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 9/14/2005 qmhastarwatcher retrieved it from Fish A Little-Cache A Little Oregon   Visit Log

I wish I could go to Santa Clara CA with this TB but I just came back from there 3 weeks ago and will not be able to go again for awhile. I'll be taking TB to an event cache to be held in this area in 2 weeks.

Dropped Off 9/14/2005 Sure--Loc placed it in Fish A Little-Cache A Little Oregon - 20.81 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/22/2005 Sure--Loc retrieved it from RAG M.O.P. RELOADED Oregon   Visit Log

Will get closer to I-5 and south to Calif.
Dropped Off 7/20/2005 WeightMan placed it in RAG M.O.P. RELOADED Oregon - 404.23 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/19/2005 WeightMan retrieved it from Old Mill Yard California   Visit Log

I will be moving Angus north.
Dropped Off 7/4/2005 Darmok and Jalad placed it in Old Mill Yard California - 140.53 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/11/2005 Darmok and Jalad retrieved it from Lakeside Dining (and etc.) California   Visit Log

Back in the day, the Buddies had a Commodore 64 and Vic 20, and almost invested in an Amiga... I don't recall exactly what happened to intervene, but the rest is history.

Sorry it took so long to long this chip out of the Event and we will move it along soon.
Dropped Off 6/10/2005 Marky placed it in Lakeside Dining (and etc.) California - 111.93 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/10/2005 Marky retrieved it from Little Shop of Horrors: the Sequel! California   Visit Log

This is bug #1118 we have seen and moved. Thanks!
Dropped Off 6/4/2005 Yeti-Hunter placed it in Little Shop of Horrors: the Sequel! California - 5,763.18 miles  Visit Log
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