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Re: What was your amiga like in 1994 ?
« on: October 24, 2010, 04:33:53 PM »
Quote from: Buzzfuzz;586713
I wasn't expecting a different outcome either.
Use of Amiga's professionaly was usually for local cable news here in the Netherlands and some people used it for multimedia with Scala, but I guess that was very limited cause PC's were much faster those days anyway.


Not quite, from my personal experience... :)

Way back at the end of 87 and the start of 88 I set up my very first business (D.T.P.) using just a couple of  A500s and some old Star dot matrix printers, It started via the Prince Of Wales Trust and I made a tidy profit for nearly two years creating Logos, Flyers, business card designs etc... for other local companies.

I always remember one of the board members of the Prince of Wales Trust, saying to me that 'computers would never replace traditional methods of graphic designers & artists in the world of business design'... (but then the old guy was in his late 70s and computers to him were just a new fangled fad that wouldn't last...) :biglaugh:

Any clients who came to visit my premisses were totally blown away with the graphics capabilities of the old A500s and thought that these machines were totally amazing in comparison to the green screen PCs they were still using back then. Just goes to show how far ahead the Amiga was way back then. :)

Back to 1994, I still had my A1000 an A1500 two A500s & 2 A1200s the most souped up were the A1200s with GVP030 + 16Meg ram + tiny 120Mb HDs...