You got that right Ted - they were AWESOME Machines. In the Early days of personal computers - you had the IBM PC (and maybe a couple clones) - the Apple II - and the Amiga 1000. Meanwhile - the A1000 had the PC & Apple BEAT - as it had Better Multi-media (IBM only had a buzzing speaker and no Real sound) - and both the original IBM PC and the AppleII were BOTH Monochrome. Where as the Amiga had Colors - like 16 or 256 - but, the color range could be upgraded via Special programming called HAM (Hold and Modify) - allowing for more colors - I think it was 1024! Which - back then - was Amazing!
Ah - the days of the Amiga... -K- -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 4:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hacker's Guide still lives On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > p.s. If you really had an A1000 it's probably worth quite a bit. > Nah, $199.00 and up on eBay, Caveat Emptor! I had an A1000, gf an A500 and later I had an A2000. It helped (or didn't!) that I worked (part-time) at a retail Commodore-specialty store. Hardly ever took home a paycheck, just more toys to play with. Paula, Agnes and Denise were the names of the 3 coprocessors on the board that off-loaded the Motorola 68000 CPU of pesky duties like video, audio, serial, etc. Great machines! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/80838f1ca795b14ea1af48659f35166f1c1...@drexch02.corp.globetax.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.
