Odd Places

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Thanks to its graphic and multi-task capabilities, the Amiga found its way in verious places and is still used/remembered fondly by its users. Here are some odd places where the Amiga could/can be found...

 

Stranger Thongs, Season 4, in 2022

Guru Meditation at Google in 2022

 In 2022, Netflix released the fourth season of Stranger Things. In Episode 5, entitled "The Nina Project", Will, Jonathan, Mike, and Argyle visit Dustin's girlfriend, Suzie, who uses an Amiga 1000 to connect to a server and find its location. The hardware looks real enough. The OS is mostly correct but includes strange programs and window. The display is green tinted. The Code displayed includes HTML, C#, and PNG files...

 

Forms.gle, in 2022

Guru Meditation at Google in 2022

In 2022, I was trying to access some Google Forms and something on the server went wrong, with a message that includes: "Guru Meditation"... Some people at Google must have been young, once!

 

COVID Attacks, in 2020

Belgium's official government anti-COVID guidelines website proposes a game that features an A500!

 

La Belle et le Boeuf Restaurant, in 2017

The burger place La Belle et le Boeuf in the Faubourg Ste Catherine, near Concordia University, hosts a C64 Monitor... I wonder if it still works?!

 

The Rapture of the Nerds, in 2017

The book The Rapture of the Nerds references, of course!, the famous Guru Meditation of the Amiga!!!

 

Grand Rapids Public Schools, in 2015

It turned out in the new that an Amiga 2000 has been running for 30 years in Grand Rapids and controls the heat and air conditioning at 19 Grand Rapids Public Schools through radio-frequency... They claim that it would cost .5 and 2 million dollars to replace it

 

Nintendo DSOrganize, in 2014

 I found somewhere in the Internet this photo of a Guru meditation in the Nintendo DSOrganize software! Can't recall where I found it and it could be a fake but who knows...

 

OpenSubtitles.org, in 2012

Guru Meditation at OpenSubtitles.org in 2012

In 2012, I was looking for some subtitles on OpenSubtitles.org and, for some unknown reason, the Web application or the server crashed with a message that includes: "Guru Meditation"... Someone running this Web site must have some nostalgia!

 

Grand Hotel Haeundae, Busan, Korea, in 2004

Amiga used in Grand Hotel Haeunde, Busan, Korea in 2004

 In 2004, I had the chance to attend the 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2004) in Busan, Korea. The conference took place at the Grand Hotel Haeundea (해운대그랜드호텔, 부산, 대한민국) and I stayed there for convenience... and what a surprise, when browsing the TV channels, to find the hotel advertisement with an Amiga pointer!

 

Cable Systems, United States, in the 1990s

The article about "the life and death of the Prevue channel, which showed you what to watch", describes how the Amiga powered the preview channels of many cable systems.

 

Hangar AE, Cape Canaveral, FL, United States, in the 1990s

For more than a dozen years, Amiga computers have been hard at work at Cape Canaveral's Hangar AE supporting the launches of every American spacecraft including the space shuttle.

 

CAMAC, BGO, and L3 at CERN, in the 1990s

 An Amiga 1000 was used to handle a detector consisting of an electromagnetic calorimeter containing bismuth germanate (BGO) crystalsin, part of the L3 experiment carried out at CERN in the 1990s, through a CAMAC bus/interface. CERN even mentioned that in some minutes that a spare Amiga was available (where is it now???) in case of failure... Cool stuff . There is even a M.Sc. thesis about the Amiga driver (in French).

 

U.S.A. Central Intelligence Agency, in the 1980s

 Apparently, the CIA bought Amiga-based computer systems to analyse photos... Incredible, isn't it?

 

 

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