Amiga 30th in California - photos and videos

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Colin Proudfoot tells Commodore tales at the Amiga 30th banquet....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH6iz4FkLtg

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Awesome.  So you're the Alabama guy I spoke to!

I was sitting with Colin Proudfoot, Anneke Leigh, and Allan Havemose at the banquet.  It was quite an honor.  I met another Amiga user and his wife -- I disappointingly cannot remember their names -- and we spoke for a while about Amiga, Commodore, and family.

Hey, you must be the Florida guy I met! Hehe. I was at the same table I think but sat down late in the front and pretty much needed to turn my back on everyone to see the stage. I hope someone recorded and posts Bill Hart's remarks .... I was out of storage media for video by that late in the evening. Bill told stories I had never heard before.

EDIT: I am uploading a photo gallery from show prep that was done at Dale Luck's house.... be back shortly with a link. I have lots of photos from the show that I will start editing and posting tomorrow if I can.

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Here's my first set of photos from the Amiga 30th festivities in California this past glorious weekend....

http://www.thevideojunkie.com/Amiga30/showprep/

This is some behind-the-scenes show preparation going on in Dale Luck's back yard. Dale was one of the core OS engineers who helped create Amiga for us, and his home and yard and outbuildings and trailers and vehicles are LOADED with Commodore and Amiga history! It was a pleasure just being on the property!

Thank you, Dale, for giving me a Robocity poster from the 2nd Annual Developers Conference while everyone was packing up and clearing out of the Computer History Museum. I will get it framed and hang it in a place of honor in my home .... i.e., somewhere close to my Miggies.

I'll try to get some pictures from the show itself posted online tomorrow.

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Here are my show photos....

http://www.thevideojunkie.com/Amiga30/show/

Sorry, but I ran out of time for caption writing before my road trip tomorrow, but I will try to add some captions with IDs of the people and machines that I know when i get back from my trip. I don't know every name, so if I miss any we can always add those later. Enjoy!

Still in a great mood from this event..... love all these people and all these machines and all this software and everything. Makes me wish real hard there was a way for me and many others to make our livings in the Amiga realm.... but that's for some parallel universe where the train did not come off the tracks.

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Because I was rushing for another trip soon after my California Amiga trip, I initially uploaded most of my Mountain View photos without any captions. Thanks to Paul Sadlik for helping me place or confirm a lot of IDs of attendees and VIPs. Now I have re-uploaded my Amiga30 photo gallery with captions. If anyone spots an ommission or a mistake, just send me a PM and I will make the addition or correction. Thanks!

Show photos... http://www.thevideojunkie.com/Amiga30/show/

Show prep photos (from Dale Luck's house)... http://www.thevideojunkie.com/Amiga30/showprep/