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Building a next-gen homecomputers in the spirit of Commodore, Atari
"Jay Dresser" wrote in message ... Joona I Palaste writes: orange scribbled the following on comp.sys.amiga.hardwa On 7 Jun 2003 22:02:16 -0700, (Zothen Runecaster) wrote: I always had the idea of a console-based next-gen AMIGA (because the original AMIGA started as a console,too ). Isn't A1000 first Amiga? That was not a console. It was the first Amiga ever published commercially. Amiga (not Commodore) did make some prototypes before that, and they were more like consoles than computers. I have a pre-production Amiga and, except for the sturdiness of the case and the shielding, it looks just like an A1000. I'm not aware of anything earlier than that that looked like a console. What are you referring to? -- Jay Dresser / org.dresserfamily@usenet I'm assuming that they are refering to the original designs...AKA Lorraine. Originally, the Lorraine was designed as a console, but once the designs were starting to be laid out...they decided to not just have the ports for keyboard/etc(they were putting them in for future expansion)...they decided to run with it as a computer. By the time the CES came around, they had decided on the Amiga name, and had a semi-working prototype(8 breadboards wired together for each of the custom chips). I've heard all the stories about how they had to keep repairing the thing on the fly. Everyone who saw it at the CES(in '82 I believe) was highly impressed with it. It would be almost 2 years before the Atari vs Commodore battle over the Amiga's technology, and the A1000 hits the market. |
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