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[subbes]

"Amigas were used in various NASA laboratories to keep track of multiple low orbiting satellites, and were still used up to 2003/2004"

[elmuerte]

NASA is known for using ancient technology. This is for various reasons, the most important being: it takes a seriously long time to find flaws of technology under less than standard environments. And obviously, they test the shit out of it to find as much flaws as possible. Nothing sucks more than figuring out that 100+100 = 199 when remperature gets close to absolute zero.

[jeremywc]

Did anyone in the United States EVER own an Amiga growing up? It feels like took me forever to even understand what one was growing up, as I had assumed it was a game console for a long time.

I had a friend growing up whose dad worked IT and preferred Amigas. At one point they had 3 Amigas in their house. One of my favorite memories is playing Star Control 2 all night on one while his brother ran some script he had hacked together that would dial into various BBS's and download pirated games.

[ThunderPeel2001]

"Amigas were used in various NASA laboratories to keep track of multiple low orbiting satellites, and were still used up to 2003/2004"

In other words, Amigas rule

[Ben X]

I think I read once that the Babylon 5 effects were all done on Amigas.

[ThunderPeel2001]

Indeed, with a VideoToaster. They didn't look great, though :-/