Anniversary: Commodore Unveiled The First Amiga Computer 40 Years Ago Today

What are your memories of the Amiga?

Today marks a very special occasion for Commodore Amiga fans — the 40th anniversary of Commodore’s initial unveiling of the first-ever Amiga computer (otherwise known as the Commodore 1000).

It was on Tuesday, July 23rd 1985 that Commodore first unveiled the eagerly-anticipated computer at the Lincoln Center in New York, in what was described in the press at the time as a lavish “coming out” party, with its plan being to position the $1295 Motorola 68000-based computer as a potential rival to Apple’s Macintosh computer, which had released one year earlier.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

What are your memories of the Amiga?

Today marks a very special occasion for Commodore Amiga fans — the 40th anniversary of Commodore’s initial unveiling of the first-ever Amiga computer (otherwise known as the Commodore 1000).

It was on Tuesday, July 23rd 1985 that Commodore first unveiled the eagerly-anticipated computer at the Lincoln Center in New York, in what was described in the press at the time as a lavish “coming out” party, with its plan being to position the $1295 Motorola 68000-based computer as a potential rival to Apple’s Macintosh computer, which had released one year earlier.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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