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`12.Jun.2003` Motorola GmbH (E-Mail)	Motorola: The Handy Turns 20 The mobile telephone has turned 20 years old. Since the 1983 introduction of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the cellphone has turned from the prestigious posession of executives to the constantly present tool for everyman. Few other inventions have changed life so much in the last two decades. Note from translator: the article goes on into a long German language history of the cellphone. If desired, you may copy the address of the amiga-news.de German language article (http://www.amiganews.de/de/news/AN-2003-06-00096-DE.html) into an automatic translation service, such as that found at http://www.altavista.com by clicking on the "translate" link. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 12. Jun. 2003, 17:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jun.2003` morphos-news.de	Video about the Pegasos-TV-Report on Hungarian television The online news magazine reports about the availability of a video of about 20 minutes about the Pegasos board and MorphOS on the Hungarian television "fix tv". The video which has a size of around 170 MB is available in MPEG and DivX format and can be downloaded under the title link. A version with English captions is in work. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 06. Jun. 2003, 15:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Jun.2003`	Obituary: Jay Glenn Miner (31st May 1932 - 20th June 1994) This Saturday 71 years ago, on the 31st May 1932, Jay Glenn Miner was born. Miner is regarded as one of the most prominent chip designers in the world and as the father of the Amiga. In the middle of the seventies he developed the TIA chip, originally for medical applications, later for use in the legendary Atari 2600. With the ANTIC and the GTIA chipsets he laid the foundation for the Atari 8bit family. After the founding of the company Hi-Toro which was later renamed into Amiga, Miner worked on the joyboard, a revolutionary control device for the Atari 2600 and the ColecoVision and on the work of his life, the Multimedia chipset for the 68000 based games console Lorraine which was renamed into "Amiga 1000" after the purchase of the company by Commodore and turned into a full-fledged computer. Miner passed away on 20th June 1994 due to kidney failure. He was regarded as a revolutionary computer designer and an extraordinary person. (nba) (Translation: cb) [News message: 01. Jun. 2003, 15:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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