Amiga Walker

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FastRobPlus wrote:

iamaboringperson wrote:
I think the Walker looked crap mostly because of the beige drives.

That.  Plus all the rest of it! :-)

Haha!  I actually liked the design in a kind of modernesque toaster crossed with a cylinder vacuum cleaner kind of a way.

Those beige drives ruined it though, had the Walker been given drive fascias to match the rest of the case and a slightly less cliff like front then the design would have worked much better IMHO.

It's only in the last few years that computer design seems to have advanced beyond the beige box school of architecture, so in this respect the Walker was way ahead of it's time.  

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Argus wrote:
Whatever happened to the AmiJoe?  That was Dave Haynie's company (name?), formed out of the ashes of PiOS.  I remember seeing a prototype board in Amiga Format at the '99 WOA in Cologne, Germany.  It had a G3 on it and some SIMM or DRAM slots.  

I recall an interview with Dave Haynie when he said that Metabox went pop before they had the chance to develop the AmiJoe design.

It would have forced the development of a PPC native Amiga OS much sooner than OS4....

Good point though, it would be interesting to see if any old designs could be dusted off for OS4, but I guess the bottlenecks inherent in the classic Amiga design would hold things back somewhat.

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Unit21 wrote:
I have a friend who is most likely able to produce "new" walker towers to house the motherboard of choice.

How cool is that?