History Of The Commodore Amiga - Part 3

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Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWv2FfqY-QE

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Education

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• Commodore
• Amiga
• C64
• 64
• 500
• 2000

[andy9841]

Wonder what these guys are all doing now

[footinmouthindustrys]

so thats what that sound was in the bouncing ball

[Dinky12]

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

[KaitainCPS]

@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.

[vdgjolly]

@fredrik999z agreed :)

[fredrik999z]

@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.

[vdgjolly]

@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

[MrJumper68]

@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.

[iviarko]

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

[vapourmile]

@andy9841 Welfare.

[fredrik999z]

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.

[falkerhard]

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.