{"id":672,"date":"2010-06-30T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2010-06-30T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T18:01:00","slug":"inside-the-amiga-1000-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/672\/inside-the-amiga-1000-25th-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Amiga 1000 (25th Anniversary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/200083\/inside_the_amiga_1000.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/inside_amiga_1000_small.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Amiga 1000 on PC World\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Commodore first shipped the legendary Amiga 1000 in July of 1985 &#8212; twenty-five years ago.  In honor of the Amiga&#8217;s birthday, I did what comes natural to Benjs of all sorts: I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/200083\/inside_the_amiga_1000.html\" target=\"_blank\">took one apart<\/a>.  And I did it for PC World, making this the tenth entry in my &#8220;workbench series&#8221; of tech autopsies.<\/p>\n<p>Giving the Amiga 1000 its place in the limelight is only fair because I took apart its arch-nemesis, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/641\" target=\"_blank\">Atari 1040STf<\/a>, back in March (the ST series also turned 25 this year).<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it.  When you&#8217;re done, I encourage you &#8212; no, urge you &#8212; to share your fondest Amiga memories in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Here are my previous workbench teardowns, if you&#8217;re interested: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/191766\/inside_the_atari_1040stf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atari 1040STf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/181421\/inside_the_atari_800.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atari 800<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/152528\/inside_the_commodore_64.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commodore 64<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/162588\/gadget_autopsy_the_nintendo_game_boy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Game Boy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/148391\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Famicom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/143520-2\/anatomy_of_an_icon_inside_the_apple_iic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple IIc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/147939\/inside_the_worlds_greatest_keyboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Model M Keyboard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/146496\/inside_a_classic_the_trs80_model_100.html\" target=\"_blank\">TRS-80 Model 100<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/09\/20\/inside-the-macintosh-portable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Macintosh Portable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commodore first shipped the legendary Amiga 1000 in July of 1985 &#8212; twenty-five years ago. In honor of the Amiga&#8217;s birthday, I did what comes natural to Benjs of all sorts: I took one apart. And I did it for PC World, making this the tenth entry in my &#8220;workbench series&#8221; of tech autopsies. Giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}