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Offline kinshiTopic starter

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Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« on: November 23, 2009, 04:47:47 PM »
I am an old hat at Amiga who has decided to take a peek back at the system I built my career on.

My name is Chris Edgin, I used to work for ICD, Inc. As tech support/QA (inc international support), wrote all the manuals for the AdRAM, FFV, AdSpeed, AdIDE, and Trifecta, as well as working the company booth at the World of Commodore shows. I was there until they shut their doors in '93.

I was then in tech support/QA at ASDG, Inc. working on AdPro, MorphPlus, and TRexx and was there up to and after they sold to Avid Technology ( I left in 96 in advance of layoffs within Avid.

hehe at one point I had EVERY Amiga ever made (even special imported an A600 from Norway, and a 500+ from the UK)..and I still have my CDTV and A2500. I got curious again to the state of the Amiga world after stumbling across the original NewTek Demo Reel on YouTube and developed a serious case of nostalgia.

Who knows may have spoken to some of you on the phone on support at one time or another or responded to your support letters :)

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Oh and a shout out goes to N.A.R.C (the Niles Amiga Resource Committee).I still remeber the great time we had at your picnic, and I still have the nice plaque you all gave me, and your newsletter 'Picnic of the Gods'. That was an awesome time!
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Re: Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2009, 05:51:15 PM »
Greetings and welcome Chris! I vaguely remember N.A.R.C.! Sold Amiga 500's through Montgomery Ward on Touhy Ave. back in the day. Dropped in on them a couple of times, but stuck around the Libertyville & Arlington Heights user groups more as I grew up and lived around there.

Thanks for taking the time to write! And yeah, it's awesome - the nostalgic power of those DemoReels. I still play them for friends or just to show off the machines from time to time. Still like the first Demo the best though as I have a memory from '87 seeing it for the first time. Making an Amiga purchase was a no brainer shortly after that. Umm.... make that immediately  ;-)

BTW: if you happen to have any AdSpeeds, AdIDE or any other goodies laying about you wouldn't mind selling or trading - please feel free to e-mail!  :-)
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Re: Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2009, 06:32:19 PM »
Scans of any manuals you might have lying around would also be greatly appreciated, too.
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Re: Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2009, 07:29:09 PM »
Fraid I sold off my ICD hardware a long time ago, BUT I do still have all my 'proofs' of the manuals I wrote, specifically for the AdSpeed/IDE, Flicker Free Video 2, and Trifecta. I could scan those and PDF them, just need a place to upload them to.
 
hmm now that I think about I may have an AdSpeed stuck in my CDTV :) I forget now (I had an AdSpeed/IDE with a 20 MB HDD in my CDTV for the longest time, gotta love the Novia line of laptop HDDs we used to sell hehe)
 
I still reget parting with my A3000, it was pretty well tricked out, complete with Progressive 040, CBM Zorro III SCSI-2 card, and a Picasso II vid card. If I had had any idea there would have ever been an AmigaOS 3.9, I would have kept the rig. Now all I got is my Franken-CDTV and a clunky old  2500.
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Re: Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2009, 07:34:46 PM »
Hi and welcome!

Nice to see another local Amigan!  I am right in your area.  Any amiga advice/correspondence would be appreciated.

I just renewed my interest in all things Amiga last year.  Managed to pick up quite a bit of hardware but am just learning what to do with it all since for years all I had was a 500!
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Re: Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2009, 09:20:38 PM »
Welcome to Amiga.org -- You`ll never leave!!
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Re: Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2009, 10:46:49 PM »
Quote from: Tension;530981
Welcome to Amiga.org -- You`ll never leave!!

 
You are probably right....its hard to describe the emotional response I got when watching the NewTek demo reel again , and then I saw the Eric Scwartz Amiga Tribute animation on YouTube.
 
Well, it woke up the Amigan in me. You all know the feeling I am sure, its hard to watch that stuff w/o getting a little choked up. Now I am gonna have to at minimum drag out the CDTV and load up 'Defender of the Crown'  and start thinking how to bring my A2500 up to times.
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Re: Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2009, 02:00:58 AM »
Quote from: kinshi;530953
Fraid I sold off my ICD hardware a long time ago, BUT I do still have all my 'proofs' of the manuals I wrote, specifically for the AdSpeed/IDE, Flicker Free Video 2, and Trifecta. I could scan those and PDF them, just need a place to upload them to.
 
hmm now that I think about I may have an AdSpeed stuck in my CDTV :) I forget now (I had an AdSpeed/IDE with a 20 MB HDD in my CDTV for the longest time, gotta love the Novia line of laptop HDDs we used to sell hehe)
 
I still reget parting with my A3000, it was pretty well tricked out, complete with Progressive 040, CBM Zorro III SCSI-2 card, and a Picasso II vid card. If I had had any idea there would have ever been an AmigaOS 3.9, I would have kept the rig. Now all I got is my Franken-CDTV and a clunky old  2500.


I'm in Tacoma and I have a A500 with the AdIDE with Novia kit in it!  It has a 120MB HD and a Baseboard 4MB.  It rocks!
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Re: Hello from sunny(lol) Seattle
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2009, 08:31:53 AM »
Hey Chris - I'm here in Seattle too, and host an Amiga website on a trusty old accelerated A2000/060-50 - would be VERY interested in hosting those PDF scans?  I can help you scan them too for that matter!  You can come by and check out the 'server' (and all the other Amiga and unrelated computer gear cluttering my house, including an AmigaOne running OS 4.1 (which I need to get back to using far more)?

anyway, drop me a line and let's talk at your convenience.  I took this week off from work, so am pretty much around anytime barring thu-fri for family stuff?

kevin
amiga university
http://www.amigau.com
amigau (nospam) AT oz dot net
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