11 Apr
2012
11 Apr
'12
11:56 a.m.
Here's a dump of pictures from the early days of the Amiga... the
first public developer's conference, a CES, a show in San Francisco,
the first AmiExpo in New York...
https://plus.google.com/photos/117735836648635794619/albums/573016527192731…
- John
11 Apr
11 Apr
1:04 p.m.
On 11 Apr 2012, at 8:56 AM, John Foust wrote:
Here's a dump of pictures from the early days of the Amiga... the
first public developer's conference, a CES, a show in San Francisco,
the first AmiExpo in New York...
Oh man, were we young then.
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1:30 p.m.
On 11 Apr 2012, at 18:04, Christian Kennedy wrote:
On 11 Apr 2012, at 8:56 AM, John Foust wrote:
Yeah, I was a bout 7 years old :).
Any idea what this;
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zUQg2Dqo61g/T4WkL4rTEjI/AAAAAAAAASg/h5ye…
actually is? It's sitting in an Amiga 2000 chassis (or a generic full
PC AT desktop box) and has all manner of weird things plugged in!
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Here's a dump of pictures from the early days of the Amiga... the
first public developer's conference, a CES, a show in San Francisco,
the first AmiExpo in New York...
Oh man, were we young then. 
1:38 p.m.
On 4/11/2012 11:30 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
Any idea what this;
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zUQg2Dqo61g/T4WkL4rTEjI/AAAAAAAAASg/h5ye…
actually is? It's sitting in an Amiga 2000 chassis (or a generic full
PC AT desktop box) and has all manner of weird things plugged in!
I thought the whole thing was flop!
I guess now (2012) is the time to be PC compatible, with
Intel inside.
Ben.
2:18 p.m.
On 4/11/2012 11:30 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
Any idea what this;
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zUQg2Dqo61g/T4WkL4rTEjI/AAAAAAAAASg/h5ye…
actually is? It's sitting in an Amiga 2000 chassis (or a generic full
PC AT desktop box) and has all manner of weird things plugged in!
Looks to me like pretty standard guts from a Macintosh II.
ok
bear.
12 Apr
12 Apr
2:58 a.m.
On 11 Apr 2012, at 19:18, r.stricklin wrote:
On 4/11/2012 11:30 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
Congratulations, you win today's special prize!
http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/profiles/articles/macii/motherboard.jpg
It was given away by the block of 4 large square chips and the hole in the corner at the
front.
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Any idea what this;
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zUQg2Dqo61g/T4WkL4rTEjI/AAAAAAAAASg/h5ye…
actually is? It's sitting in an Amiga 2000 chassis (or a generic full
PC AT desktop box) and has all manner of weird things plugged in!
Looks to me like pretty standard guts from a Macintosh II. 
4:05 a.m.
I miss "my" Mac II. I should have "forgotten" to return it to ASU.
Damn my honesty! (;
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 Apr 2012, at 19:18, r.stricklin wrote:
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On 4/11/2012 11:30 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
Congratulations, you win today's special prize!
http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/profiles/articles/macii/motherboard.jpg
It was given away by the block of 4 large square chips and the hole in the corner at the
front.
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Any idea what this;
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zUQg2Dqo61g/T4WkL4rTEjI/AAAAAAAAASg/h5ye…
actually is? It's sitting in an Amiga 2000 chassis (or a generic full
PC AT desktop box) and has all manner of weird things plugged in!
Looks to me like pretty standard guts from a Macintosh II.
8:28 a.m.
At 01:58 AM 4/12/2012, Mark Benson wrote:
On 11 Apr 2012, at 19:18, r.stricklin wrote:
OK, I'm always eager to have memory or deception corrected. I uploaded
eight more pics from that series. They're organized as the last eleven
at the end.
<https://plus.google.com/photos/117735836648635794619/albums/5730165271927312577?authkey=CJe3-Ibk68ua_wE>https://plus.google.com/photos/117735836648635794619/albums/5730165271927312577?authkey=CJe3-Ibk68ua_wE
The box is indeed labelled "Amiga 3000". The FCC disclaimer and mouse stickers
are clearly made with a Mac. At least some of the deception must've been clear
to me at the time, as I took an extra picture of the Apple power supply. I owned
a Mac II at the time, so it all would've been familiar to me. I can't remember
when these pictures were taken.
I'll ask Dave Haynie.
- John
Looks to me like pretty standard guts from a
Macintosh II.
Congratulations, you win today's special prize!
http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/profiles/articles/macii/motherboard.jpg
It was given away by the block of 4 large square chips and the hole in the corner at the
front.
11 Apr
11 Apr
1:44 p.m.
At 12:30 PM 4/11/2012, Mark Benson wrote:
Any idea what this;
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zUQg2Dqo61g/T4WkL4rTEjI/AAAAAAAAASg/h5ye…
actually is? It's sitting in an Amiga 2000 chassis (or a generic full
PC AT desktop box) and has all manner of weird things plugged in!
I think it's the Amiga 3000 prototype. I have other pictures of it.
One shows a paper sticker on the case that says "Amiga 3000."
I think the upright slot is the Lowell graphics card.
- John
1:57 p.m.
That's an interesting pic.
SIMMs instead of ZIPs, some sort of VLSI extra thing next to a more production looking
plcc, lots of programmable logic. 030/882 on the motherboard. And is that a TI
something graphics card?
All this Amiga talk is depressing.
On Apr 11, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
On 11 Apr 2012, at 18:04, Christian Kennedy wrote:
On 11 Apr 2012, at 8:56 AM, John Foust wrote:
Yeah, I was a bout 7 years old :).
Any idea what this;
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-zUQg2Dqo61g/T4WkL4rTEjI/AAAAAAAAASg/h5ye…
actually is? It's sitting in an Amiga 2000 chassis (or a generic full
PC AT desktop box) and has all manner of weird things plugged in!
--
Mark Benson
My Blog:
<http://markbenson.org/blog>
Follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/mdbenson
"Never send a human to do a machine's job..."
Here's a dump of pictures from the early days of the Amiga... the
first public developer's conference, a CES, a show in San Francisco,
the first AmiExpo in New York...
Oh man, were we young then.
1:44 p.m.
Oh and, for what it's worth, I am the secretary of one of the UK's few
surviving Amiga user groups, LAG:
http://lincsamiga.org.uk
On 11 Apr 2012, at 16:56, John Foust wrote:
Here's a dump of pictures from the early days of
the Amiga... the
first public developer's conference, a CES, a show in San Francisco,
the first AmiExpo in New York...
https://plus.google.com/photos/117735836648635794619/albums/573016527192731…
--
Mark Benson
My Blog:
<http://markbenson.org/blog>
Follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/mdbenson
"Never send a human to do a machine's job..."
1:56 p.m.
On 04/11/2012 10:56 AM, John Foust wrote:
Here's a dump of pictures from the early days of the Amiga... the
first public developer's conference, a CES, a show in San Francisco,
the first AmiExpo in New York...
https://plus.google.com/photos/117735836648635794619/albums/573016527192731…
I'm not sure if I can link to individual photos, but I do like 6th row
down, third from left - that appears to be a PCB balanced on some
cardboard, and a pointy finger, and someone else trying to inform the
pointy finger that it's about to make a very expensive mistake :-)
cheers
Jules
5 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, John Foust wrote:
The picture looks to me to be an Apple Macintosh II, with a
third-party PC keyboard. The mouse is standard Apple, and there's a
13" High-Resolution monitor sitting just behind it. The case has been
cut to pieces, obviously for a demo. I can see an auto-inject floppy,
mounted vertically, in the left-front of the case. Also, the power
supply looks very Mac IIish, to me.
I'm assuming that this is meant to be some kind of Mac/PC
compatibility solution?
- Alex
Here's a dump of pictures from the early days
of the Amiga... ?the
first public developer's conference, a CES,
a show in San Francisco,
That would presumably be the West Coast Compter Faire. ?Got a date?
6:14 p.m.
At 03:05 PM 4/11/2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, John Foust wrote:
Yes, late March 1987.
- John
Here's a dump of pictures from the early days
of the Amiga... the
first public developer's conference, a CES,
a show in San Francisco,
That would presumably be the West Coast Compter Faire. Got a date? 
8:41 p.m.
On Apr 11, 2012, at 5:14 PM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
At 03:05 PM 4/11/2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
cool. that's the one I went to. was at the Spectrum Holobyte booth showing off
Falcon.
kelly
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, John Foust wrote:
Yes, late March 1987.
- John Here's a dump of pictures from the early days
of the Amiga... the
first public developer's conference, a CES,
a show in San Francisco,
That would presumably be the West Coast Compter Faire. Got a date? 
12 Apr
12 Apr
5:32 p.m.
On 11 April 2012 16:56, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
Here's a dump of pictures from the early days of the Amiga... ?the
first public developer's conference, a CES, a show in San Francisco,
the first AmiExpo in New York...
https://plus.google.com/photos/117735836648635794619/albums/573016527192731…
Great album - thanks for that.
I think the only person in there who I had any contact with at the
time was Jez San, who sent me the first external email I ever received
from the Internet on CIX, IIRC.
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