Where is Amiga used today?

[orb85750]

Skilgannon suggested that we start this thread, so I'll do so here.  (Maybe such a thread already exists?)  Anyway, I'll place the first entry......

Bowlero Lanes (bowling ally), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  A3000 and A4000 for automated scoring system.

[amigakit]

AmigaKit.com for order processing and document printing :-)

[T3000]

Bowlero Lanes (bowling ally), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  A3000 and A4000 for automated scoring system.

Pictures please....  I mean, really, without pictures, it's just a story. :p

[save2600]

Apparently A500's are used in a car wash somewhere's in FL.

[quarkx]

I wonder if NASA still uses them today?

[tone007]

The US government is sometimes a bit behind, but I seriously doubt they're THAT far behind.

[quarkx]

The US government is sometimes a bit behind, but I seriously doubt they're THAT far behind.

They were using them  (when Hal Greenlee made the Video) at least until 1999
It was on you tube, but I can't seem to find it now.

[Methuselas]

The US government is sometimes a bit behind, but I seriously doubt they're THAT far behind.

*Snort*

[Matt_H]

I wonder if NASA still uses them today?

Some of the NASA Amigas were on eBay a year or two ago. That's not to say there aren't others they're still using, but I suspect NASA's Amiga era is over.

[JimS]

I don't know if they still use it, but the planetarium in Flint,Mi used to use one to control some sort of multimedia system.  It came into my shop for repair once.  I knew a newspaper that used Amigas to do page layouts and manage classified ads.... but that's been years.

[smerf]

Skilgannon suggested that we start this thread, so I'll do so here.  (Maybe such a thread already exists?)  Anyway, I'll place the first entry......

Bowlero Lanes (bowling ally), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  A3000 and A4000 for automated scoring system.

Hi,

I know NASA isn't using them today, they replaced them with PC's back in 1999. I bought one of them back then, the reason NASA used them was because they were the only computer that would self start after a power outage. I also bought one from Pixar when they sold out on the Amiga's.

Anyhow

I have seen an Amiga 1000 in Bill Gates office, it is sitting on one of his office shelves, and I have also seen an Amiga in a junk yard, but I really don't know if it was being used or was there for another purpose. I know where I work they use the Amiga for a door holder and I have seen an Amiga 3000 filled with cement being used as a boat anchor.

smerf

[coldfish]

Back when I was at Uni in 1998 there was an A3000 in the animation lab, that no one used.
I offered to buy it from the lab super but he didnt know anything about how to make that happen.

I even thought about sneaking in one night but they'd have known it was me as I was the only one who'd shown any interest in the thing in years.

Getting kicked out of Uni for an Amiga would've been dumb yet profound end to the story.

[Haranguer]

I've been told that the Orion aircraft flown by the Royal Australian Air Force have Amiga 2000's as their onboard computers.

TAFE colleges in South Australia use Amigas to display the services provide.  They just show slides, though.  My local college, Tea Tree Gully, has an A1200 in a metal case that performs this task.

[persia]

You've been in Bill Gate's office!  What do you do for a living?

Hi,

I know NASA isn't using them today, they replaced them with PC's back in 1999. I bought one of them back then, the reason NASA used them was because they were the only computer that would self start after a power outage. I also bought one from Pixar when they sold out on the Amiga's.

Anyhow

I have seen an Amiga 1000 in Bill Gates office, it is sitting on one of his office shelves, and I have also seen an Amiga in a junk yard, but I really don't know if it was being used or was there for another purpose. I know where I work they use the Amiga for a door holder and I have seen an Amiga 3000 filled with cement being used as a boat anchor.

smerf

[Damion]

Check here, and watch the video under "Kanzi Understands Spoken Language"... there's an A2000 about 2 minutes in. Might be interesting to find out what it's being used for.