A glossary of Amiga specific terms

[Pat the Cat]

One Amiga term I am very happy to see excluded is "Lamer". I always hated it, such a derogotory, smarta$$ putdown that meant absolutely jack. Why are people ever going to bother learning if they are permanently labelled as a retard?

-John Draper was one of the first people to buy an Amiga and develop for it. He was pretty active but then just disappeared. I think he got arrested for phreaking and was gone for a few years.

News to me. Oh, he's still around. He's due to publish his memoirs and is crowdsourcing it now. He was just at Defcon and is currently freaking about Hutchin's arrest.

http://beyondthelittlebluebox.com/

Facebook page is

https://www.facebook.com/beyondthelittlebluebox/?hc_ref=ART35QzEyarotK2lEq-T0-Gk_THTzLBa7wRz_NBOK5f1eUHICTV0ruTT_RW_sO7hYtE&fref=nf

(Obviously not his personal page).

It's not like I'm best buddies with the guy, was a complete accident getting an intro to him just a few years ago.

[Pat the Cat]

I too was surprised that John Draper was an Amiga user. I know he was was ill earlier this year. Here is a link: https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/02/hacking-pioneer-john-draper-aka-capn-crunch-needs-funds-for-medical-help/

-P

Not just a user, a coder?

I'm pretty sure he was busted twice, 70s and early 80s, and spent the early 90s raving and partying like most of us "sensible" folk. Certainly I've seen photos of that era with him in them. So I don't think he was imprisoned again after his second trial (which he maintains was a setup, a visitor used a blue box from his home to call him at an outside cafe).

Happily he reckons to have reached his health care fundraiser and is now running a sweepstake on the release of his memoirs - cut off date is September 1st, so should be around before then.
 
 

I agree. I think it ranks up there with 'flaming' a new user for asking a question or the often posted 'RTFM'.

 
 The documentation for my Fabscan Pi consists of a sticky label saying "RTFM".
 
 The funny part is, there isn't one. Just a youtube video of assembly. How times have changed.