Amiga 2000 in Ikea Commercial

[Plaz]

I saw the commercial too. I did a double take. It was so quick I almost missed it. Ikea was flashing pictures of different items lasting no more than about a second each. The picture of the A2000 came and went, and I said "did I just see that?" The color didn't look right though. The front bezel looked the color of an A1000, but it definitly wasn't a 1000 and looked like a bleached 2000. Then about 15 seconds into the commercial they post a message some thing like "the world is not beige."

Then you relize all the pictures they just flashed were mostly colorless and beige and then they go on to show  more pictures of their vividly colored furniture and decorations. So was the Amiga being dissed, or did an old amiga fan find a way to slip the 2000 in to 2 seconds of lime light? :-)

I hope you can pull the recording off DVR and post it for the rest of us.

BTW, I've bought funiture at Ikea and was very pleased. You have to shop carefully though. If you buy the cheapest products from them, you get what you pay for.

Plaz

[Plaz]

I recall the picture of the 2000 having a much lighter front bezel, but they could have used that stock photo and played with the color.

I've worked hardware repair since 1984, and the keyboard in that 2000 photo looks very much like a faded keyboard from and AST 286 system from about 1990.....

http://www.abcresellers.bigstep.com/Images/DataTech-turboXT.jpg

I sure don't miss 5 1/4 floppies.

Plaz