Indirect things I learned from having an Amiga...

[J-Golden]

I've been looking and thinking about several of the more recent posts like Amiga New Years resolutions and the like and it made me nostalgic.
 
This lead me to think about other things that I wouldn't known or gotten into if I had not entered the world of the Amiga.
 
International friends: Face it, I'm American and had little to no clue what was going on else where growing up. But owning an Amiga, which I had to convert for PAL and decipher English terms like "Football" or "Bloody" it opened a whole new world to me. I even had to communicate with people from other contries to order parts and software!!!
 
The thriil of the hunt: Again, as a youngster, Amiga was never really big in Maryland and I had to serch and hunt for what I needed. Ofcourse there were all the Computer shops in town that sold PCs and Macs, but they were only good for the odd SCSI Hard Drive. You know a hobby means something to you when you count up your alowence and figure out the exchange rate (without the internet) to figure out if you can pay for your next subscription to AF.
 
Anywho, Just thought I'd share. If you have any enlightening things you'd like to add, go for it!

[save2600]

I'm with you on the appreciation of the international community thing for sure. Amiga has done more to promote that kind of goodwill and relationship building than any other computer platform I know of.

Besides dealing with all things PAL, I learned a good deal about NTSC video work as well. When you think about it, *most* people still do not know squat about editing their home movies or adding titles. Dumping a video into the computer and performing post-editing has become second nature to me now, but I don't know too many people that can say the same.

Moving forward, the Amiga community is still very much alive obviously and I'm learning new things about its spinoffs almost daily. Speaking of spinoffs... anyone else catch the MorphOS usage on 'V' last night? I could have sworn I saw the familiar icons and video player on a Mac laptop that the Fifth Column was using...

[JimS]

One thing for me was using the CLI... When I got a temp job (it lasted 6 years) at EDS working with a unix machine, having had all that experience with the Amiga CLI really helped me. I was able to go past the original job requirements, which I'm sure helped to keep me around there for so long.

save2600: I missed that, I opted to watch the wrap up of "Caprica" instead. Speaking of which... if a 'recap' is a sysnopsis of the 'story so far', what do you call something that's a synopsis of 'the story ahead'. Now that the show is cancelled. they just kinda tacked on a bit showing where they were headed, if those episodes were ever filmed. ;-/