Editing Amiga (section)

===Launch===
The first model was announced in 1985 as simply "The Amiga from Commodore", later to be retroactively dubbed the [[Amiga 1000]].{{efn|The name "Amiga" was chosen because it is the [[Spanish language|Spanish]] word for ''(female) friend'', and alphabetically it appears before Apple in lists of computer makers. It originated as a project code-named "Lorraine", therefore the female was used instead of the male and general version ''Amigo''.}} They were first offered for sale in August, but by October only 50 had been built, all of which were used by Commodore. Machines only began to arrive in quantity in mid-November, meaning they missed the Christmas buying rush.<ref name=p4p2>{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/12/amiga-history-part-5/ |title=A history of the Amiga, part 5: postlaunch blues |website=Ars Technica |first=Jeremy |last=Reimer |date=21 October 2007 |access-date=14 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704092503/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/12/amiga-history-part-5/ |archive-date=4 July 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> By the end of the year, they had sold 35,000 machines, and severe cashflow problems made the company pull out of the January 1986 CES.<ref name=p5p2>{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/12/amiga-history-part-5/2/ |title=A history of the Amiga, part 5: postlaunch blues |website=Ars Technica |first=Jeremy |last=Reimer |date=21 October 2007 |access-date=14 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704101525/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/12/amiga-history-part-5/2/ |archive-date=4 July 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Bad or entirely missing marketing, forcing the development team to move to the east coast, notorious stability problems and other blunders limited sales in early 1986 to between 10,000 and 15,000 units a month.<ref name="p5p1"/> 120,000 units were reported as having been sold from the machine's launch up to the end of 1986.<ref name="computerworld19870615_amiga">{{ cite magazine | url=https://archive.org/details/computerworld2124unse/page/39/mode/1up | title=Memory up for Amiga | magazine=Computerworld | last1=Bright | first1=David | date=15 June 1987 | access-date=26 April 2024 | pages=39, 42 }}</ref>