Interview with the creator of AmigaDOS
Uploader: The Digital Orphanage
Original upload date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 15:35:30 GMT
The Amiga is one of my all time favourite computers and a chance encounter via the Museum of Computing, where I volunteer, offered the opportunity to interview Dr Tim King and his wife Jessica about t
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heir important contribution to the release of the ground breaking Amiga 1000 computer. Without the TRIPOS operating system the Amiga's launch would have been seriously delayed.
I am very grateful to Tim and Jessica for allowing me to take up so much of their time on the day of the interview. This was my first multi-camera, multi-mic interview!
I hope you enjoy this fascinating interview.
I look forward to refurbishing the Amiga 1000 Tim donated to the Museum of Computing; subscribe and activate notifications to know about new videos as soon as I release them.
● Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:40 TRIPOS and the Cambridge University years
13:29 Motorola 68000 and the Bath University years
19:50 Moving to Metacomco
24:32 Amiga needs an operating system
45:10 Amiga launch event
52:10 Perihelion, Transputer and the Helios OS
57:59 UK Online
1:03:03 Consulting on the early Internet
1:05:42 Venture capital technology assurance
1:07:27 Providing rural broadband into retirement
● Amiga related questions from TDO followers
1:08:21 Question from Pixelvixen (Twitter @future_saviors)
1:11:27 Question from Pete (Twitter @RetroBC_Pete)
1:12:53 Question from Tomas Kouba (Twitter @TomasKouba2)
1:15:37 Question from Doug (Twitter @10MARC1)
1:18:26 Question from polyp2000 (Twitter @polyp2000)
1:20:09 Question from South West Amiga Group (Twitter @SouthWestAmiga)
1:21:08 Question from Dale Lawson (Twitter @Hamrdeye)
1:23:02 Question from Hoffman (Twitter @djh0ffman)
1:23:31 Outro
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● Music in order of being played:
Psychic Need (Chasms)
● Video related links
Amiga Launch video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3x00Pbs2K8
Newtek Video Toaster Demo Reel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seznQmDp2pU
inmos Transputer promotioal video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdK3PXKvYgs
#Amiga #AmigaDos #TRIPOS