Agnus on the way back to its roots

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Owner:: frustus Message this owner
Released:: Monday, November 8, 2004
Origin:: Austria
Recently Spotted:: Unknown Location

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Current Goal

This travelbug would like to visit some important places in the history of the Amiga computer:

-	Braunschweig, Germany, the european home of the Amiga
-	West Chester, Pennsylvania, the place the Amiga was brought to fame and killed
	by permanent C= management mistakes
-	Santa Clara California, the birthplace of the Amiga Computer
-	any other important place in the Amiga history

About This Item

TB: Agnus

The 8375 (aka Agnus) was one of the custom chips that made it possible for the Amiga computer to be the first real multimedia computer system long before this term was even invented...
Beside Agnus, Denise and Paula helped the Amiga to display images in 4096 colours and to play stereo sound.
Thanks to its real multitaksing operating system this and much more could be done at the same time.
This TB should remind you that a couple of highly motivated people can produce something very special with quite limited resources, but a stupid management can ruin everything in no time....
There are several quite good web pages telling the history of the Amiga computer.
A good one for example is here: Amiga history
An other option is the Deathbed vigil video filmed by Dave Hayne on his last working day at Commodore.

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5/20/2005	Yeti-Hunter retrieved it from Dresden Flughafen	Sachsen, Germany	Visit Log
Hello, I´m not sure what the next stop will be. With nice greetings from Dresden Yeti-Hunter
5/20/2005	Yeti-Hunter placed it in Dresden Flughafen	Sachsen, Germany - 289.39 miles	Visit Log

5/8/2005	Yeti-Hunter retrieved it from Top Of Dolomite	Steiermark, Austria	Visit Log
Hello, I´ll see what I can do for the Agnus TB With nice greetings Yeti-Hunter
5/1/2005	eMTy1 placed it in Top Of Dolomite	Steiermark, Austria - 2.98 miles	Visit Log
Hmmm i think there is no place near which makes sence to your goal. I only can tell you a nice story i made with an amiga computer. After school i started my work in a big Grazer engine research company. There i had a boss which wasn't as well with computer and so he told me to help him because he can't read from the floppy. So we went to his office to look what's wrong. - I immediately saw what happens. He gave the floppy reverse into the shaft. I think he used a hammer 💀 eTtt [This entry was edited by ettt on Sunday, May 01, 2005 at 3:19:30 AM.]
4/23/2005	eMTy1 retrieved it from Gaisberg	Steiermark, Austria	Visit Log
Hmmm ? Will see if i can do somthing for you
1/1/2005	Dr.Torque placed it in Gaisberg	Steiermark, Austria - 4.61 miles	Visit Log

12/31/2004	Dr.Torque retrieved it from Memory I oder Plattenwandertag	Steiermark, Austria	Visit Log
Difficult mission for such a small processor.
12/29/2004	edorian placed it in Memory I oder Plattenwandertag	Steiermark, Austria - 14.56 miles	Visit Log

12/11/2004	edorian retrieved it from Walls of decay	Steiermark, Austria	Visit Log
Today I found this TB in the Walls of decay cache. I won't be able to bring it to some Amiga related site, but I will leave it somewhere closer to Graz where the chances of it getting further away is bigger. I never had an Amiga, but when I had my Commodore 64 I wanted to have an Amiga, but I could not afford one then. Later I directly switched to a PC.
12/8/2004	frustus placed it in Walls of decay	Steiermark, Austria	Visit Log

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