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Offline amiman99Topic starter

Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« on: May 16, 2013, 04:50:36 AM »
I was browsing Ebay for some Apple Macs looking for some cheap CPUs to salvage from and came upon the PowerMac 6100. And then it hit me, that looks like Amiga 1000.
Did Apple copied the design? To me it looks like they did!
Here is a composite picture I made to make the point.

and today they're suing Samsung for copying their iPhone, hypocrites!
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2013, 04:54:36 AM »
It was too awesome NOT to copy ? :D
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2013, 05:05:45 AM »
That Apple case didn't appear until 1993, 8 years after the A1000. I suspect the A1000 was long forgotten in the halls of Apple by then. Probably just a coincidence.

Besides, there's no keyboard garage :)
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2013, 05:09:43 AM »
Maybe apple was doing hipster retro in '93 ?!
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Offline amiman99Topic starter

Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2013, 05:13:02 AM »
Quote from: Matt_H;735159
That Apple case didn't appear until 1993, 8 years after the A1000. I suspect the A1000 was long forgotten in the halls of Apple by then. Probably just a coincidence.

Besides, there's no keyboard garage :)
Maybe case designer was a secret Amiga fan, who knows...
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2013, 05:18:59 AM »
Be pretty sweet to mod an amiga in there...
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2013, 08:14:35 AM »
Quote from: royalcrown;735168
Be pretty sweet to mod an amiga in there...


Been done - http://lincsamiga.org.uk/wordpress/index.php/members-amigas/macmigas-ultra600-project/
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2013, 01:05:05 PM »
but then again the C=128 also looked like the a1000. So maybe its just a coincidence.

http://scacom.bplaced.net/Collection/128d/128den.php
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2013, 01:27:42 PM »
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That Apple case didn't appear until 1993, 8 years after the A1000. I suspect the A1000 was long forgotten in the halls of Apple by then. Probably just a coincidence. QUOTE]

Maybe, maybe not. Sony based the design of the PS2 on that of the Atari Falcon 030, years after the fact.

Saying that, the A1000 is a fairly obvious design (other than the garage of course!).
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2013, 03:40:24 PM »
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Quote from: Matt_H;735159
Maybe, maybe not. Sony based the design of the PS2 on that of the Atari Falcon 030, years after the fact.

It's the unreleased Atari Falcon 030 microbox and supposedly Sony bought the design, no idea of when though & how they knew about it.
 
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but then again the C=128 also looked like the a1000. So maybe its just a coincidence.

I believe the C128D was designed after commodore bought Amiga & the A1000 case design along with it. If you are going to make a computer that you can put a monitor on top of and it's going to have one board and a disk drive then there aren't many designs that actually make sense.
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Offline amiman99Topic starter

Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2013, 04:21:55 PM »
I did not know that about the Atari Microbox and PS2, nice little fact.

I can see Commodore using their own design in their own products.
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2013, 04:45:40 PM »
Bleh, to bad C= was no longer around to sue 'em!  ;)
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2013, 09:10:50 PM »
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Been done - http://lincsamiga.org.uk/wordpress/index.php/members-amigas/macmigas-ultra600-project/


Whaat...no sidecar ?! :biglaugh:
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2013, 09:49:16 PM »
PS2 case based on the Microbox's case.
Common guys, be more specific.
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Re: Apple copied Amiga 1000?
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2013, 09:49:55 PM »
Quote from: yssing;735186
but then again the C=128 also looked like the a1000. So maybe its just a coincidence.

http://scacom.bplaced.net/Collection/128d/128den.php


Same coincidence all smart phones look similar. Somtimes form just follows function - be it Bauhaus, a computer case or a phone. But some certain company tries to ruin all others who do similar things they do...
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