I've been hooked on Commodores and Amigas ever since...well, since MITS bit the dust. (I really lusted after an Altair 8800.) A friend of mine bought an 8K PET in 1978 while I was in high school, and I finally picked up a Commodore 64 in 1983. An Amiga 1000 followed in 1988, my last year in the Navy, and I then upgraded to an A3000 in 1991. That was my primary computer for over thirteen years; I finally moved (kicking and screaming all the way) to a Windows 2000 Dell in late 2004. The Dell was a secondhand gift from my mother, so my record is still perfect; I have yet to put a dime in Bill Gates' pocket.
Although I use the Windows box most of the time (like right now) I haven't forgotten the A3000; I'm trying to hook it up to the PC via Samba and I'm even considering the purchase of an accelerator and graphics card. (It's still the stock 25MHz 68030; the original graphics components were damaged by battery leakage in the early '90s. Although professionally repaired at the time, they continue to degrade; my original display enhancer is now useless and I'm losing the red and green outputs to my current monitor).
While I've been an avid Amiga user, I haven't really participated in the Amiga "scene" since leaving the Navy and SCAUG (Southern California Amiga Users Group) in 1988. It's taken me this long to register at any Amiga forums. But, better late than never!
