Last day of a Commodore Amiga Factory

The Commodore Plant in West Chester, PA
The last day of this Amiga Factory. April 27, 1994. Dave Haynie shows you around of what once was...

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• Commodore
• Amiga
• A500
• A1000
• A2000
• CBM
• Retro
• Haynie

[josephgut]

The Amiga was the greatest. I had the opportunity many years ago to speak with Steve Jobs about the Amiga - even he was enamored with it. It was a truly special machine with great people such as Jay Miner. It was a different bunch of folks back then - people with heart and soul and a user community like none other. Apple had a bit of that for a while, but now it's just another computer company. I really miss the Amiga and most of all the wonderful people that went along with it.

[MrFlibble2011]

@pixelsmack begone, Satan.

[johnredpath]

Commodore raised the bar so many times in the golden age of home computing- Their machines were exeptionaly well made and always had the best games. rip

[TomiTapio]

@detrix42 Let us listen to C64 and Amiga musics on Youtube for ever.

[ivanskido]

Amiga forever :)

[detrix42]

Its hard to believe that the Amiga is no longer. I will have Workbench 3.1 disks. Probably don't work anymore, but, I just can't throw them away. This brings a tear to my eye. The Amiga was the best computer of that time, no doubt about it in my opinion.  Long live my memory of a great computer.

[anibalsc]

The best computer in history, even better than Apple.

[MegaDembol]

smutno:(((((((((( zlote czasy ,

[misekmoj]

Competitor many times went with prices bellow normal earnings and bancrupted in short time taking with them 3 or mor companies. This is unstable market and I amnot economist and see this. This must be regulated from State level, but capitalism allows all sleazy tricks. This vacuum is oportunity for new volfs but mostly that are the rich ones with proper info and connections and money. The rest can sell fake dreams, pick up lines, fake job opportunities, penis enlargment pills, date services, etc

[misekmoj]

... for homeusers, because they get clients by that for compainies which pay A LOT. And when someone is used to Windows OS and other software, he will have a hard time to go to Linux. I am a Windows "addict" and prefer Windows over Linux because I can do something with it. MS studied the market well and users psychics. Commodore was naive in this sense, they probably thought the product speaks for itself. But competition is shit and many times sleazy, hungry and careless...

[misekmoj]

Bill Gates was never a genius programer we all know that. He just know how to sell and he had connections with it. He made a good business and easy money. Abaut Windows it is normaly that you are being brainwashed at companies like MS. In crisis times like this you are ready to sell your soul to make a living. And all that commercials abaut western managers in nice suits and practically no education only intuition and ego matters we have it that way. MS doesn't really bother for antipiracy at...

[RussianWarClub]

@AirSimming

I don't see where you get your 'facts' from. The market opt for Windows because while may not be the most efficient OS, it is very well supported, it is a sure fire operating system and can do anything as expected a computer can do because it is the 'standard'.

Linux is very efficient however it's not as well supported as Windows and you don't have that peace of mind knowing that you are bound to have something work.