Travel Bug Dog Tag Agnus on the way back to its roots

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Owner:
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Released:
Monday, November 8, 2004
Origin:
Austria
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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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Tracking History (12895.3mi) View Map

Visited 4/13/2013 JJ-TK took it to Lost Pirate Treasure Pennsylvania - 2.86 miles  Visit Log
Visited 4/13/2013 JJ-TK took it to Not 4 Driving Pennsylvania - 2.19 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/13/2013 JJ-TK retrieved it from Walking with the Living God Pennsylvania   Visit Log

I owned a few Commodore systems growing up. It's awesome to see a chip from an Amiga system. I will move it along to another cache. Not sure how close I will get it to something C= related though.
Dropped Off 3/23/2013 gbook57 placed it in Walking with the Living God Pennsylvania - 142.71 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 2/3/2013 gbook57 grabbed it   Visit Log

Grabbed it to place in another cache
Discovered It 8/8/2011 Apollo II discovered it   Visit Log

😌 -> www -> 😎 - thx!
Discovered It 3/1/2011 briren discovered it   Visit Log

Found this in French Creek State park not too far from West Chester Pa. Too bad my cousin left today for Southern California. I will place this in another local cache near West Chester.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 5/22/2010 banjojon grabbed it   Visit Log

Found this in a Letterbox at Jones Park Vestal NY.. Will send it on it's way.
Dropped Off 3/25/2010 The Raindogs placed it in GeoChicks Gone Wild !! New York - 18.94 miles  Visit Log
Write note 3/25/2010 The Raindogs posted a note for it   Visit Log

Had this bug for a while, finally dropped it in GeoChicks Gone Wild! cache while showing my class of 8th graders what geocaching is. We will be watching this one as it tries to make it's way to it's goals.
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