Name's Chris. Avid motorcyclist, ham radio operator and general electronics geek.
When I was 12 or so, I bought an Amiga 1000 from a guy off of a BBS. I think I paid about $25. No monitor, just the computer and the keyboard. The floppy drive was jammed, the RAM expansion in the front was missing the plastic cover. The floppy drive eject button was gone. It was yellow.
It was in bad shape. But I got it going and used the heck out of it. Unjammed the floppy drive. Never did find an eject button or RAM cover, but it didn't matter. I loved it just the same and just used the corner of a floppy to eject the disk that was in there. Had a parallel printer on it, and a modem. Got an external 3.5" drive, an external 5.25" drive, and had a great time doing a ton of stuff with only 512k RAM and no hard drive. I loved the fact I could tuck the keyboard in underneath it and keep the dust out
I had disk after disk of .MOD files, and never ceased to be impressed by the quality of the audio it produced. Playing Lemmings on it was so much fun!
Some years later I loaned it to a "friend", who evidently misunderstood me, and when I asked for it back, he told me he'd sold it.
Anyway, I've toyed with the idea of getting back into the Amiga community, I found these forums and thought I'd get more serious about getting back into it.
I so loved my A1000. I was a fool to let it get out of my sight. Maybe someday I will find one!
