First Internet message and ...

[John Foust]

At 09:05 PM 11/26/2019, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>Video Toaster, while a niche product, really showed the advantages of Amiga.  Up until a few years ago, when the Cable TV system crashed, it would display a "Guru Meditation Number"!
>"But there HAS to be a Macintosh version!"
>"OK, OK."  It's a bigger box, and if you look inside there's an Amiga motherboard. (or so I'm told)

At some COMDEX, NewTek won a "Best in Show" crystal trophy for the PS/2
version of the Toaster, which was a GUI I wrote in Visual BASIC
that sent ARexx commands over the serial port to a real (Amiga) Toaster 
hidden under the table, but who's counting.

- John