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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: SW Cheese Country
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The Amiga had color (thousands, not four), a context button on the mouse instead of a single button, WYSIWYG documents, proper preemptive multitasking, and you didn't have to swap disks a few dozen times to get anything done. Was good at ray tracing, though far from live, live video and you could get a toaster for it when the 2000 came out. The weirdest thing I ever used was a "scanner" that was a set of filters you put in front of a video camera connected to the computer. Full color scans but it took three passes, one for each color filter.
They were used in films like Jurassic Park and TV shows like SeaQuest. Too bad it was such a poorly run company.
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The X15 was the only aircraft I flew where I was glad the engine quit. - Milt Thompson.
"Don't get so caught up in your right to dissent that you forget your obligation to contribute." Mrs. James to her son Chappie.
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