Well, I had an Atari 800XL first and then I bought a Sega Master System, and then I got a SNES. But SNES games were really expensive, so I could only afford a game every 3 months, and my friend had an Amiga 500 which he had hundreds of games for.
He told me all about the Amiga and how you could get games for free so I sold the SNES and I got an Amiga 600 with a Bart Simpson game. Then he let me copy his games too so soon I had over 2000 disks of games. I also started collecting demos and learning to code around this time, and wrote 4 or 5 intros.
I kept the A600 for two years, collecting more games, buying some originals too (about 10 a year), until the A1200 came out which I bought right away, selling the A600 to my brother's friend. Then I started hacking away at Workbench copperlists to see how AGA worked and wrote some small AGA demos, which was amazing at the time.
Soon I upgraded the A1200 with Fast RAM, hard drive and an FPU, and kept using it up to the end of my second year at University. At University, I had to code in Borland Turbo Pascal for some of my assignments. I had no PC so I bought "PCTask" and ran DOS 5.0 and Turbo Pascal on the Amiga, but it was so slow that eventually I had to give up and bought a "fast" 386 40Mhz PC with 1MB SVGA card and 120MB hard drive, SVGA monitor etc, which cost me less than it would have costed for a 030 board for the A1200.
Then I had 7 years of being a PC user, cursing Windows, until 2000 when a guy at work was talking about his Amigas (he had a couple of A4000's and an A1200) and it brought back memories so I bought an A600 with hard drive from the local paper. I got a PCMCIA CDROM drive for it too, and then bought an A1200T from ebay with 030-50 and hard drive/cdrom drive etc.
Then I upgraded to a Blizzard PPC board, then mediator and Voodoo3, TV card, etc, then finally I bought an A4000 and bought an Elbox Mirage case with Mediator 4000 and put all the PCI cards in it, and finally bought a CyberStormPPC. I sold this A4000 system back in August/September last year, when AmigaOne/OS4 was "just about to be released", and I had joined the "I am Amiga" club, as I needed the money to buy the A1. Of course, OS4 never materialized and I was very disillusioned by now so went back to using PCs.
Then I got more and more interested in MorphOS, talking to people on IRC about it, realising how comitted the developers were, and how talented, and seeing the way Genesi supported the community in a way AInc never had. So, now I'm a comitted MOS'er. If OS4 ever comes out I would buy it, because Hyperion deserves the support, but I'm not wasting any more time.