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From: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <19514@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 04:50:34 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.013846.26519@gsm001.uucp> <1991Mar4.030134.7183@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <19467@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar05.010601.18832@sat.com>
Reply-To: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Mar05.010601.18832@sat.com> farren@sat.com (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>raible@cbmvax.commodore.com writes:
>>In fact Jay Miner (former Atari guru) and Co. designed the Amiga to be
>>the ultimate game machine. It wasn't until CBM came along that the
>>decision was made to make a personal computer out of it.
>
>Oy vey!  Perhaps Commodore should print a little pamphlet for its employees,
>with a little history in it...
>
>The Amiga was evolved into a personal computer some time before Commodore
>ever got their hands on it.  I have in my possession a complete set of Amiga
>documentation from 1983-1984, when Amiga, Inc. was simply that, and it shows
>an Amiga with a keyboard, 5-1/4" floppy drive, memory expansion slot (on
>the top of the case, so that expansion modules could be "stacked"), and
>several other attributes of a personal computer.  While it might have
>started out as a simple game machine, it was much more than that before
>the advent of CBM.
>-- 
>+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>| Michael J. Farren                                      farren@sat.com |
>|                        He's moody, but he's cute.                     |
>+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

Vat do you vant already, good chips or good history? Obviously there are
a few gaps in my education, and the metamorphosis started earlier than I
had related. All I learned about the early history of Amiga & Co. was
anecdotal, gleaned from conversations with BArt,Dale etal. As far as CBM
supplying history lessons, the situatin was quite the opposite with a
news blackout imposed on all CBM employees who were not directly
involved in the project. Copies of the Lorrine spec had serial numbers
on them and were tightly controlled. It was like working for the
military. Certainly not the good old days from my perspective.