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Description: Why an Amiga is better than XYZ.
 

20 years ago Commodore went bankrupt 
  They didn't *declare* bankruptcy until 1994 of course but it was the holiday shopping season of 1992 (which began exactly twenty years ago this month) that sunk the company so far into debt they never recovered. Essentially from that point on Commodore was dead. In a mid-1993 statement they said that they hoped... more »
By dsgrace  - Nov 20 2012 - 3 new of 3 messages    

gold in them computers 
  A headline from today's Wall Street Journal: "Apple Now Biggest-Ever U.S. Company " and an old quote: 'Jean-Louis Gassee, former head of development at Apple (1996 in Amazing Computing interview): "When the Amiga came out, everyone was scared as hell. No one could figure out how they packed so much power into its off-the-shelf parts. We [at... more »
By dsgrace  - Aug 20 2012 - 2 new of 2 messages    

amiga "success" story . . . 
  The Sunday, 15 July 2012 San Francisco Chronicle had a profile of a 34-year old named Jeremy Stoppelman who started a Web company eight years ago. Says that his introduction to the computer technology was when: "He got his own personal computer, an Amiga 2000, when he was in the 10th grade, and he was soon convinced that he'd be a video... more »
By dsgrace  - Jul 17 2012 - 12 new of 12 messages    

20 years too late 
  Another of those "somebody's about to bring out an Amiga" stories: [link] Funny that this one is posted on the twenty-year anniversary of Commodore going bankrupt; important distinction: C= declared bankruptcy in... more »
By dsgrace  - Jun 19 2012 - 2 new of 2 messages    

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By New Offers  - Jun 2 2012 - 1 new of 1 message    

Download Now 4 F.REE .. Watch TV Shows, Music Videos and more .. 
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By New Offers  - May 21 2012 - 2 new of 2 messages    

there'll alway be a Commodore 
  review of the about-to-be-released "Commodore" Amiga-mini: [link] apparently these people have followed the old C= dictum that if something is cheap enough somebody will buy it, with little concern for quality . . . like the old saying, "It's not that they were first and took it, it's that they were last and no one... more »
By dsgrace  - Mar 22 2012 - 1 new of 1 message    

20 years later . . . 
  20 years after the Internet was first demo'd in the US, Amiga gets a browser, . . . look out Apple! [link] and if you looked behind the scenes of that demo 20 years ago you would have seen a number of Amiga users both watching the demo and contributing... more »
By dsgrace  - Mar 7 2012 - 2 new of 2 messages    

ex-amiga programmer finds AMD bug 
  here's one of those old Amiga programmers still working in the computer field: [link]
By dsgrace  - Mar 6 2012 - 1 new of 1 message    

has it finally happened? 
  the amiga fallen into the oblivion??
By Jason Stevens  - Dec 14 2011 - 8 new of 8 messages    

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