Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: webb@udel.edu (David Webb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: (none) Message-ID: <1973@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 18 Oct 89 14:09:57 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 50 ------- Forwarded Message Received: from louie.udel.edu by louie.udel.edu id aa05681; 18 Oct 89 13:26 GMT Received: by cbmvax.UUCP (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 12/21/87)) id AA01516; Wed, 18 Oct 89 09:19:00 EDT Date: Wed, 18 Oct 89 09:19:00 EDT From: Michael Sinz - CATS Message-Id: <8910181319.AA01516@cbmvax.UUCP> To: mmdf@udel.edu Subject: Re: Amiga Origins & Trivia Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga In-Reply-To: <1921@nigel.udel.EDU> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Cc: In article <1921@nigel.udel.EDU> you write: >From: Eduardo Horvath <33014-18@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> >> Since evryone has been speculating on the origins of the name Amiga, >>I decided to ask the horse's mouth, so I called Jay Miner. He said that >>Dave Morse was responsible for the name. The original root was Amic as in >>Amicable, which then underwent cosmetic changes to become Amiga. Jay wasn't >>very clear about this stuff and promised he would ask Dave and put together >>a posting if he had time. > >While you're at the great fountain of Amiga Trivia, how about a few more >answers that have surely been bothering many of us old-timers: > >1) What happened to Daphne and Portia? > >2) What is the significance of the "paw print" inside the Amiga 1000 >case along with all the signatures? > >(Additional question for extra credit: Where else did the paw-print >show up?) > > --- Cal > > // Cal Jones - Internet: or > \X/ BBS: 904-243-6219 1200-9600HST 340Meg, all Amiga > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > NW Florida's first Amiga BBS running on NW Florida's FIRST AMIGA! Warning - There are many of us Original Developers here on the net. That is, either people that worked for Amiga or worked with Amiga. -- Mike ------- End of Forwarded Message