Hey, all...here's my story...
May 1988 -- I get a Commodore 64C as an 8th grade graduation present. Shortly afterwards I upgrade it with an old Dataset. [Ooooooooooooooooooh!] That year I get a 1541-II floppy drive for Christmas.
February 1993 -- I need something better. Having seen several Amigas in action, I decide I absolutely need one. I get the Amiga 600 from the now-defunct Tenex. I loved that little machine. I worked for the football team where I was going to college [well, nowadays it's a university], and on road trips I'd take the A600 with me, and we'd play Pinball Fantasies, Desert Strike, Madden Football, etc. in the hotel rooms the nights before games. Nice portable machine.
Fall/Winter 1997 -- I decide to get a "project Amiga" to upgrade, so I buy an old Amiga 500 from a coworker. Hmmm...I've already been upgrading the A600 pretty nicely; why can't THAT one be my project Amiga? So I sell the A500 to a friend who in turn sells it to his nephew.
December 1998 -- I really need to upgrade to something with AGA graphics. While looking through comp.sys.amiga.marketplace for perhaps an Amiga 1200 tower, I find an Amiga 4000 with decent accessories and stuff for a really nice price.
Decmber 1999 -- I upgrade the 4000 with a TekMagic 4060 accelerator.
October 2000 -- I upgrade further with a Cyberstorm PPC.
December 2000 -- I get the A4000 Power-Towered, and when it returns I learn why I couldn't get the computer to boot before I sent it for towering: the Cyberstorm blew. Software Hut gives me a loaner Cyberstorm MKIII 060 to use until mine comes back from DCE.
June 2001 -- I get a replacement Cyberstorm PPC from Software Hut.
July 2001 -- replacement Cyberstorm PPC blows. I immediately get ANOTHER one from Software Hut, who expedited one almost immediately. Two weeks later: THAT one blows.
September 2001 -- the Cyberstorm MKIII 060, which I bought earlier because I was fed up with the PPC and didn't want to surrender the 060, blows out! I get another TekMagic and a refund as a replacement...TekMagic still works beautifully to this day.
December 2004 -- I order the AmigaOne micro C from Software Hut and am VERY IMPATIENT because they're sold out and not expecting the next batch for a week or two....!!! Oh man...can't wait!!!
Anyhoo...I'm a man of many professions in my fairly young [30 years old] life...I've been a radio DJ, a tech support guy for Sharp PDAs, a magazine editor, a writer [and I still write from time to time - I had a couple of articles in
Total Amiga; mine are recognizable because they have the fewest typos and run-on sentences.
], a test prep instructor, a PR guy [ * shudder * ], a library clerk assistant, a webmaster....
