As mentioned in part 2, the Amiga was PowerPC based, just like Apple Computers and this lead to the purchase of my first Powerbook, the G3 Pismo (Carrie Bradshaw’s Notebook from Sex and the City, anyone?). It’s still such a beautiful computer and really showed that design matters – especially for a product you spend […]
The 90s started good, as we bought our first Amiga 1200 – yes, this time the all-in one version and not the Amiga 4000 (at first). This was primarily because we had our Amiga 2000 fully equipped through it’s Zorro II Bus Board: SCSI Controller with 40MB Harddrive, 8 Megabytes of RAM, two Floppy Drives […]
I was very fortunate to experience the history of home computing almost from the very beginning – something I’m very thankful for and realize it’s magnitude until today. Thanks, Dad! In the 1970s and before a computer just wasn’t something for everyone – too big, too expensive and way too complicated. This has been disrupted […]
