engineers were saying very nasty things about the "Lorraine," which was named after the company president's wife (although I heard she was his "girlfriend."  Certain people felt calling Lorraine a Bitc(h) and a c*nt would not be appreciated by the dude in charge; hence Lorraine became an Amiga (I suppose at the time it did not make good advertising to call it an Esposa, a Chica, or a Señorita).

Ref.: http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/prototypes/lorraine.html

[danbeaver]

Here is another variation on the story:

http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/amiga-origin-commodore.html

[danbeaver]

>But I never considered I was spending time with another girl...
Humm but perhaps with such a background picture I am attracting problems with real girlfriend
http://thellier.free.fr/Grab2.JPG
;-P

Alain Thellier

With that background picture, you are are looking at achondroplasia in "Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformations."

[danbeaver]

Wow!  So much factual information out there on the internet!  But it is right there as if it had been carved into stone tablets by Moses Himself!