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Libraries

LibraryThing awesomeness and memories of my Amiga 3000

By Ira Nathenson on December 31, 2006

Way back in the late 80′s, I had a couple of Commodore Amiga personal computers. The Amiga was perhaps the first (or one of the first) consumer PCs to incorporate a mouse, graphical interface, fast color graphics, and real pre-emptive multitasking. As cool as Mac users thought their system was, I recall that the Amiga [...]

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