On Fri May 20 2005 5:03 pm, Rick Stevens wrote: > This thread caused me to wax nostalgic and wander out into the storeroom > at home to look at my old computer stash. And Lo! Before my eyes were > my beloved Amigas: A500, A600, A1000, A2000B, A3000 and an A3000T. I > also gazed wistfully at my Altair 8800, IMSAI 8080, Processor Tech > SOL-20 and Poly-88. Digging deeper found my old MicroVAX-1000e, my > LSI-11/73 and several old VT-100s and VT-220s. > I'll go you one better, Rick. I still have an Amiga 500 in service in our TV studio - it runs Broadcast Title off a floppy, and we use it generate special-item knock-offs of shows with special titling needs that aren't worth taking the time to take into an NLE or whatever - I exagerate slightly, in that I think it was last used several months ago, but, it was in weekly use up till then, and it's still in the production chain in one of our tertiary suites. I have often wondered where things might have gone if Commodore hadn't been run into the ground by horrible front office decisions - if that platform had gone through the development cycles that the Intel platform has been through, with its amazing architecture that was so far ahead of its time.... -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
