Current uses

[Desmon]

My A500 just serve to fill the cupboard in the spare room, and as containers for spare CIA chips.

My other Amigas all get used regularly though. If it weren't for the A2000, I couldn't type this here....

[xeron]

Well, I used to use my A500 for testing software that I wanted to run on 68000/ECS. (i'd program it on my A4000 68060, Mediator etc. etc.), but now its in my parents loft with my spare-parts A1200, and my A600.

In my flat I have my A4000 (which is in daily use as my main computer), and my A1500 (which is used to run things that require Paula audio; sadly my A4000's built in sound is dead), and playing old games. The 1500 has a GVP G-Force 030, SCSI hard disk, network card, and GVP IO Extender.

[Matt_H]

My A500's been working the basement shift for a couple years now.  It's kept company by my dad's audio gear and a standard A3000. We were going to use them for audio production, but never got around to it. They both still work, though the 3000 is in several pieces..

[JimS]

I never owned a complete 500.. but I've got a couple of old motherboards stashed for spare parts...  I did see one at the Salvation Army store last week... standing out among all those 286-386-486 class machines.
My 2000s are collecting dust... but they got some company today. One of my old customers called me & said to come over and pick it up...  So I got a 2000HD and a 1000 for the collection.... 3 A2000s, 3A1000s..  
The most recent use is porting those old floppy disks to CDs.
 

[gonzoninja]

I got my A500 off Ebay to play all those games I coundn't afford as a kid but now can. Yay...

[N7VQM]

My A500 is an on-going failing experiment in firmware and 68000 assembler programming.  It acts nothing like an A500 these days, if it acts at all.

[PMC]

The A500 is really only useful foir nostalgia purposes these days.....  Saying that, I've two at home (1x OCS wb 1.2, 1x ECS wb 1.3)......  I can never bring myself to throwing them out!  

Get hold of an A1200 as it is a great starter system.  You can fit a huge range of upgrades to it, from hard drives to PPC accelerator cards, even PCI busboards and Voodoo graphics cards!