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Subject: Re:  VIDEO magazine article...
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Date: 16 Oct 90 04:21:00 GMT
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Re: "designed for games"

Sad (?) but true; the original Amiga was to have been a videogame machine
that would knock Atari (remember them?) out of the business. That was in
'82, about the time that Atari was knocking ITSELF out of the business
(Remember game carts being used as landfill? Will history repeat itself?)
and the Amiga Corporation was making the Power Stick (I still have mine--
GREAT little joystick) and the JoyBoard (the TRUE source of the GURU
MEDITATION message). The directors took one look at the plummeting market
for dedicated videogame machines at the time and Jay Miner (bless 'im)
told them, "Don't worry. We've got a real computer here!" Then he and =RJ=
and many others went to work. The rest is perhaps better known.

The interesting thing is that we may actually see a cartridge-based Amiga
videogame machine in a year or so. What goes around...
                                                --rw
                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet