On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:02:57PM +0200, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 19:51, Tomasz Rola via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > From time to time I behave like a normal human and, for example, zip > > channels on my cable tv. Few years ago, while stopping at their "see > > what we have on offer to you, prospective viewer" kind of channel, it > > cracked open and I have seen the Workbench screen. Version 1.3 or 2.0, > > if I am correct. Could be 2.0, so most probably Amiga 1200.
Looks like I mixed few things up. The Workbench was the ugly one, so I would keep 2.0, but the Amiga for it would have to be A600 then. Not that it really matters much. [...] > The shop had full-length windows at street level. This is not much use > for a supermarket: the backs of shelves are not very interesting to > look at, it's hard to get in there to replace marketing posters etc., > leaving it open wastes potential shelf space... > > So they filled it with big plasma flatscreens (quite new tech at the > time). They could display animated advertising, special offers etc. I would say that was cool. [...] > I was very surprised to see what looked like a _new_ Amiga deployment > at that time -- end of the 1990s. > > But I guess it was good at its job, and probably required very little > maintenance... I guess so, too. Connecting Amiga to plasma was probably the least hassle of all alternatives. PC would need something special (either card or converter?), and a hard drive, and a big box, and separate keyboard and reboot every four(ty) days - Amiga 500 could be just "stuffed under the rug". And after loading a "demo" from a floppy, there was no moving parts involved. It could just sit there and display flying images for years. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **