The Amiga 1000 shipped with a floppy disk drive that could store 880KB per 3.5-inch disk–an impressive capacity for 1985. At the time, most IBM PC floppy drives stored 360KB on 5.25-inch disks ...

Amiga 1000 computers did not start to appear in quantity on retail shelves until mid-November 1985. This was too late to make a significant impact on the crucial holiday buying season.

The Amiga 1000, released in 1985, was quite the opposite. It had a sleek quick-load OS that could boot almost instantly. It rocked 256 kilobytes of RAM to the C64's mere 64.

The Commodore Amiga 1000 is a case in point, it was the machine everybody wanted but its A500 home computer sibling made the Amiga a success story. Peripherals for the 500 are plentiful then ...

It's been 30 years since Commodore announced the Amiga 1000, a computer truly ahead of its time. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

In the mid 1980s, there was a rash of 16-bit computers entering the market. One of them stood head and shoulders above the rest: Commodore’s Amiga 1000. It had everything that could reasonabl… ...

Amiga Computer Awakened From Sleep With Makeover. By Agam Shah. Mar 22, 2012 4:00 pm PDT. ... The first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, went on sale in 1985, according to the Computer History Museum.

Forget the Apple Macintosh, Ridley Scott, and “1984.” As computer launches go, we’ll take the Commodore Amiga, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry. In January 1984—as the entire Western World is ...

Previously unknown Andy Warhol artwork, made on a 1985 Commodore Amiga computer, was recently extracted from obsolete floppy disks. The Andy Warhol Museum said in a statement released Thursday ...

Amiga creator Jay Miner, when asked about the machine at an Amiga user group meeting, recommended that Amiga 1000 owners hang on to their existing computer instead of upgrading. Jay's feelings ...

The Amiga 1000, a computer released by Commodore in the mid-1980s, became legendary for its power compared to other machines available at the time.

Nearly three decades after its initial introduction, the Amiga personal computer has been given a makeover with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies. The first Amiga, the ...