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
Recently Spotted:
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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

Retrieve It from a Cache 2/10/2008 diverrk retrieved it from Let There Be Light New Jersey   Visit Log

Found it, but GPS was a little wacky so it took longer than it should ! Got the TB all the way from Austria COOL !!!
Discovered It 12/9/2007 sweetpea03 discovered it   Visit Log

Nice accomidations at the hotel!
Dropped Off 12/9/2007 GranAndPap placed it in Let There Be Light New Jersey - 1.35 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/9/2007 GranAndPap retrieved it from Travel Bug Train Stop New Jersey   Visit Log

Stopped by with some of my family's new cachers as they had a TB to dropp off. Picked this one to move it along the way.
Discovered It 10/24/2007 smrich discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered while swapping some other TB's in a cache today.
Dropped Off 8/27/2007 FSU*Noles placed it in Travel Bug Train Stop New Jersey - 982.17 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/22/2007 FSU*Noles retrieved it from Hawkeye Riverwalk Cache Minnesota   Visit Log

Found this cool TB by the river, at my 4,200th find today! I'm heading to the East Coast at the end of August, and will place the TB near or in Pennsylvania at that time - if that's too long to wait, lmk and I'll drop it in a local cache in Minnesota before then instead. Thanks!
Dropped Off 6/13/2007 nrtiger placed it in Hawkeye Riverwalk Cache Minnesota - 28.52 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/13/2007 nrtiger retrieved it from Baldwin's Wordsmithy Wisconsin   Visit Log

Moving along.
Dropped Off 5/17/2007 bobcatw98 placed it in Baldwin's Wordsmithy Wisconsin - 31.4 miles  Visit Log
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