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

Retrieve It from a Cache 8/27/2006 nmartin retrieved it from Brandis Bear Hunt Oregon   Visit Log

I will move to the bay area next week
Dropped Off 8/3/2006 cronez placed it in Brandis Bear Hunt Oregon - 2.26 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/10/2006 cronez retrieved it from T(h)ree Oregon   Visit Log

Forgot to log this one before. Found it in my pack today and left it in Brandis Bear Hunt.
Dropped Off 6/3/2006 pilgrimwanderer placed it in T(h)ree Oregon - 1.03 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/12/2005 pilgrimwanderer retrieved it from Old World Cache Oregon   Visit Log

Pretty clever for all you computer geeks out there like my son who helped me choose this TB.
Dropped Off 10/28/2005 GlenMart placed it in Old World Cache Oregon - 63.96 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/25/2005 GlenMart retrieved it from Black Beauty Oregon   Visit Log

Taking to the Willamette Valley.
Dropped Off 10/25/2005 GlenMart placed it in Black Beauty Oregon - 3.92 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 10/25/2005 GlenMart grabbed it   Visit Log

We picked this TB up at a new cache along the Oregon Coast called Black Beauty. To keep mileage correct, we have grabbed it, dropped it into the cache we picked it up from, and are picking it up from there.
Write note 10/3/2005 qmhastarwatcher posted a note for it   Visit Log

I misplaced this bug somewhere on my desk or my backpack but I am looking for him!
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