“Today is the Amiga’s 20th anniversary. Commodore officially introduced the Amiga 1000 with much fanfare at the Lincoln Center in New York on July 23, 1985. It was the most advanced computer of its day. The Amiga 1000 was originally conceived a few years earlier by a small California company called Amiga, Inc. and was financed by a group of Florida doctors looking to invest in a killer game machine.” …..

Yes, Amiga Happy Birthday.
Although I have never used or even seen one, happy 20th birthday.
I do however have had an experience with an Amiga user.
Back in 1992 I was living with my aunt and uncle going to college up in Delaware. They had a new washer installed incorrectly which led to a whole lot of water damage. After the cleanup, new carpet needed to be installed. Talking to one of the carpet installers, computers came in conversation. I was majoring in computers and he also had an interest in computers. I had a 286-16, he had an Amiga. I never heard of them, but I got a lesson about the Amiga. He went into total Fanboy mode, telling me how much better Amigas were than the IBM compatibles and Amigas were the future, yada, yada, yada.
I did not argue, just listened to his sermon.
I tend not to get into the typical fanboy rants, this vs. that.
It has been 13 years since that education.
What I want to know, if the carpet installer is reading this on his Amiga, is your Amiga still faster than my computer? Is Amiga still the future?
No?

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