July 23 1985, Commodore introduced its Amiga 1000: 10 years ahead of its time

# Summary On July 23, 1985, Commodore introduced the Amiga 1000, a computer featuring advanced capabilities like 4,096-color graphics, stereo sound, a graphical user interface, and full preemptive multitasking—innovations that wouldn't become standard for another decade. What set the Amiga apart from competitors like the Apple Macintosh and Atari ST was its sophisticated multitasking operating system, which rivaled Windows 95 in capability despite the base model costing around $2,000. The machine's cutting-edge technology was so advanced that industry engineers later described it as dragging the entire computer industry from the 1970s into the 1990s.