Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985
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HN comment orderETA: I think it's awesome they found and recovered this data. As I recall, Warhol's Amiga usage was actually very limited. He used it for the Carnegie Hall A1000 demo (that was on software and hardware that was still prototype and the Amiga people were praying would work - it did), b/c Commodore paid him, but he didn't actually use the Amiga beyond that. Looking at what they recovered, it makes sense that he would have tried to make a…
I define myself as a former Amiga owner. That computer was so defining and the community so strong sad that Jack Tramiel went out to kill the Amiga with the Atari ST. These Andy Warhol pictures were a claim to fame for many Amiga owners and it was awesome to know that they were found right next to the bouncing red and white ball. It must have taken around 6 or 7 years for the Macintosh and "IBM PC" computers…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-24 | Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985First breakout · Best thread | yankcrime | 154 | 42 |
| 2015-04-22 | Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (2014) | gkop | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-12-25 | Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (2014) | j1vms | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-01-26 | Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (2014)Latest 20+ point return | ForHackernews | 148 | 71 |