Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle

[kinshi]

I am an old hat at Amiga who has decided to take a peek back at the system I built my career on.

My name is Chris Edgin, I used to work for ICD, Inc. As tech support/QA (inc international support), wrote all the manuals for the AdRAM, FFV, AdSpeed, AdIDE, and Trifecta, as well as working the company booth at the World of Commodore shows. I was there until they shut their doors in '93.

I was then in tech support/QA at ASDG, Inc. working on AdPro, MorphPlus, and TRexx and was there up to and after they sold to Avid Technology ( I left in 96 in advance of layoffs within Avid.

hehe at one point I had EVERY Amiga ever made (even special imported an A600 from Norway, and a 500+ from the UK)..and I still have my CDTV and A2500. I got curious again to the state of the Amiga world after stumbling across the original NewTek Demo Reel on YouTube and developed a serious case of nostalgia.

Who knows may have spoken to some of you on the phone on support at one time or another or responded to your support letters

EDIT:

Oh and a shout out goes to N.A.R.C (the Niles Amiga Resource Committee).I still remeber the great time we had at your picnic, and I still have the nice plaque you all gave me, and your newsletter 'Picnic of the Gods'. That was an awesome time!

[kinshi]

Fraid I sold off my ICD hardware a long time ago, BUT I do still have all my 'proofs' of the manuals I wrote, specifically for the AdSpeed/IDE, Flicker Free Video 2, and Trifecta. I could scan those and PDF them, just need a place to upload them to.
 
hmm now that I think about I may have an AdSpeed stuck in my CDTV I forget now (I had an AdSpeed/IDE with a 20 MB HDD in my CDTV for the longest time, gotta love the Novia line of laptop HDDs we used to sell hehe)
 
I still reget parting with my A3000, it was pretty well tricked out, complete with Progressive 040, CBM Zorro III SCSI-2 card, and a Picasso II vid card. If I had had any idea there would have ever been an AmigaOS 3.9, I would have kept the rig. Now all I got is my Franken-CDTV and a clunky old  2500.

[kinshi]

Welcome to Amiga.org -- You`ll never leave!!

 
You are probably right....its hard to describe the emotional response I got when watching the NewTek demo reel again , and then I saw the Eric Scwartz Amiga Tribute animation on YouTube.
 
Well, it woke up the Amigan in me. You all know the feeling I am sure, its hard to watch that stuff w/o getting a little choked up. Now I am gonna have to at minimum drag out the CDTV and load up 'Defender of the Crown'  and start thinking how to bring my A2500 up to times.