But meanwhile the Amiga had more of those features than Mac 7.1 at that time. No protected memory, but full round robin preemptive multitasking since 1985 with color high res screens. Even with a 68000 at 7MHz with a few Megs of RAM it was a power user system.
And terrible marketing.
It is true that marketing and market savvy are king. Otherwise Microsoft would be in the dust bin of history and it would be Amiga and Mac that were vying for market share.
I've got you beat. I still have a Casio scientific calculator I bought when I was in high school in the late 70's. Says Radio Shack on the sticker but underneath it says Casio molded right into the plastic.
You get a lot more than just free Linux software with it.
There is Sun Star Office, Photogenics, and more. And Click 'N Run is very easy to use, but that isn't all you are paying for. Just the two commercial packages I mentioned would cost well over $99 combined.
And for rank newbies to Linux, like me, this is a much more effective way of getting into Linux. I'm on Lindows right now. Yeah, sure, you despise noobies. Up yours. You were a noobie once and will be again.
Oh, and I -can't- open most MS Word files on my Windows computer without buying MS Office first! Windows WordPad only opens the simplest of MS Word DOCS, and screws up tables and formatting.
Go ahead- try and stick a ferrite suppressor to metal. Try even to stick a real magnet to a ferrite suppressor. Try looking it up on the web or even (gasp!) in the library.
But that might violate the precepts of the know-it-all. Actual research and testing.
I started running Windows because I had to for the camera drivers. I was running Amigas only, but no software was available for it for the Amiga. Shapeshifter (Mac emulator for the Amiga) was too unstable when shifting back and forth, otherwise the camera driver was faster in Shapeshifter than on a real Mac or in a then-current Windows box.
Later I kept using Windows in order to run Adobe Pagemaker, as I could not provide the proper file formats to printshops from the Amiga.
I continue to use my Amiga (now under WinUAE ironically) for ImageFX. The Windows computer gets used for CorelDraw suite, Pagemaker, and MS Office (still at 97).
I just bought Lindows so I can move away from Windows as much as possible. I suspect I'll still have to use at least one Windows box for the printer drivers.
I was interviewed several years ago for Amiga Format magazine. The mag is gone now, but before they dissappeared I got permission to reprint the article. Scans of the pages are in the "About Us" section.
<P>I was commissioned by a friend to build a Jacob's Ladder that could be taken to parties and would not look out of place in a '50's B movie mad scientist's laboratory.
<P>So here is a fuzzy picture of me with it on the Mad Scientist list on Yahoogroups. I have the list set so you don't have to join to see it.
<P>The body is dark laquered wood, lots of coats. Plexiglass covers the front and back. The knobs and bulbs are pretty old to enhance the antique look of it. Real ceramic insulators hold the rods, and the rods are made of thick flat copper strips supported by brass rods which themselves are held by the ceramic insulators.
<P>Powered by a 7.5KV neon sign transformer. The big red light stays on, the bank of amber lights are NE2 bulbs wired with RC networks so they all blink separately.
<p>At the moment it is in the KISS radio haunted house in Seattle, WA next to a van der graaff and an electric chair.
Alignment? Chaotic Good? Why am I hearing more and more people described in gaming nerd terms?
Whatever happened to describing people in computer terms? Short on RAM, experiencing a buffer overflow, 8.4 Gigs installed but only 540 megs addressable by current OS, his hard drive is compressed with Stacker but he's got MSDOS 6.22 installed... y'know, stuff real people say.
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Can it be any simpler? "Business License". Check your story.
But meanwhile the Amiga had more of those features than Mac 7.1 at that time. No protected memory, but full round robin preemptive multitasking since 1985 with color high res screens. Even with a 68000 at 7MHz with a few Megs of RAM it was a power user system.
And terrible marketing.
It is true that marketing and market savvy are king. Otherwise Microsoft would be in the dust bin of history and it would be Amiga and Mac that were vying for market share.
I've got you beat. I still have a Casio scientific calculator I bought when I was in high school in the late 70's. Says Radio Shack on the sticker but underneath it says Casio molded right into the plastic.
Sure, it's gone now, but it'll be back....
Not quite as old, my trusty Amiga 3000. Yes, I use it for actual work. http://www.polyphoto.com
You get a lot more than just free Linux software with it.
There is Sun Star Office, Photogenics, and more. And Click 'N Run is very easy to use, but that isn't all you are paying for. Just the two commercial packages I mentioned would cost well over $99 combined.
And for rank newbies to Linux, like me, this is a much more effective way of getting into Linux. I'm on Lindows right now. Yeah, sure, you despise noobies. Up yours. You were a noobie once and will be again.
Oh, and I -can't- open most MS Word files on my Windows computer without buying MS Office first! Windows WordPad only opens the simplest of MS Word DOCS, and screws up tables and formatting.
No, RFI chokes are -not- magnets.
Go ahead- try and stick a ferrite suppressor to metal. Try even to stick a real magnet to a ferrite suppressor. Try looking it up on the web or even (gasp!) in the library.
But that might violate the precepts of the know-it-all. Actual research and testing.
I started running Windows because I had to for the camera drivers. I was running Amigas only, but no software was available for it for the Amiga. Shapeshifter (Mac emulator for the Amiga) was too unstable when shifting back and forth, otherwise the camera driver was faster in Shapeshifter than on a real Mac or in a then-current Windows box.
Later I kept using Windows in order to run Adobe Pagemaker, as I could not provide the proper file formats to printshops from the Amiga.
I continue to use my Amiga (now under WinUAE ironically) for ImageFX. The Windows computer gets used for CorelDraw suite, Pagemaker, and MS Office (still at 97).
I just bought Lindows so I can move away from Windows as much as possible. I suspect I'll still have to use at least one Windows box for the printer drivers.
Doh! HTML formatting? Nah, did it on purpose so I'd look like a 733t d00d.
grumble.... I feel more like a f733t d00f.
Thanks for reposting the URL.
Yep, I'm one of the many who still use their Amigas. And I use mine for my digital photography business.
And I'm fixing some Amigas for a gentleman who has a wedding and event video business, he still uses Amigas with Toaster cards.
At the risk of being /.'d, Polymorph Digital Photography.
I was interviewed several years ago for Amiga Format magazine. The mag is gone now, but before they dissappeared I got permission to reprint the article. Scans of the pages are in the "About Us" section.
<P>I was commissioned by a friend to build a Jacob's Ladder that could be taken to parties and would not look out of place in a '50's B movie mad scientist's laboratory.
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<P>So here is a fuzzy picture of me with it on the Mad Scientist list on Yahoogroups. I have the list set so you don't have to join to see it.
<P><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mad_scientist
<P>The body is dark laquered wood, lots of coats. Plexiglass covers the front and back. The knobs and bulbs are pretty old to enhance the antique look of it. Real ceramic insulators hold the rods, and the rods are made of thick flat copper strips supported by brass rods which themselves are held by the ceramic insulators.
<P>Powered by a 7.5KV neon sign transformer. The big red light stays on, the bank of amber lights are NE2 bulbs wired with RC networks so they all blink separately.
<p>At the moment it is in the KISS radio haunted house in Seattle, WA next to a van der graaff and an electric chair.
Amiga rights are owned by... Amiga!
Some ex-Gateway employees bought rights to use the Amiga name and patents and such.
http://www.amiga.com
Anyone tried installing UAE on the Zaurus?
Someone -is- trying to make new Amigas.
http://www.amiga.com
Same Kermit Woodall of Novadesign. He's been part of the company responsible for ImageFX.
Alignment? Chaotic Good? Why am I hearing more and more people described in gaming nerd terms?
Whatever happened to describing people in computer terms? Short on RAM, experiencing a buffer overflow, 8.4 Gigs installed but only 540 megs addressable by current OS, his hard drive is compressed with Stacker but he's got MSDOS 6.22 installed... y'know, stuff real people say.
;')