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Amiga at nasa
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[ Show youtube player ] Why the amiga? or was only a case? I cannot understand english talk. (As I am not good in written english aha) Last edited by Amigo79; 01 August 2018 at 03:08. |
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At NASA, they needed to develop custom hardware to communicate telemetry rocket data with a computer. They asked IBM for technical information on their PCs and also Commodore for their Amiga line. IBM never answered back, and Commodore sent them schematics and huge pile of other relevant technical information about the Amiga. So the choice was quite easy. The project ended with a fully working working set of expansion cards (custom Zorro cards), that worked as intended untill they were retired due to some general computer renovation budget thing they had going on. |
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The second video there, pretty much agree with the NASA guy on everything, great computer for any kind of research/lab.
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So not only was the Amiga chosen by NASA for data processing work, Commodore were extremely enthusiastic about selling the machines to them by giving them technical specifications up the wazoo. The management at Commodore always wanted their hardware to be taken seriously and not just gaming or to be seen as "toys" by their customers, so they must've all been as pleased as punch when they made the sale. Good for them
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Posts #2 and #3 above moved here from this thread: Truth about amiga in video editing
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Remember, this is Commodore, with the management that famously turned down all kinds of deals that was about taking their hardware seriously. Perhaps most known, the offer from Sun for the Amiga UNIX systems. |
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