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Offline amiman99Topic starter

Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« on: May 16, 2013, 04:50:36 AM »
I was browsing Ebay for some Apple Macs looking for some cheap CPUs to salvage from and came upon the PowerMac 6100. And then it hit me, that looks like Amiga 1000.
Did Apple copied the design? To me it looks like they did!
Here is a composite picture I made to make the point.

and today they're suing Samsung for copying their iPhone, hypocrites!
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A500 KS 2.1, 1MB Chip, 68000
A600 KS 3.1, 2MB Chip, ACA630 32MB RAM
A1000 KS 1.3, 8MB RAM
A1200 KS 3.1, Blizzard IV 50MHz 64MB RAM
A2000 KS 2.1, 68030 25MHz, 6MB RAM
A3000 KS 3.1, 68030 25MHz, 16MB RAM
A4000 KS 3.0, 68040 25MHz, 16MB RAM
CDTV KS 3.1, 4MB RAM
CD32
(AROS BOX) Dead :(
 

Offline amiman99Topic starter

Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2013, 05:13:02 AM »
Quote from: Matt_H;735159
That Apple case didn't appear until 1993, 8 years after the A1000. I suspect the A1000 was long forgotten in the halls of Apple by then. Probably just a coincidence.

Besides, there's no keyboard garage :)
Maybe case designer was a secret Amiga fan, who knows...
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A500 KS 2.1, 1MB Chip, 68000
A600 KS 3.1, 2MB Chip, ACA630 32MB RAM
A1000 KS 1.3, 8MB RAM
A1200 KS 3.1, Blizzard IV 50MHz 64MB RAM
A2000 KS 2.1, 68030 25MHz, 6MB RAM
A3000 KS 3.1, 68030 25MHz, 16MB RAM
A4000 KS 3.0, 68040 25MHz, 16MB RAM
CDTV KS 3.1, 4MB RAM
CD32
(AROS BOX) Dead :(
 

Offline amiman99Topic starter

Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2013, 04:21:55 PM »
I did not know that about the Atari Microbox and PS2, nice little fact.

I can see Commodore using their own design in their own products.
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A500 KS 2.1, 1MB Chip, 68000
A600 KS 3.1, 2MB Chip, ACA630 32MB RAM
A1000 KS 1.3, 8MB RAM
A1200 KS 3.1, Blizzard IV 50MHz 64MB RAM
A2000 KS 2.1, 68030 25MHz, 6MB RAM
A3000 KS 3.1, 68030 25MHz, 16MB RAM
A4000 KS 3.0, 68040 25MHz, 16MB RAM
CDTV KS 3.1, 4MB RAM
CD32
(AROS BOX) Dead :(
 
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