Odd Places / 2021-03-09 23:35:16

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...

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

Grand Hotel Haeundae, Busan, Korea, in 2004

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