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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 6 Mar 91 07:05:01 GMT
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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,

I agree.  I have a transcription of a lecture given by RJ Mical (one of the
founders of the Amiga) that was circulated several times on the net.  he
claims that the Amiga was ALWAYS intended to be a killer computer, however
they had to convince the original investors it was going to be a game machine
in order to get cash out of them.  
>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.                     |
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