ocr: in 1982 a brilliant group of people began chipping away at a new idea for a personal computer that would allow users to paint and animate in 4096 colors, create high quality music from actual digitized sounds, that would output directly to videotape. This ideal machine was, and is, the AMIGA. Upon it's debut in 1984, the AMIGA was readily accepted and utilized for a1l of these things by an often fanatical following who saww it's potentiai,