Commodore Amiga 500

With its keyboard-integrated body and distinctive graphics-and-sound culture, the Commodore Amiga 500 represents the home-computing experience of the 1980s. The Amiga family began with the Amiga 1000, introduced at New York’s Lincoln Center in 1985; the Amiga 500 followed in 1987 and brought the platform’s games, music and visual creativity to a much wider audience. This piece preserves the strong design language of a period when the computer became a centre for discovery and entertainment at home.