Dave Farquhar
Experienced Member
Just in case you missed it (I sure did), yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the Amiga 1000 launch. Unbelievable. Unbelievable that it's been that long, that is, and that it took so long for the rest of the world to catch up.
I upgraded from a Commodore 128 to an Amiga 2000 in 1991, when Commodore was running one of its power-up promotions. Basically they'd give you a big discount on an Amiga if you showed the dealer your manual from another Commodore computer. I got that big box home, set it up, and had no idea what to do with it, though I learned. And it definitely changed the way I thought about computers. Amigas had that effect on people. Good multitasking years before Windows 3.1 (which had multitasking, but it still wasn't very good), good sound years before Ad Lib (let alone Soundblaster), Autoconfig years before Plug 'n Play, multimedia years before Microsoft and Apple.... Looking back, I still see why.
I upgraded from a Commodore 128 to an Amiga 2000 in 1991, when Commodore was running one of its power-up promotions. Basically they'd give you a big discount on an Amiga if you showed the dealer your manual from another Commodore computer. I got that big box home, set it up, and had no idea what to do with it, though I learned. And it definitely changed the way I thought about computers. Amigas had that effect on people. Good multitasking years before Windows 3.1 (which had multitasking, but it still wasn't very good), good sound years before Ad Lib (let alone Soundblaster), Autoconfig years before Plug 'n Play, multimedia years before Microsoft and Apple.... Looking back, I still see why.