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History Of The Commodore Amiga - Part 3

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  • Wonder what these guys are all doing now

  • so thats what that sound was in the bouncing ball

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  • The people were true pioneers to the computer industry. It's a weird feeling knowing how primitive all this was 30 years ago and how limited these guys were

  • @iviarko

    Combination of factors. #1 terrible marketing by Commodore, #2 market inertia - always hard to displace a machine that lots of people, esp. businesses, have and have lots of software for. #3, the Amiga was a new kind of machine and a lot of people didn't understand what it was for. Everybody expected computers to be either for games or for business, and Amiga seemed to occupy a third space, something we're all used to now but which didn't really exist at the time.

  • @fredrik999z agreed :)

  • @vdgjolly Ok, I think "childlike enthusiasm" is a better word to describe the Amiga crew. They where not just doing a job, they where chasing a dream. When you are young you are dreaming and playing around mostly of the time.

  • @fredrik999z I would not call it childish and unserious ... I would call it "having fun by what you are doing". oh wait ... yes are right because this is how children behave and what I am fully missing at work

  • @iviarko Well amiga quickly became a game computer, where IBM from the start was a business computer, latere in the late 80s PC slowly also became a game pc. I think back then alot of people only had money to one computere, an they would buy one wich all in the home could use.

  • Why didn't Amiga rule the computer world if it was better and cheaper than IBM and DOS?

  • @andy9841 Welfare.

  • I've always been amazed over how childish and unserious the Amiga crew gives the impression of but in reality they where genius and did some really amazing stuff back then.

  • It is an amazing story. Pandora handheld console is another amazing story.

    This wasn't just putting together motherboards and slotting chips like modern PC building. This was designing the actual chips.

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