Hehe, had the same reaction to the name, but when I think about the word for 'computer' in Brazilian Portuguese (which is the one I'm fluent in), it makes more sense: 'computador parceiro'. Still weird phrasing, but... less grammatically challenging :P
I've studied romance languages and I've always wondered... how jarring is it for a native speaker when grammatical gender is incorrect? In other words, how "wrong" does it sound when someone swaps the o/a on a word? Do you have to stop and think for a split second to make sense of what is being said, or does it still make sense without extra thought?
Interestingly enough, HP had a computer named "Amigo". It was a stack-based architecture and many of its features moved on to the HP-3000 line. It had the same widescreen monochrome CRT that went in their intelligent terminals, with function keys on the right of the screen.
I think it could do graphics at resolutions higher than the Amigas, but no sound.
Blake Patterson has a beautiful tribute to No Man's Sky[1] done on an Amiga 1000 if anyone wants to see one in action. I really love his more recent Amiga retrospective[2] and he has a great Amiga 1000 photo album[3] too.
I have the motherboard and power supply (and the 256K front memory card is around somewhere) but can't seem to find the case or keyboard or the floppy, I even think I still have my boing optical mouse around somwhere. I no longer have a monitor for it.
I attempted a PC case mod a bunch of years ago that went wrong so I keep hoping one of those retro case projects (like the one for the 500 and 1200) will target the 1000 but alas I think the addressable market is too small for the effort.
Personally, I'd sell what you have (there's plenty of dead/sick A1000s looking for donor parts), and put the money towards a working A500 (if you still want an OCS Amiga).
The A1000 is a lovely museum piece (I have one also), but for actual use, an A500 is much more accessible and expandable.
Yeah, I've thought about it. A replica 500 is doable (new cases, FPGA that fits inside etc) and I've realized it would be mostly about playing old games and was just looking at the A1500 Mini case this afternoon. But... I will most likely just put together a Mister system at some point.
Amigo parceiro.
Amiga parceira.
To be clear, I mean to this lightheartedly. Great work!