I recall buying my daughter an Amiga 500+ back in the late 80's. A primitive machine that only the older members will recall. But now, maybe I should buy me a new Amiga, from the top of the page at 20% off. Think I'll go for the blonde one in the middle. But no. I don't want to fuck plastic really. I know it brings in money for the site, but it does my head in...... maybe I'll buy one, dress it as a police woman, and sit it in the back of the car with a phoney spliff in the mouth.
i sort of always wanted one. i had a vic 20, and before that, an osi c1p. both of which i hardware hacked to expand. amiga is the way development 'should' have gone. but then ibum and its bizdroid market stepped in, which left the closed propritory apple as its sole serious contender. apple then killed something called dragon, for correcting its most serious flaw that it refused to, then moved on to the lisa and the mac. while ibum opened its isa bus to any and all compliant vendors and the rest became history. in the middle market, well beyond personal consumption, other architectures remained viable.
Yeah - the art programme on the Amiga was amazing at the time. You could suddenly do these crazy animated mandalas. I often wish I had more knowledge of computer science. But I'm just a user really with only limited understanding of the technical side of it all. From many of your posts themnax I think you are probably more of a technician than I am. I guess I'm like the other guy in Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - I love to ride the machine, but I can't fix it when it fucks up.
