Where is Amiga used today?

[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.

[orb85750]

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

I live in the USA.  I sold my 1950-B monitor on eBay to a Canadian user that runs the bowling ally there.   He told me that they needed one to replace another 1950-B that stopped working.  Why would he (or I) fib about such things?  -- I don't have images, but you can make a phone call to that bowling ally to inquire for yourself whether Amiga computers are still used for their scoring system.  But when you ask them for images as proof, they may hang up on you.

[jagoche]

A regional TV in Slovenia still makes "video pages" using A4000. They broadcast 6 hours of video pages a day next to their regular program.

http://www.vtvstudio.com/e107/page.php?3

[Voyager74]

Regarding the article NASA using Amiga;
http://www.upchug.com/HalInterview-eng.html

[persia]

Actually turns out we did have one running a kiosk board here at the Uni, but it was replaced by a Mac Mini when they replace the tube TV with a flat panel one a few years back.

I tried to track it down and it was either taken home by somebody or thrown in a dumpster, nobody really knows, it was written off long ago and so had no "value" and didn't need to be accounted for.  Who knows maybe it's in a closet someplace but it's not my department.

[VingtTrois]

hummmm here: http://asunews.asu.edu/20090806_conexiones

August 05, 2009

"One student, who worked in an inner city school, told Cohn she could gather a group of students and bring them to the university for a workshop with 16 donated Amiga computers."

“The hook was the Amiga (now out of business), which at the time was capable of visual effects and creating music,” Cohn says. “We would give the kids some basic instruction in animation and other programs and let them go and see what they came up with.”

[jay]

i wonder how many are up in the atics, collecting dust. what a shame for the old amiga:confused:

[TjLaZer]

I live in the USA.  I sold my 1950-B monitor on eBay to a Canadian user that runs the bowling ally there.   He told me that they needed one to replace another 1950-B that stopped working.  Why would he (or I) fib about such things?  -- I don't have images, but you can make a phone call to that bowling ally to inquire for yourself whether Amiga computers are still used for their scoring system.  But when you ask them for images as proof, they may hang up on you.

Why would he be in the hunt for another 1950 monitor to replace the old one?  Any VGA monitor will work on the 3000!

[TjLaZer]

I have seen an Amiga 1000 in Bill Gates office, it is sitting on one of his office shelves

I have seen an Amiga 3000 filled with cement being used as a boat anchor.

smerf

Man I gotta pull the BS card out on these!!  No way!

[quarkx]

Hi


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

He retired a year ago form Microsoft, so chances are, if he didn't take it home... it's gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HA4lSUhlbw

[obscurepanic]

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.

I live near Hamilton. This is very delightful to hear, despite I hate bowling.

[klx300r]

in my home!!! mostly for having fun and writing music...also used Lightwave to create my company logo..which gave me a really nice feeling inside :-)

[A1260]

its used to host a.org's bloody ugly site design!

[theformula]

Last year I saw an amiga still in use at ravensborne university, london. They used it to display the days filming timetable in the different film studios. My mate still go's to uni there I will ask him to take a photo.

[orb85750]

Why would he be in the hunt for another 1950 monitor to replace the old one?  Any VGA monitor will work on the 3000!

Way back when they had the system set up, it was modified in some way and the VGA port no longer could be used -- at least that's what he said (but he didn't know the details).  They were using the RGB port with an adapter, ironically on an Amiga 3000.  The person that bought it from me knew little about Amiga and was not there when the systems were originally set up.  Why a 1950?  Probably because they were looking for a duplicate of what they had working previously.

[Munchkin]

I know they're still used in video booths in some porn shops... :p