Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 13:16 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > >>They still re-make and sell them in Europe. amiga.com .org and .net >>exist and can start you on your journey. What caused the downfall. >>They got bought by Commodore. The management of Commedore was the role >>model for Enron. (And yes the Amiga 1000 the first model was taken from >>a rejected design for the Atari 2600 ) > > > There's a large amiga fraction in the amateur music area. A lot of > young people learn the benefits of this aging machine. The other day > one of those techno-kids (he already published a lot of pieces and > makes a good living with that) told me that he does a lot of his daily > work on a somewhat 'tuned' amiga. > > BTW: We just had a large exhibition of games and related stuff in > Leipzig, Germany. All the halls buzzing and screaming with all those > sexy game devices (x-box, playstation). And a small par tof the > exhibition was showing "How it all began" with Sinclairs, Amigas, > Ataris, all the stuff. They had those old machines running games like > pacman, pong and frogger and the place was as crowded as the shiny new > gamezone! > > I remember myself putting just another 50-Pfennig coin into the machine > playing the first computer game with the tennisball. > > BTW2: My first time I ran a program on a computer was in 1969. It was a > IBM, filling the second story of a large warehouse and to run a small > 10-minute-program you had to punch holes into hundreds of cards first. > > That same machine is now on display at a german IBM museum. > > wobo
That is absolutely awesome! I love talking to people like yourself that were in the industry back then. One of my professors started in the industry in the '60s. If you could get him talking about it the stories he would tell us in Mainframe assembler class. That is some good stuff. Mark
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