Even NASA used Amiga's!

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For a 11min version and high quality, click here • AMIGA at NASA: The Sec...
For more than a dozen years, Amiga computers have been hard at work at Cape Canaveral's Hanger AE supporting the launches of every American spacecraft including the space shuttle.
Since after all, this IS rocket science, NASA must downlink a tremendous amount of data from each spacecraft; during ground tests, through the countdown and lift-off and out into space. There is no room for error in the acquisition and processing of this data. It must be accurately calculated and reliably sent from the hanger to distant space centers around the world participating in the mission. All in real time and without interruption. Since Hanger AE also supports some telemetry from the space shuttle, that importance is even greater since human lives are on the line.
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@akfreed6949 2 года назад

NASA used Amigas AND ATARI STs . There were some STs used to make computations on trajectory .

@alanhaynes4576 3 года назад

Awesome and just another testament to show that had silly Commodore actually learnt how powerful the Amiga was. They would probably still be around today building Super AAA Chipset Amigas for us to enjoy and perhaps Gates and Jobs would not be household names. Oh well one can dream and who knows with all the interest now perhaps that journey might kick off again.

@desiv1 12 лет назад

"They don't like the Amiga because it doesn't cost enough." Interesting quote... ;-) Great vid, thanx!!

@ballebanan 10 лет назад

Warms the heart. I was always annoyed when people that didn't own Amigas talked about it like it is only good for games. Show them this and tell'em to suck it.

@valenrn8657 3 года назад

These days, GpGPUs are being used for AI/DL/ML and data processing military applications.

@SM-sk1sm 2 года назад

CLASSIC AMIGA Still being used at NASA TO THIS DAY

@Amigatech 12 лет назад

I still have my Amiga 4000. It is one my most prized possessions. Only Amiga makes it possible!

@kemi242 11 лет назад

Commodore intended the Amiga line as a more serious business machine, rather than a gaming device. They even tried to get rid of the "toy store computer" image built with the C64, which was still their most successful product. They were used at NASA illustrates how reliable and powerful, yet cheap these systems were.

@HyRax_Aus 6 лет назад

It still amazes me, even today, that companies reject certain solutions on the simple basis that it's either "not Microsoft" or "it's not expensive enough" as though they were the only two measures of the right tools for a given task. In the case of the Amiga, it was perceived as only one thing - a "gaming" machine, but at least they acknowledged that what made it great as a gaming machine also made it great for number crunching, that and the fact that Commodore were very open with the technical specification too.

@valenrn8657 3 года назад

In modern times since Xbox 360 and GeForce 8800 GTX (CUDA), PC gaming GPUs have evolved into GpGPU i.e. excellent for mass data processing for games and non-games.

@solverh 12 лет назад

The Amigas at NASA: Years ago when I wrote my final Design-(tech)-History essay at collage I came across a webpage with this interview in textformat. This material was great. Could only print out a copy for reference compilation for the teacher and link reference it in the essay itself and cross fingers the link would not become a dud too soon. Terrific to finally be able see the interview. Bloody good job guys!

@docmnemonic Год назад

Was aware that NASA was using Amiga. This video was new to me. Superb. 🙂

@TheGuruMeditation 7 лет назад

Awesome video guys. This footage is priceless. It was amazing to see the Amigas in there and that gentleman was very intelligent and made some great point. Thanks for this! -- Bill

@alexanderwingeskog758 5 лет назад

Remember seeing some "sneaked out" photo of an Amiga 1000 or a 2000 (you had to look close) from insida NASA in a computer magazine here in Sweden (I guess it was around 1990 or something). I was amazed the article did not say much as I remember what it actually was used for. Even though I was an Amiga fan I thought maybe it's just for some personal use or something. But now I know that it was not, it was actually critical hardware/software for NASA! Pretty nice!

@05Rudey 12 лет назад

The Amiga 500 plus was the first computer to "WOW" me on just about every aspect, Graphics, sound, speed of loading, crisp Workbench OS. Before this, i was used to ZX-Spectrums, C-64's and Atari 2600's. So it felt like a big leap in tech for me. My only regreat is that i only really used the Amiga as a games machine and not a serious Computer to program, make music, word process or anything like that. For my college work i just used my uncles old 'hand me down' Amstrad 1512.

@samwyse2006 12 лет назад

The best part was the comparison with Macs and PCs.

@commodorenow5948 7 лет назад

Wow, thanks for sharing this video, the amiga never stops impressing

@santafe37s 7 лет назад

Amiga still the best! Glad I still have my two Amiga 1200 computers!

@GTX200 Год назад

Nice! We all love amiga whatta machine rock solid. Our studio has 3 amiga 500 and 1 amiga 1200 for retro!

@garyproffitt669 7 лет назад

At that time Amiga's not only offered a more stable platform that early windows endeavour's, it also offered better rescue options if a system failed as it could be rebooted very quickly. Part of the early problems with PCs were the fact processors and clones could have inherent bugs in them like the Pentium floating point bug whereas the Motorola 68xxx series were well seasoned, tried and tested creatures.

@valenrn8657 3 года назад

Certain 68060 revision has FPU bugs e.g. the MMULibs software checks the revision of the chip when the computer boots and disables some problematic features. Doing that has a slight hit on performance but it's probably not noticeable. The Amiga 2500 has 68020 or 68030 CPUs. Full documentation is important for NASA and Commodore provided the documentation.

@blast4722 2 года назад

Amiga OS was famous from instability, e.g. unfamous "guru mediation" and also that OS was completely stripped from any memory protection.

@MrJorgalan 12 дней назад

@@blast4722 100% correct .We know that the Amiga had multitasking, but it lacked memory protection. Guru Meditation errors were quite common, especially when opening multiple applications. I believe that everything related to the Amiga is very idealized, while the reality was not like that.

@104d_3rr0r_vince 12 лет назад

I knew it many years back so a sent an email but never got an answer. Thanks for this vid. Amiga will be always in my heart (and on my desk :-D)

@stumpybear60 3 часа назад

I had an Amiga A3000 with a 7 port serial card. I would attach several terminals and run shells on each serial port. This was a multitasking multiuser system. Graphics programs could be run on the main screen at the same time. If I’d had enough terminals, I could have 8 users on the Amiga A3000 at the same time.

@edicoeman 6 лет назад

if the commodore amiga had not gone bankrupt could have been a great computer in the present times

@giggabyt78 11 лет назад

amiga is still out there in your laptops phones desktops

@fifth_elephant 11 лет назад

I laughed pretty hard at the comparison. I'm not even an Amiga (yes, I'm Atari) but this made me get "something in my eye", it just goes to show how well optimised and powerful these computers were. I never understood the hype for the MD/SNES (even though I had an MD myself) when both the Amiga and the ST were doing much more complex things for a longer period of time.

@f1lupo 10 лет назад

Always was & STILL is....ONLY AMIGA :-)

@CelentAle 6 лет назад

Fantastic Document! Amiga Ruuleez on space! 🤞

@PiepsiPanic 12 лет назад

Great!! Thanks for sharing this vid! AMIGA FOREVER!

@Jhough36 5 лет назад

My era. Gary Jones got me hired. I worked with Charlie Michaels in getting parts for the interfaces from Amiga to IBM. I have four C-64s if someone wants them.

@manueljesus3147 7 лет назад

Hal was a standup guy and fair to deal with.

@TableWolfMusic 7 лет назад

Even Nasa used Amigas!

@Foebane72 6 лет назад

AMIGAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

@amigang 6 лет назад

Dam Right!!!!!!

@paulharris719 3 года назад

that s fab i still use my amiga

@CJWarlock 8 лет назад

Like I was always telling people... Amiga Rulez! :)

@xsm5525 Год назад

& even Amiga's used NASA (sorry NASP, 'DJ' software - don't ask!)

@mutalix 3 года назад

*"Only Amiga Makes it Possible!!!"*

@potty127 12 лет назад

If you wanna show someone just what the Amiga was capable of, SHOW'EM THIS!!! :D The Amiga was, and still is, the best computer ever released IMO.

@Okurka. 11 месяцев назад

It still is?

@KoalaJones 4 года назад

Did Commodore use this in their Amiga commercials?

@lewinday7224 3 года назад

Is there a high-resolution video of this anywhere? Who does this video belong to?

@amigang 3 года назад

It was made by Amiga Atlanta / Bob Castro. Not sure if he still about. Best quality I can find. There is a slightly longer version on Cloanto Facebook page i believe.

@amigang 3 года назад

Acually just found a slightly better hig res and the full version here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZxW3E7UMrKM.html Enjoy!

@JoeMuc2008 3 года назад

whoa 😻

@XiwantD 4 года назад

That's why Amiga is the best computer ever.

@Okurka. 11 месяцев назад

I bet you used a PC to type that.

@LasseSrnes 6 лет назад

Wow👍

@janrendek 5 лет назад

Wow

@nukinetix 12 лет назад

Wow!!!!

@RetroGamerVX 12 лет назад

wow, amazing, didn't know that, I bet you can't get the software though lol

@maddoughnut5047 11 лет назад

...nice... yeah micro$soft, it's celled efficiency, something you don't have !!!

@PiotrKaniuk 5 лет назад

144p ?

@Corsa15DT 12 дней назад

Amiga is what people said Apple was.

@TNX255 7 лет назад

I hate it when people rip old analog, already not-the-best quality video footage into digital form, then compress it so much it becomes all blocky, and then after this CROP it from 4:3 aspect ratio into 16:9 and upload it to RU-vid. I don't understand, WHY? Why are you reducing picture quality even more, why do you want to leave a big portion of the original information out from the video? What is so wrong with 4:3? The original video was shot in that format, the camera angles and positions were thought out with 4:3 aspect ratio in mind, the original editing was done with 4:3 viewing in mind, why is it not good enough for you? So frustrating, especially when the subject is of interest :( With this video it's even more ridiculous since it talks about retro computers that had their displays in 4:3, way before computer monitors were widescreen...

@amigang 7 лет назад

I uploaded this at a higher rate only just notice RU-vid for some reason has changed its format, might re-load if I can get permission again.

@TNX255 7 лет назад

amigang Thanks for the response, you should really do that.

@LordPBA 6 лет назад

sorry, it was done using a PC :P

@voidrpg 11 лет назад

The hardware designed for the operating system optimized totall. amiga is verry stable. Exept for mine. I always thinks Why in hell is windows 3.11 so big. its no diferent from amiga os ?

@NiekkieNick 5 лет назад

Hahaha....PC hardware architecture was really about as bad as it is now!! So true!! Windows OS sucks!!! I think the Amiga OS was it's time far ahead and still much better then Windows! I really do hate Windows!

@menotu000 3 года назад

honestly, it's still better than Windows is today... or MacOS... in almost every metric.

@Diggnuts 3 года назад

NASA is weird... Tender parts for launch vehicles like the Shuttle to the lowest bidders but baulking at Amiga because their are cheap...

@indifferentdude7884 10 лет назад

So I guess when the challenger exploded the Amiga was doing a "Guru meditation"!

@hardwiredxs 7 лет назад

IndifferentDude Actually it was in january of 1986, the Amigas were introduced after that. And as it says in the interview they didn't handle the space shuttle directly, but the user telemetry... So it wasn't either funny or accurate your remark on the accident that resulted in death of the astronauts...

@Foebane72 6 лет назад

IndifferentDude You are SICK, sir.

@spearPYN 5 лет назад

I guess they never heard about Linux or *BSD at the time.

@menotu000 3 года назад

At the time they needed the Amigas, Linux and BSD didn't exist... only full fat UNIX. That is why the DEC Alphas were mentioned. Too expensive, remember? Linux wasn't released till 1992. So the only choice would have been DEC Alpha or other similar systems ranging in price from the high 10s of thousands per system (for a mini) to hundreds of thousands (high end - close to the million mark) for the full large system. Add on top of that a UNIX license (per processor or per seat depending on the UNIX variant), and now you have spent a helluva lot of money... not to mention, DEC would never open up their schematics to allow NASA to create the custom interface hardware necessary to the job. Amiga 1000s on the other hand cost (at release time) $1285.00 per unit... a considerable price difference... also, no extra OS needed... what came with it was fine as the OS was built to be multitasking and realtime from jump street. What made that possible is the custom chipset, good engineering principles on design, and good software writers. Additionally, Commodore Business Machines opened up their schematics and other engineering sheets to NASA for use so that custom hardware could be designed and implemented. I know you're a fan of Linux/BSD and so am I... but it just wasn't an option then, and even if it were, the necessary hardware was way to expensive for the realtime access needed... additionally, at the time, Linux would have been far less mature an OS as well (had it been released then) and would not have handled the realtime aspects well. I don't know if you remember early Linux, but I do, and it is a far cry from what we have today. There were stability issues, timing issues, compatibility issues, etc... they got ironed out over time, but it took a few versions to iron out a lot of it... some of it still exists today. Back in 1985, there was no better overall system than the Amiga. It had great graphics, sound, RAM, realtime OS included (GUI), and a shitload of expansion options all for that introductory price. I was never able to afford one back then (I had an Atari 800xl with a cassette drive and a single floppy drive) which was expensive too... but I loved my little machine till lightning got it. 😫