I had (still have, somewhere) a souped up A4000. 50Mhz 68060, 3D graphics card, lots of ram[1], SCSI hard drives & DVD burner.
Had Linux running on it at one point, which was a great learning exercise as there was no distributions. My first Amiga was an A500. Amazing platform, and the 68000 series CPUs were great to program. [1] 'lots' being relative...maybe 50Mb?! On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > I had an Amiga 500 and it was great for graphics. Ok not as good as the > 2000. For everything else it was Atari for me. Still Jack though. > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Ted Roche > > > After my military service, I moonlighted at The Memory Location in > Wellesley, MA, an all-Commodore shop, and usually took my paycheck home in > toys. I was president of the Foxboro Area Commodore User Group, newsletter > editor, BBS SysOp (with an SFD-1001 1 Mb floppy and an IEEE interface!). > Eventually we were printing our newsletter in Postscript on an NEC > SilentWriter 890. I beta-tested GEOS software, wrote my first public domain > software (an Epson quad-density printer driver), got to hang out with the > legendary Jim Butterfield one weekend in Boston during a Commodore > convention. I had a C=64 with the memory expander with extra memory for a > full megabyte, the 1581 3.5" drive. Thanks to the store, I played with all > the latest toys. After Jack Trameil left Commodore, Commodore went on to > purchase the Amiga computers. I had a 500 and a souped-up 2000. Great > machines. > > If you're interested in Commodore history, Brian Bagnall wrote "On the > Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" which you can likely find > in your local library. > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CADwx0+Lvt9=zmjitr0_60bsg6kkdyijs4udnkm6invm5ycr...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
