Nice thread. Had to reply when I stumbled across it.
I so loved the Amiga and Commodore era.
I myself worked for a CBM outlet approaching almost 10 years from memory.
Unfortunately I left in the last year before CBM fell so I missed out on all the wonderful AGA machines.
Here are my machines in order of when I bought them.
Vic-20
(Left High School)
C64
(Started working for CBM)
(Ran my first BBS on c64 [ The Transcendental Connection. (Punternet BBS)]
8250LP Dual 1MB drives. (Never returned from service sadly when CBM went down)
A1000 (Ran many different BBS packages on this, I was FIDO 3:640/281).
A2000 (Briefly. traded this on an A3000 a few weeks later. Barely remember it.)
A3000 (Ran Paragon / Cnet BBS on this machine).
(Left CBM, went to College studding Ass.Dip.Info.Tech)
(Collected the following since)
A600HD
A500
I still don't own an AGA machine sadly nor have I ever played an AGA game.
Life can be so cruel!
Would like to add to my collection an A2000(B,Rev6.2) & A1200.
The Amiga had a killer following in Australia back in the day.
I spent all my CBM years on the sales floor and in that time I would sell about 99% Amiga's and the rest PC, Amstrad, Atari etc.
Amiga's were also very popular with the universities.
3/4 of the walls in the store were covered with Amiga software.
The Amiga BBS I ran run hot 24/7 I could only afford the one phone line back in the day.
Even after I turned it off the phone still rang hot with users still looking for the BBS.
This only stopped when I had to say goodbye to the land line phone 3+ years ago in favor of an Optus Cable connection and Billion 6404VGP VoIP router for my phone line.
I wish I could have hung on to the number some how. Maybe one day I can get it back but the cost of line rental just didn't make it affordable.
Probably the most sold Amiga would have been the A500.
Unfortunately though they were also probably the most dumped Amiga after the fad ended.
Mainly because not many were sold with hard drives.
A2000's, A3000's often fell victim in storage from the dreaded clock battery leaking.
I had the honor of meeting Nick Wilson who wrote sysinfo a few times as Toowoomba is only a few hours from here (Ipswich).
Glen McDiarmid author of Resource (Machine code disassembler) was a good friend for many many years. In fact he only lived two blocks away from me for a very long time. I also went to college with him when I left CBM. I still have a copy of his software here now!.
http://amiga-dev.wikidot.com/tool:resourceThese days I am part of a group called "The Retro Computing Cult".
http://shazam.zapto.orgWe collect and display old retro machines.
Other then CBM machines listed above I now also have.
BBC Micro, Tandy 100, System 80, Apple IIe Platinum (Faulty sadly), TI-99/4A, DSE Cat, MicroBee, Vectrex.
We also run a Retro Computing chat line that can be accessed free world wide via VoIP and from most major cities in the world via PSTN gateways for the cost of a local call.
Click on Igal on our website to see some pictures of the machines we have recovered.
Great seeing all you Aussie Amiga nuts online!.
Remember..
Only Amiga Makes it Possible!!
.-.-.