I almost bought an Amiga, but then I was exposed to Quark Word Juggler for Apple II series. It was far and away the best word processor of the early '80s. That made Apple a must have for me.
Paul via phone > On Mar 24, 2015, at 4:43 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2015-03-24 5:39 , Ralf R Radermacher wrote: >>> Am 24.03.15 um 12:25 schrieb Paul Stenquist: >>> I took my first digital stills with a video camera, a black box that I >>> think was called Seeing Eye and an Apple IIc. >> >> Yep. Video frame digitisers. All the rage in those days. Had one hooked up >> to a b/w video camera and used R, G, and B filters to take colour pics. > > i chose Amiga for the affordability, the multi-tasking OS and the fact it did > four channels of 8-bit digital audio (crude now, but amazing for the time); i > did have a friend whom i inspired to buy an Amiga to do video and animation > and we had a jolly time playing with that; i still run into Video Toaster > enthusiasts who don't know it originated with Amiga > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

