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http://gizmodo.com/andy-warhols-lost-...

"The Andy Warhol Museum has recovered a series of artworks created by the famed pop artist in the mid-1980s using a Commodore Amiga home computer. Newly retrieved from old floppy disks, they're now available for all to see.

In fact, the images have only come to light because new media artist Cory Arcangel stumbled across a YouTube clip of Warhol using a Commodore Amiga way back in 1985. The video, taken from a launch event for the computer, showed Warhol using the hardware to make digital art. Which got Arcangel thinking: where, exactly, were Warhol's digital images?"

As a young man I knew Andy Warhol, in the sense that my agency gave him as a graphic designer work. He'd come lean against the door of my office. We went to each other's parties. That, I imagine, was about as intimate as anyone got with Warhol, a very vague acquaintanceship. Can't say his computer art is much chop. In 1985 was doing better than than on a Mac Plus which took twenty minutes to start up.