Have you made a profit with your Amiga?

[amigakit]

Racks are 19inch - A1200 based- one with BlizzardPPC 060/SCSI - all have Subway USB and CDRWs (using EasyBurn). Memory 64MB and 256MB respectively.

Other Amigas are A4000T and A1200T/Mediator1200SX/BlizzPPC 060/256Mb etc

Everything is networked together (all running EasyNet) with access to broadband internet.

Thanks to the new IBrowse 2.4/Ghostscript/Turboprint, we can now print shipping barcode labels directly from the Amiga- so very little need for other platforms now.

[Akiko]

@amigakit

I like your style! :-D

[InTheSand]

@AmigaKit: fantastic to know that you're running everything with Amigas!

I'd also like to see some photos!

 - Ali

[T_Bone]

Tigger wrote:

I was going to port ImageFX to Amithlon but AI killing that program put the kabash on that.
      -Tig

*cough* aros *cough*  :-P

[Tigger]

First of all ImageFX would have to be completely redone for Aros and remember thats Kermit and the rest of Nova Designs product not mine.   Amithlon would have allowed me to port the original PPC modules which I turned into the x86 Aura plugins to x86 Amithlon modules and we would have had really fast plugins which constantly could have been added to as you convert the code from 68K to x86, since the 68K stuff would have ran under emulation and the x86 would have ran native, more and more could have been moved to x86 modules as part of a transition to x86, all while constantly being available.   The problem with an AROS port is that until its done, you cant sell it, because it doesnt work, with Amithlon, the x86 modules could have been sold as an addon to ImageFX, and then do 2.0 version of the modules etc as more and more of the code moved to the x86 base.
    -Tig

[guest3217]

$$$ure.... Got to eat!
I managed to almost break even after landing a few grants to produce keynote presentations for University/DOE/NASA/DOD crowds in the early-mid 1990's, (right before Amiga, Inc's sh*t hit the fan....)
It was loads of fun to finally put all this stuff into practice!
My largest presentation was for a group of about 250 grad/post grad research interns during the award dinner put on by Sandia National Labs... It was projected on a 11 foot x 11 foot screen and piped into the PA system of the Marriott in ABQ.  I remember people were amazed (and those guys were serious tech heads) that I could do what they saw on the Amiga....That show was entirely rendered on a 030 A1200, dumped onto S-VHS just in case it crashed....
Ahhhh....those were fun days!
 :-P
The funniest this about it....(being that I was a bit turned off by working for "the man"...young...rebelious I was...) was that I managed to misspell the Sandia's VP's name! :lol:
It was "proof-viewed" by his third in command, but wasn't cought until after the big show....
 :lol: I was relieved the VP didn't make that night
  :roll:

[Cyberus]

amigakit wrote:
Webstore is maintained with an Amiga.

Invoice/Packing slip printing by rack mounted Amiga. Ghostscript/Turbo print used.

Order processing by another rack mounted Amiga.

Adverts/marketing materials are designed/editted using Pagestream on a heavily expanded Amiga. Then saved in PDF format ready for printing

What case did you use for rackmounting?
Most cases seem to take max 12" x 13" mobos...
An A1200 mobo, for example, is about 17" long, isn't it?
I don't suppose you have any pics?

Thanks :-)

[amigakit]

@Cyberus

Picture as requested of one of our spare A1200 rack mounts:

http://shop.amigakit.com/catalog/images/A1200-rack-mount.jpg

[Cyberus]

@ Amigakit

Thanks for that!
I've been thinking of rackmounting an Amiga 1200 for ages niow, but the 2u cases I've seen don't look like they'll accomodate an A1200 mobo because of the internals. What case did you use, or did you just get it made?
I've got a mate who works at a design place that cuts metals, plastics etc, but I was hoping I could use an 'off the shelf' case with a few minor modifications...

[amigakit]

These were just bits'n'bobs that we inherited from the recent Eyetech acquisition.  

There is a bit of cutting needed (notice the PCMCIA slot) - also you need to extend all the ports to the rear of the case.  

Then theres the power issue- we are currently developing an ATX to A1200 solution (similar to our A4000-to-ATX adapter)

Dimensions of case are 44x38x8.5 cm

[Amiga_Nut]

I could use an Amiga for work I guess, depends how things have got on since I last used an Amiga (and forgive me if these are silly things that other people know already). Basically I sell laptops on ebay, so all I need is a machine that runs Googlemail, machine that allows the full features of ebay selling forms to be active, something that does what Netscape Composer 4 does and well prior to that AOL too but don't need that anymore so it probably is quite possible to use an Amiga to run my business selling PC Laptops :lol: how cool would that be?

"What laptop do you use then?"

"Err....I don't use a laptop or any Mac or PC equipment"

When would you ever get an Amiga virused surfing the web too, sounds like a good opportunity here :-)

[_yak_]

My Amiga also generated a profit for me at some point. I developed a dictionary program called MultiSlownik (aimed at polish users only). Our ATO section (Amiga Translators Organisation, responsible for example for polish OS4 locales) used my program at some point, maybe they still do . Since I don't own an Amiga currently, the program has been moved to freeware/open source.

[mick_aka]

Over the years I have probably earned about a thousand quid with my Amigas, unfortunately that comes nowhere close to what I've spent on them  :cry:

[Amiduffer]

mick_aka wrote:
Over the years I have probably earned about a thousand quid with my Amigas, unfortunately that comes nowhere close to what I've spent on them  :cry:

That's pretty good actually. That's a 1000 quid more then I've made with my Amiga's.  :-)

[motrucker]

I hope you don't work for the IRS!

[leirbag28]

@Stopthegop
Where in NY are you? I am in Queens! and work in Manhattan.



@Wizardo
WHat did you use for the Presentation?  SCALA?