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Amiga reference in "Invasion USA" fiction
Posted on 1-Apr-2013 18:50:12
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| My wife is reading a fiction series titled "Invasion USA" on her Kindle.
The story line follows a theme of all our electronic devices being sourced from China, and a "hidden flaw" of some sort causing all of this technology to fail at some date in our near future.
The surprise came when the story unfolded, it seems after all the PCs died, they found a working computer! It was "An Amiga P.C. made by Commodore in 1985", and the search was on to gather up more of these unusually reliable old computers.
Well, that's as much as I got from her, but she was quite amused by it all.
The series is called "Invasion USA", the reference I speak of is in book 2, and the author is T.I. Wade.
I wonder if Mr. Wade is among us?
[edit] My wife has asked me to add that it's a minor reference, and one should not buy the series expecting a story about Amigas. Last edited by lylehaze on 01-Apr-2013 at 07:04 PM.
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Re: Amiga reference in "Invasion USA" fiction
Posted on 1-Apr-2013 21:43:32
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this happened to the PS3 and many other devices (tv's, phones etc) 1st of march 2010, the "bug" actually made the units really unstable and could corrupt filesystems and destroy digital content and so on.
anyway some press reference:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/ps3-crash-fix-due-within-24-hours-6252585
seems to be a interesting book , time to skimm amazon 
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Re: Amiga reference in "Invasion USA" fiction
Posted on 2-Apr-2013 7:57:51
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Yes, damn it.
I lost half of my trophies on that bug. I was away from home with no internet connection, so I didn't have the time to sync them. 
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Re: Amiga reference in "Invasion USA" fiction
Posted on 2-Apr-2013 16:43:40
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