How the Commodore Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the ’90s

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How the Commodore Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s:

In terms of planning our lives around what our TVs spit out, we've come a long way from the overly condensed pages of TV Guide.

In fact, the magazine was already looking awful obsolete in the 1980s and 1990s, when cable systems around the country began dedicating entire channels to listing TV schedules.

[...] But before all that was the Commodore Amiga[*], a device that played a quiet but important role in the cable television revolution.

The Amiga was a much-loved machine, huge among a cult of users who embraced its impressive video and audio capabilities, which blew away every other platform at the time of its release.

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