A blast from the past!
It was Christmas of 1990 – my junior year of high school. This was a great Christmas for me. Being an avid computer user – my trusty Commodore 64 was used every day back then. If I wasn’t trying to save Skara Brae from Mangar the Dark, I was trying to make money supporting my NASA space station. Well, that Christmas I received what is now my all-time favorite computer. The Commodore Amiga 500 – a true revolutionary leap in home computing at it times. While IBM PC’s where green screen DOS terminals along with Apple Mac’s grey scale graphic user interface, the Amiga boasted true 16-bit, 4096 color palette along with a whole whopping 1 megabyte of ram (who could ever use more?) and a 1.44 MB 3.5in floppy drive. The Amiga 500 was actually a second generation Amiga – the low end price conscience model compared to the much more expensive and expandable Amiga 2000. Commodore had something special and only with their classic inability to market and manage what they had – basically be