The year that the "dream machine" came out when Amiga 1000 introduced in Lincoln Center at New York. Many people say that this was the date that changed the future of computers. (Multimedia ... back in 1985!)

The Amiga 1000 shipped to its first customers.

Amiga 1000

(*): The Very First Amiga used 128k ram.

It was the FIRST computer to use more than 16 color output as a standard feature (4096 colors / HAM6 [Hold And Modify]). It was also the first computer with preemptive multitasking OS. It already had 4 channel digital stereo sound and the first computer to ship with a mouse as a standard.

The kickstart was loaded from floppy. The price was about $2000 in the days where singletasking PC's (286) cost about $4000.

It only had one external expansion slot because Commodore wanted to keep costs down.

At the same year the first issue of "Amiga World" made its debut. It was the first Amiga magazine...