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The inventor of the Amiga 1000 was Jay Miner, who created the Atari 800 many years before. He wanted to make the most powerful computer ever, then he joined a small Californian company called Amiga. He used the principle of the three coprocessors (again) to help the main processor.
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The Amiga 500 turned this picture around, though. It was a low cost model. The whole computer was fit into an only slightly enlarged keyboard case. Extendability was pretty much sacrifised for the sake of saving costs and keeping the price low. Especially in Europe, the Amiga became a huge success. No matter if people wanted a computer for work (A2000, A3000, A4000) or for gaming (A500, A600, A1200), (only) Amiga made it possible (pun intended).
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The Boing Ball has been synonymous with Amiga since their public release in 1985. It has been a popular theme in computer demo effects since the 1950s, when a bouncing ball demo was released for Whirlwind computers. Commodore released a bouncing ball demo at the 1978 Consumer Electronics Show, to illustrate the capabilities of the VIC chip. A similar theme was used to demonstrate the capabilities of the Amiga computer at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show. It was a real-time animation showing a red-and-white balloon bouncing forth and back off the edges of the screen, as a deep 'boing!' sound played on each impact. Since then, the Boing Ball became one of the most well-known symbols for Amiga and compatible computers.
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The A1000 was the first Amiga model, which was introduced in 1985 by Commodore. For years, Amigas were considered the best example of affordable graphics computers, providing sophisticated features available only on much higher-priced systems.
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The Editorial of the technical magazine "Computer Video" dedicates itself completely this month to the Amiga. It is dealt briefly with the history of the Amiga etc. The possible successor (AmigaOne) were welcomed and hoped to be just as innovative in the video area as the old Amiga was.
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AdRAM 510 Plus expands the chip RAM in your Amiga 500 Plus computer to two megabytes. The AdRAM 510 Plus installs in minutes and without tools using the expansion bay under the computer. The AdRAM 510 comes populated with 4x256K DRAMs and includes diagnostic tools.
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