Amiga Speech by Ron Nicholson (Amiga Ireland 2023) @AmigaCorp

Amiga Ron Nicholson was part of the team who designed the Amiga computer in the 1980s. He was also an early Mac engineer. His signature is molded into the cases of both the original Macintosh and the Amiga 1000.

In this Amiga Ireland speech, Ron covers the early days of Amiga as well as some other Silicon Valley stories. He talks about design choices and compromises, leapfrogging the competition, and some non-Amiga topics like working with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at Apple. In the Q&A session he also mentions the contributions of Jay Miner's dog (Mitchy), the high hiring standard ("no bozos"), Amiga and memory protection, affinities between blitter and FPGA chips, the demoscene, and Atari.

Recorded "live" (no tripod, no external microphone) on January 14, 2023 in Athlone, Ireland.

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Amiga Speech by Ron Nicholson (Amiga Ireland 2023)

Amiga 2023-01-15 | Ron Nicholson was part of the team who designed the Amiga computer in the 1980s. He was also an early Mac engineer. His signature is molded into the cases of both the original Macintosh and the Amiga 1000.

In this Amiga Ireland speech, Ron covers the early days of Amiga as well as some other Silicon Valley stories. He talks about design choices and compromises, leapfrogging the competition, and some non-Amiga topics like working with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at Apple. In the Q&A session he also mentions the contributions of Jay Miner's dog (Mitchy), the high hiring standard ("no bozos"), Amiga and memory protection, affinities between blitter and FPGA chips, the demoscene, and Atari.

Recorded "live" (no tripod, no external microphone) on January 14, 2023 in Athlone, Ireland.