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- From: 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Answer to trivia question (early Amiga)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.232439.12299@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 04:24:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.175211@helix.nih.gov>
- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- > Back when everyone had 8-bit computers and all the
- > flame wars were between Atari 800/1200/130 folks
- > and Commode Door 64 owners, a 16-bit 68000 machine
- > was being developed called the Amiga 'Lorraine'
- > (or was it Larraine?). This was before the Apple
- > Lisa, the MacPredecessor. (More trivia.)
- >
- > For the grand prize, a week in non-virtual reality,
- > what were the code names for the Atari 400 and 800
- > during their development?
- Good question....I think I'd know but I was only about 8 years old at that
- time....:-) Shoot, I was only about 10 or 12 when I got my first 800 with
- _*48K*_Ram installed!!!!!!!! Wow, was I a bad mo-fo then! Speaking of thing
- that never happened like the Lisa, what ever happened to Atari's
- super-fantastic sound called the Amy?
-
- -Matt
-