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Amiga 500

Commodore · 1987

The Amiga 500 is a pivotal hardware milestone—not because it introduced new silicon, but because it delivered proven multitasking and colour graphics to mainstream retail at a time when competitors treated those features as optional or impossible in home systems. Its success relied on reuse, repackaging, and distribution—not invention.