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CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 22-Oct-2014 11:55:36
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 22-Oct-2014 14:44:47
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 22-Oct-2014 16:11:07
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Yeah, pretty much this. Anyone who wants to get access to various non-PC filesystems is going to want to buy hardware to cope with it. Up until the likes of the Catweasel and so on, it would have been very hard to drag files off Amiga floppies without original hardware. I imagine even now that there's going to be big box Amigas lying around in various offices connected to intelligence and law enforcement.
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 22-Oct-2014 21:17:16
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Yeah, DoomMaster was right about the A2000 being MIL spec.
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 22-Oct-2014 21:56:55
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Is this Mil-spec thing ever going to die????? lol _________________
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 22-Oct-2014 22:25:31
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MIL-specs are done to last _________________ Cuida tus piedras gordas.
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 23-Oct-2014 0:56:46
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| Did anyone actually read the article? :)
The CIA is actually justifying continued usage of the Amiga using all the reasons that made the Amiga stand out from its competition back in that day... It had nothing to do with information gathering and everything to do with information sharing.
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 23-Oct-2014 1:03:48
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In two more weeks ;p
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 23-Oct-2014 1:51:09
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 24-Oct-2014 1:06:18
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 24-Oct-2014 20:19:19
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| I have no idea if they did that, I only know that the report wasn't about that. It was about "why the CIA should buy more Amigas." ;) |
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Re: CIA used Amiga and even recently tried to cover up the costs!? Posted on 24-Oct-2014 21:46:58
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The first link speaks about some information being covered in said document that was already public knowledge, the price they paid for their amigas, so to speak, which was subsequently revealed after someone inquiries.We all knew the text was about amigas usefulness at the time.
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