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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: jnordness on May 09, 2006, 04:42:54 PM
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Hey everybody. I have been interested in Amiga's for a while now, and I just picked up my first one; an old A1000 from a garage sale for free. Unfortunately, no kickstart or OS disks. Is there anyone out there that can help me out? Anyone near UIUC? I know I can't do much with the 1000, but it would be fun to tinker aroundwith it. Thanks!
Joel
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Welcome to Amiga.org! Great to see another new user
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welcome aboard :-) i wish i could help :roll:
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Welcome!
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Welcome! Stick around, make yourself at home:-)
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welcome! this place rocks and the folks are hella coola.
everyone here seems to have upmost respect for the amiga and its fans!
a sweet bonus is that everyone is generous with helping us newbies (unlike a majority of sites where a newb gets no pointers or respect)!
so dont be afraid to ask for some help!check out the faq's and stickys in the threads first, there is a plethora on info on the site!
im a newb also but have had so much help its insane!
im not brown noseing nor am i kissing ass!
this place rocks!plain and simple!
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Welcome to A.Org!
- Ali
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Welcome to A.org!
And congrats on your A1000 purchase.. the amiga platform is a lot of fun.
*now, who wants to break the news to him about the A1000.
The A1000 will be a great classic gaming machine. Though expandability and other options will be limited. Honestly, I think I still have a v1.2 A100 Kickstart floppy and workbench disks still that I will probably never use again. PM me your info and I will see what I can do for ya.
-Debaser
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Welcome and enjoy your a1000!
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Hello jnordness, And Welcome to A.O.
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Welcome. The 1000 was a really nice machine in its time. I still like the cosmetic aspects of its design.
Have fun with those retro games.
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Wow, thanks for the warm welcome! I may decide to pick up a more modern (for lack of a better word) Amiga one of these days, but seeing the prices of the A1200's and A4000's, I'm still on the fence. I am just not sure yet how much practical modern computing I can do with the old technology.
Joel
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I am just not sure yet how much practical modern computing I can do with the old technology.
I can identify with this statement 100%. I am in the process of upgrading my old Amiga 500.
I think as long as we realize the computer is 20 years old, we should b able to get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Personally, I am stubborn. I like to think I can get this thing up to the speed and performance of a Pentium :)
Enjoy Amiga.org!
-Miked
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I am just not sure yet how much practical modern computing I can do with the old technology
Hey, my old home town of Madison Maine got it's first public access bulletin board back in '95 when I sold them my A1000. I can't remember what the programs name was (TVText I think), but it required a script to run the pictures. I had to spend a lot of time helping to run the thing! The guy assigned by the town council was an old bookseller who never really "got it" as far as handling the display program. Then the High School Librarian, who was in charge of the computer bought a 1200 with Scalla. But it was shut up in a cabinet, and the heat buildup caused problems with the 1200. Ultimately, they went with a PC, because there was no support for the 1200.
It was fun, taking the old A1000 into the council room and demonstrating TVText. They were impressed enough, that they wrote me a $800 check, which promptly went into buying an A500!
So, check EBAY out, people often seem to sell old programs there, and you'll probably find all sorts of cool stuff to put on it.
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Well the A1000 is really old and you wont be able to do much modern stuff with it (like go onlin and surf the web, or open word/rtf documents, play mp3 files or PDF files) A updated A2/3/4000 with latest OS and software from Aminet will! You can get lots of games for it and enjoy them. But in your case I would try to find a friend close by to help with copying the ADFs (Disk images you get get off the net) to real disks for you. Enjoy!!
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@jnordness
Welcome to amiga.org. Hope you get your A1000 going.
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redfox
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Yeah, from the looks of it the A1000 is more of a curiosity than a practical machine. I think I will try to search for a more modern machine and in the mean time, see what I can scrounge up for the old 1000. Thanks for all of your input and wisdom. I'm glad I'm not the only one with those concerns.
Joel
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@jnordness
I think Eric Schwartz lives near there. There should even be a whole Amiga user group. Amigafest and what not.
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Where in IL are you? I'm up in Gurnee.
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I am also a new Amiga.org member from Illinois.. I'm up north in Rockford, Il. I'm also the treasurer of SWRAP, Chicago's C64/Amiga User Group.
I started out around 1990 with an Amiga 1000, then a 500, and then around 94-95 upgraded to a 2000. I still have both the 500 and the 2000, although considering I retired the 2000 in 1995 (needed a PC for Comp Sci degree in college) it's stats are probably rather anemic compared to most modern amigas:
A2000
m-tec 68020i accelerator
3-5 mb ram (don't remember exactly;)
2 external floppies, 1 high density
ks3.1 / workbench 3.1
now I just need a new scsi drive -- my old one died a few years back of "click death."
TW