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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: runequester on September 09, 2011, 04:10:45 AM
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20 years ago.
What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?
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A500 with memory expansion and additionnal floppy drive, C=2080 monitor
This paved the way to a fully loaded A4000D a couple years later :)
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20 years ago was about a year before my dad picked up our first computer, a second-hand Macintosh IIcx. We got by on 68k Macs until 1997 (yes, really,) when one of my aunts bought us our first PC. Didn't get into the Amiga until 2001, actually.
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20 years ago.
What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?
1991? I was on my second A2000 (actually an A1500). IIRC it was a stock 68000 CPU with ECS chipset, 3.5MB RAM (1MB on mobo, 512KB salvaged from the original A2000 on a Zorro card, and 2MB on my GVP SCSI controller), 2 floppy drives, KS1.3 and KS2.0 on a keyboard controlled ROM switcher, 128MB SCSI hard drive with a WB1.3 and WB2.0 setup which booted into the correct Workbench by detecting which Kickstart was active at boot (I think I used something called WHATKICK in my startup-sequence), Microway SDFF & 15" VGA monitor and a cheap-arsed colour dot-matrix printer.
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A4000D w/Cyberstorm PPC/060 64M RAM
PicassoIV gfx card with Concierto sound card
Oktagon SCSI with CD-R and CD-ROM
Boingball mouse, original keyboard
21" AOC monitor
Can't remember what was the size of my hard drive. 4Gb maybe..
I sold this Amiga in 1999 and still waiting for a new one since...keeping my hopes for the X1000 or Natami or might get tempted by a SAM in a near future.
They had the A4000 out in 1991? I couldn't remember whether I got my A1200 in '91 or '92... I'm getting old and senile. :D
Edit: Actually, I think I'm right. From Wikipedia:
There are two models, the A4000/040 released in October 1992 with a Motorola 68040 CPU, and the A4000/030 released in April 1993 with a Motorola 68EC030.
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Edited my message, I realized in 1991 I was still with my A500 :P sorry
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Edited my message, I realized in 1991 I was still with my A500 :P sorry
LOL. In fairness, it was a looooooooooooooooong time ago. :D
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In '91, I had a 512kb single drive A1000 in the living room, sitting next to my coffee table, hooked to a 27" professional Panasonic monitor (not TV) w/ all sorts of discrete inputs (ganked it from a McDonald's that I worked at years ago that was used for training purposes and was hooked to a 3/4" professional video player). In the bedroom, sat a 1mb A500 hooked to a 1084s monitor, where I did all my "serious" work. Pics to follow if I can find them.
Also in the living room, across from the A1000, was a C64c with 1802 and a 1541 drive. Again, pics to follow. I was 19-20 years old. Had a Donkey Kong cocktail table arcade, Bally Star Trek pinball and a Gottlieb Count Down pinball in the same small apartment.
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Had a Donkey Kong cocktail table arcade, Bally Star Trek pinball and a Gottlieb Count Down pinball in the same small apartment.
I bet you had lots of friends too!
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20 years ago.
What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?
1991? I still was on the Commodore 128 in 1991! I didn't get an Amiga until the fall of 1993 when I started college. I still have my first Amiga: the A1200HD40 (NTSC model).
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My first Amiga was an Amiga 500. Before it was ruined by a relative trying to solder 0.5MB chip RAM on it I had a GVP SCSI controller and 52MB harddrive, 286 PC bord for it, 1MB RAM expansion, 2.800bps modem and some nice Philips monitor (not the 8833). When it broke I had a painfull time with my C64, a friend borrowed me his A1200 for a week :) .
Eventually I got the A4000D and hardware that I had and have for that one was and are CyberStorm Mk II 040/40MHz with SCSI-module, SCSI CD-ROM, CyberVision64/3D, Apollo 4060, CyberStormPPC, FastATA, CyberVision, Mediator tower, Voodoo 3, Voodoo 4, SoundBlaster 128, Zorro III card with parallell, serial ports and ethernet add on, PCI ethernet card, CD-burner... some monitors, some adapter for PC mice making scrollwheel work and probably lots of things that I don't remember. Oh I had a big tower before the Mediator.
Then The AmigaOne and right now I'm kinda tired of Amiga all together :-P .
I'm thinking about selling my A1 G4 XE so I thought that I should mention it here in case anyone's interested. Information are available here:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34218&forum=33
Just send me a PM.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/SteveV22FE/Commodore%20Amiga/A500_Trumpcard.jpg)
Here was my setup! I think this was closer to 1992. I had an A500 with an IVS Trumpcard with a 20MB hard drive and an IVS MetaFour card with 4MB of RAM. I thought I ruled the world.
The local computer club was an "every platform" club. I recall taking this to a meeting and just getting a barrage of questions. The two questions I remember best were, "How much RAM do you have?" I replied proudly, "5 MEGABYTES!" and the other was "How big is your Hard Drive? I also proudly replied "20 MEGABYTES!. I remember one guy saying, "You'll never fill that up!"
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Amiga 500 w/512K expansion and 1084s monitor.
What I might have had also (not sure when I got them actually) was a HAM-E graphics board and a Dataflyer with (I think) a 50M hard drive... (And a digiview gold and electronic color splitter)
And...er.. a lot of floppies..
desiv
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I bet you had lots of friends too!
Nah. Always qualified the dumbass chimps, but always had a few real friends (literally) at all times I guess! lol
And the last one (C64 breadbox) from '86 for "good luck". :lol:
Used to watch 'Son of Svengoolie' late nights on that 13" Sears TV!
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20 years ago.
What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?
I had an amiga 3000 with 16MB ram,A3640 540MB scsi hd,external scsi case and a cd burner,and 6 disc cd changer.
monitor was a 17" sony,but i cant recall what model :)
Sold it soon after to move up to a A4000 w/warpengine and 128MB ram.now that was good times.by 95' the 4000 had a Picasso IV and other goodies and life was sweet with 24bit..
Oh,still had a 128D then,and still own it today,i was always into c64/128 even when i got a A2000 is late 87'
Mech
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Nah. Always qualified the dumbass chimps, but always had a few real friends (literally) at all times I guess! lol
And the last one (C64 breadbox) from '86 for "good luck". :lol:
Used to watch 'Son of Svengoolie' late nights on that 13" Sears TV!
In picture 4...are those magnepans?! :eek:
Oh, and in 1991, all I had was the time I spent on my friends A500. No pride of ownership for me :D. Although, to be fair, those were probably the best computer experiences I ever had.
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In picture 4...are those magnepans?! :eek:
Yep, MGIIC's. Not bad for a 20yo, eh?
<--------is not a liberal democrud who believes things should ought to be handed to him. Fundamentals are fun folks! :lol: (translation: had to work my ass off in order to afford such nice things. Kids that age today have absolutely no clue of that concept)
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Yep, MGIIC's. Not bad for a 20yo, eh?
<--------is not a liberal democrud who believes things should ought to be handed to him.
LUCKY!!!
They just made a new set of baby maggies I would really like to get my hands on. Of course, I'd need something nice to drive them. like a nice mcIntosh tube amp...
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LUCKY!!!
HAHA! "Luck" has never been a part of my life. Quite the opposite actually.
Here's a pic of several Maggies (SMG's and IIC's) when I still lived at home and was only 18! :lol:
...and a "bonus" pic of me demonstrating Pinball Construction Set to my cousin, before my brother and I switched bedrooms in '86:
(60's Arvin portable tube AM radio, Yamaha CD Player, Technics receiver, SR2000 13" TV, C64 and 1541)
Apologies for being a topic de-railer. :(
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In 1991,
-A1000 512KB (putting away). Amiga 1080 Monitor
-A500 1mb - External Floppy Disk, External Amiga Modem 1200bps - C=1084 Monitor
-C=128 - Epix FastLoad - 1541/1571 - C=1670 1200bps Modem - C= MPS1000 Printer - C= 1802 Monitor
-PC/XT 8088 12mhz Video Hercules (a gift from my dad) he said thats Computers (The Commodore and Amiga) its just a Toys, not a real computers ( many people thinked that in that time!)
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I had an amiga 3000 with 16MB ram,A3640 540MB scsi hd,external scsi case and a cd burner,and 6 disc cd changer.
monitor was a 17" sony,but i cant recall what model :)
Are you sure this was your setup in 1991? I find that slightly hard to believe. I bought a 486DX2/66 with 8 MB ram and a 245 MB IDE drive in 1993 and this was an incredible amount back then. The computer itself was also hideously expensive, mind you (I had a lót of money to burn, back then).
This makes claiming to own an Amiga 3000 with 16 MB ram and a 540 MB scsi(!) drive in 1991, slightly unrealistic, especially as owning a cd-burner in 1991 would be impossible: CDRW came on the market in 1997. And a cd-changer in 1991? Nah. I bought a double speed CD-ROM drive in 1993, maybe 1994 for EUR 340(!).
Anyway, my Amiga-setup in 1991:
- the omnipresent A500, ofcourse. Rev 5 motherboard, KS 1.2;
- an A1084 monitor (no 'S');
- a KCS Power PC Board;
- a MacroSystem Evolution SCSI-controller (bootable with KS1.2);
- an external SCSI-case with a Quantum 80 MB SCSI harddrive;
- an external 3.5" A1010 disk drive;
- a Star LC24-10 dot-matrix printer;
- a Tornado 2400 modem;
- an external 2 MB fastram expansion (I forgot which one);
- several joysticks.
Good setup back then. It remained like this until being replaced by a 486 in 1993.
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Now, stevee617's setup rocks!
I can't find the pic now, but my A500 sat a top a computer desk such as this. Had a 24-pin Panasonic dot matrix printer hooked to it, external expansion RAM, 1680 modem, but no HD back in '91. :(
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Sadly, I had no Amiga in 1991. I purchased my first Amiga, an A500, in 1992.
In 1991 my rig consisted of a JiffyDOS'd C128 with 64k VDP RAM, a 1581, and two 1571s. It had a 1764 REU I expanded to 256kb (or 512kb, I can't remember which at the moment,) and an Emerson 2400bps external modem using a TTL-to-RS232 converter I built from a magazine schematic using a chopped up IEEE cable.
Sadly, I don't have a pic of this. I do, however, have a pic of my meager start-up 64C and an Enhancer 2000. I also had the WarpDrive fast-loader cartridge. This pic also captures the last gasp of my involvement with the TI-99/4A and a PEB I had borrowed from a guy in town, which I used to convert some of my old games to work on disk instead of tape, and my transition from learning TMS-9900 assembly to hacking away 6502 with a vengeance.
And I'm not sure where that phone is, now, but I would love to find it.
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I had my nifty A2000 (second Amiga system by that point) with (I think) 8 megs of RAM and gigantic 45 MB hard drive on a Supra controller.
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In '91 I had a life, in '92 I had a 600, included a KS 1.3/2.04 ROM sharer. Then came the 1200, then the A4000D, the rest is history.
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A500, 0.5 MB Cortex addon, 8833 -II monitor, 9-pin Amstrad printer. The first expansion to get was an external floppy which got rid of irritating constant floppy switching.
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A500, kS 1.3, 2,5 MB RAM, 1084S Monitor, external floppy, MIDI interface, audio sampler, Seikosha printer, Anderson & Jacobson 300 bps acoustic coupler
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Quite a simple set up. An A500 with a 512k trapdoor extension, and a cumana external drive, Plugged in via SCART to a 14 inch portable telly - running in highres laced for some software (my poor eyes!).
I also owned a hand scanner and a second hand HP inkjet.
By 1991 I had moved into being a proper computer user, as well as a gamer. I used My A500 for DPaint Imagine etc.
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A3000 was my first Amiga, a lowly 16mhz model. My fave Miggy I ever owned. Had an A4000 that I later put a gfx card and '060 in, and a '030 A2000 with a couple GVP IO Extender cards in it to run my BBS. Sadly got rid of them all when Windows 95 took off and when C= flatlined.
Have a SAM 440ep, WinUAE rig and a A1200 that's literally working as a doorstop atm :/ SAM is the daily driver and also runs my BBS.
Miss all of them a great deal, they had so much "personality" that is absolutely impossible to find in the modern age of commodity dime a dozen computers.
Was a real different time back then. If you owned a computer, you simply HAD to know what you were doing or you wouldn't have much fun with them. Nowadays the computer hobby ideal is pretty much gone the way of the dodo, computers are just appliances :(
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An A500 w/512k expansion, 1084s monitor, external floppy drive, a dot matrix printer (don't remember the model), and a modem. Used to dial into my university's network and download Amiga stuff from the internet before the WWW became a reality.
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A500 +512kb (fatter agnus/all chip mod), action replay, some extra floppy drives and a 1084s.
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Now, stevee617's setup rocks!
I can't find the pic now, but my A500 sat a top a computer desk such as this. Had a 24-pin Panasonic dot matrix printer hooked to it, external expansion RAM, 1680 modem, but no HD back in '91. :(
Thanks! I was really proud of that system. Check out the 2400bps modem!
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My machine was an Amiga 500 with some C= monitor I can't recall. I don't think it was the 1960 yet. It may have been 1701. It had an extra 512K of RAM, the brand new C= inkjet printer (where the print was smeared all the time due to design), an Amitech sound sampler and an external floppy drive.
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An Amiga 1000, with 1081 monitor and Cortex 4mb RAM expansion. the 1081 died a couple of years later as a result I suspect of multiple trips to and from student accommodation. The cortex ram expansion died for no apparent reason sometime around 1992. in late 1992 the A1000 was replaced by an A1200, and the dead 1081 replaced by a 14" Sony telly, both of which are still going strong. The A1000 is in my loft, but afaik should still work:-)
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In 1991 I was still using my 1000... with a Phoenix Toolbox holding a Commodore 2058 Ram card... (half filled). No HD, but I used the RAD to hold workbench and some common tools for a quick reboot after installing a Kwikstart ROM switcher. A 70's vintage stereo reciever for sound, and a 1080 monitor..
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/SteveV22FE/Commodore%20Amiga/A500_Trumpcard.jpg)
Here was my setup! I think this was closer to 1992. I had an A500 with an IVS Trumpcard with a 20MB hard drive and an IVS MetaFour card with 4MB of RAM. I thought I ruled the world.
The local computer club was an "every platform" club. I recall taking this to a meeting and just getting a barrage of questions. The two questions I remember best were, "How much RAM do you have?" I replied proudly, "5 MEGABYTES!" and the other was "How big is your Hard Drive? I also proudly replied "20 MEGABYTES!. I remember one guy saying, "You'll never fill that up!"
That desk is so neat it is scary!
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The new Amiga 500+ (Cartoon classics pack) :)
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Amiga 500 with 1084 monitor. Of course, I wanted a hard drive, but I couldn't afford one at the time -- and busy with college, my Amiga was getting less use anyway.
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Oh, you can mention other machines too :)
sadly i didn't own my own computer until the following year when the 1200 came out.
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Thanks! I was really proud of that system. Check out the 2400bps modem!
Nice! I remember the importance of having a clock nearby too. The Online experience was so damned expensive then!
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That desk is so neat it is scary!
It had to be neat...besides a car, it was the only thing I owned!
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Nice! I remember the importance of having a clock nearby too. The Online experience was so damned expensive then!
Especially if you called overseas to get the "good stuff"!
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Oh, you can mention other machines too :)
sadly i didn't own my own computer until the following year when the 1200 came out.
Same with me, but it was '93 - a going off to college present. I had an epson 24 pin color printer, an A1200 with 40MB hard drive, and some sony multiscan monitor. That was the first comp I ever owned - up until that point I borrowed heavily :D
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Same with me, but it was '93 - a going off to college present. I had an epson 24 pin color printer, an A1200 with 40MB hard drive, and some sony multiscan monitor. That was the first comp I ever owned - up until that point I borrowed heavily :D
Mine was a 1200 with a 1084 monitor (i think), external floppy and a canon bubblejet printer that worked really well.
The mandatory joysticks as well of course.
Kept that girl until 97 or 98.
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Nice! I remember the importance of having a clock nearby too. The Online experience was so damned expensive then!
OMG, I learned my lesson there!!!!!!! :(
I had a Compuserve account and would hang out in the Amiga forums sparingly.. For a bit..
Then I lost the clock or something.. I remember it this way...
I was in a chat session where Black Belt was talking about their new Hardware, HAM-E...
They were going to give one away to a "lucky" member...
Well, I WAS that lucky member!! :):):):):)
Yeay! That was an over $300 piece of hardware I would NEVER have bought!!
SWEET!!!!
Then, next month I got my CServe bill and did the math and realized I had "overspent" for the last few months by... yep, almost $400!!!!
Aarrgghh!!!
Loved the HAM-E, cancelled Compuserve.. Worked LOTS of extra hours....
:roflmao:
desiv
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In 1991, I had:
A1000 (my original one I got in 1986): 512 KB Internal RAM, 2 MB Alegra External RAM, A1010 External 3.5 Floppy Drive, External 5.25 Floppy Drive, A1080 Color Monitor, Epson EX800 Color Dot Matrix Printer, 1200 Baud Modem. Amiga DOS 1.3
A2000 (which I got through a Commodore upgrade program which allowed me to keep my A1000 in 1989): 1 MB Internal RAM (which I upgraded to a full 1 MB Chip with Fat Agnus), 2 Internal Floppy Drives, GVP SCSI Controller, 40 MB Seagate SCSI Hard Drive, Micron 2 MB RAM Board, AST TurboLaser Postscript Printer, AMAX Mac Emulator, Supra 2400 Baud Modem, Digi-View Digitizer, ECE MIDI Box, Casio CZ101 Synthesizer, Sony CDP1303 MultiSync Monitor, A2320 Flicker Fixer, Several Joysticks (Gravis and others). A2630 Accelerator with 4 MB RAM. ROM Switcher (1.3 and 2.0).
I had my Amigas hooked up to my home stereo system and used a Radio Shack mixer to integrate the Casio CZ101 and my Electric Guitar. Used Deluxe Music a lot. Also, Instant Music.
I also got into Desktop Publishing and was Editor of The Blitter Newsletter for PAUG (Philadelphia Amiga Users Group). I started out using ProPage, but eventually went to PageSteam.
Used ProWrite 3.x as my main Word Processor, Analyze! as my main Spreadsheet and Softwood File II as my Database program.
For graphics, I used DeluxePaint, DeluxeVideo, and DigiView (I also had the Panasonic B/W security camera and Stand).
Had a subscription to AmigaWorld and Amazing Computing magazines. Went to the World of Commodore shows twice in the late 80's, one in King of Prussia, PA and the other in Tyson's, VA (DC area). Was on Genie (remember that).
It's amazing how much was available for the Amiga back then, Software (both Games, Creativity and Productivity) and Hardware. Good thing I worked a lot of overtime on my first job at GM (General Motors or as some said Generous Motors).
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Are you sure this was your setup in 1991? I find that slightly hard to believe. I bought a 486DX2/66 with 8 MB ram and a 245 MB IDE drive in 1993 and this was an incredible amount back then. The computer itself was also hideously expensive, mind you (I had a lót of money to burn, back then).
This makes claiming to own an Amiga 3000 with 16 MB ram and a 540 MB scsi(!) drive in 1991, slightly unrealistic, especially as owning a cd-burner in 1991 would be impossible: CDRW came on the market in 1997. And a cd-changer in 1991? Nah. I bought a double speed CD-ROM drive in 1993, maybe 1994 for EUR 340(!).
Anyway, my Amiga-setup in 1991:
- the omnipresent A500, ofcourse. Rev 5 motherboard, KS 1.2;
- an A1084 monitor (no 'S');
- a KCS Power PC Board;
- a MacroSystem Evolution SCSI-controller (bootable with KS1.2);
- an external SCSI-case with a Quantum 80 MB SCSI harddrive;
- a Star LC24-10 dot-matrix printer;
- a Tornado 2400 modem;
- an external 2 MB fastram expansion (I forgot which one);
- several joysticks.
Good setup back then. It remained like this until being replaced by a 486 in 1993.
Yes,i' m sure i had a 3000 then,and i had a cd burner by late 91-the CDR standard was introduced in 88'-notice i said cd burner(cdr and not cdrw),the cdrom in 83' ,cd changers early 90's-Mine was used on some SUN server i think before i got it.they had started upgrading to 18disc+ units if memory serves . Previous to this i had the A2000 with a 1x cdrom in late 90..bought it new and it cost me a freaking fortune.this stuff was available in the usa pretty early. just had to sell a arm,leg and kidney to afford it- i think i paid $540 for the 540MB scsi quantum hd-i remember remarking it being a buck a meg.The 3000 would burn a good disc every time while multitasking .Most 486's could produce coasters if you touched the mouse at the time.Even back then if you knew where to look finding surplus scsi stuff was not hard,and alot cheaper.The 3k then felt top of the line with the 3640 in it and 16MB Static column ram and it seemed there was nothing it couldn't do well(yes,contrary to what misinformation you read on the net SCZIPS work with the 3640 ).Everything seemed to happen 2 years ahead of europe i noticed. I picked up most all my amiga's used from people upgrading,there was always a deal to be had and at a fraction of what new ones cost. I also repaired alot of stuff and upgraded cheaply that way.It all started with the 1541 i bought from a kid in 83 for $75 with a dead chip in it-6522 i think,i fixed it for $15 and had a floppy for the c64 for under $100,when they cost a fortune then.
I knew alot of people in industry then and scsi surplus was easy to get and every so often a bargain.Don't blame me if you were behind the times or if scsi wasn't common in europe as here.You can be a typical consumer who looks at and pays retail and assumes whats on the shelf is all that is available or you can be a insider and dig for good deals.;)
Mech
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@rdolores - Wow! Nice setups!!!!
and..
... AMAX Mac Emulator,
Oh, I wanted one of those SO BADLY!!!!
Had the pirate version, but of course, no Mac floppy option there..
(Actually, I think I read that there was a schematic to do that, but I never knew about that at the time).
I do now have an A-Max.. Better late than never.. :roflmao:
desiv
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Amiga? 1991? I only got my c64 in 1991 lol.
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A500, KS1.3, 512k mem expansion, external floppy drive, Star color dot matrix printer, Philips 15" SCART-TV... and maybe Action Replay mkII or at least quite soon after 1991 :) I couldn't afford for HD, so Action Replay was the closest thing which helped the usage with it's internal dos commands etc.
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That desk is so neat it is scary!
no kidding!,mine has never been half that clean,always solder balls and wire clippings,pc boards,and piles of tools!
Mech
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Christmas day, 1991?
It looked like a "Cartoon Classics" box, containing a spanking new Amiga A500+! I loved my little ZX Spectrum, but this thing just blew it out of the water! Over the next year or so, it gained 2MB ChipRAM, an external DF1 and a SCART lead to replace the shonky A520 modulator. I felt like I owned the Earth with that rig!
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I was using an A500 with the top half of the case missing as the original floppy drive had stopped recognising the insertion/removal of disks so I had a drive from a PC installed that didn't fit too well. At this point I was moving to the PC due to work so the Amiga was getting less use.
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1991... oh so very very long ago. (first post here).
I had bought my first Amiga in 1990, it was an A1000 which I paid $500 from C= Refurbish program through a friend. It came with the 512k installed. I had the option to go with the A500, but I was done with keyboard-computers with my C=128 and had been using PC-DOS systems in tech school. My A1000 was plugged into my TV since my 1902 monitor was used as my monitor for my C=128 with all my data and modem, etc. Very quickly, my C=128 became #2 then put into the closet.
By the time 1991 came around... my Amiga1000 has pass from a Micobiotics 2MB RAM expander. to a SCSI-RAM expander box (forgot the name - ugly goldish looking box) which barely held a 3.5" 20mb HD.... oh that was sooo good after 1+ year of just floppies.
Amiga 1000 (Still have it)
Amiga 1010 drive (Still have it)
Generic 3.5" drive
Xtra?? SCSI & 2MB box with 20mb HD
68010-14mhz CPU upgrade card (plugged into CPU socket with switch to ORG 68000)
Flicker-Fixer (This meant VGA monitor, rock solid display in 640x480)
VGA monitor, generic 13". (tiny compared to my 24" today)
I soft-booted into 2.0ROMs for productivty. 1.3 for games. This was my setup until my Amiga 3000 and I sold all the add-ons to help pay for it, but couldn't part with my 1000.
Today: My 1000 is IN its original Amiga Box, in a closet 15 feet away. The C=1920 monitor is used as a video monitor for my VHS conversion setup. I wish my A3000 was in better condition... faulty daughter expansion board overheats, C= couldn't figure this out after 2 mobo swaps under warranty before they died.
I used both Pagestream and Mac emulation for desktop publishing back then.
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My 1st computer was an ADAM from COLICO VISION. Then got a C64 then A2000 with 1meg of RAM with an IBM Bridgeboard. Sold it And bough a A4000D/030 and still have it.
I really miss The Wolrd of Commodore. I attended every year.
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I didn't get my Amiga till about 1993 or 94. But here it is cira 1996 or so while it was running my CNet BBS. Used a DataFlyer 500 and the Ram Expansion for it, the Bodega Bay, an A1010 and a Zoom 14.4Kbps v.32bis modem, with an external SCSI drive bay witha CD Rom. Also seen is my Azden PCS-4000 2 meter Amateur Radio, as I also used this machine to do packet. You'll also see a KPC-3 TNC on top of it all.
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20 years ago.
What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?
Amiga 500 with 1MB chip ram and TV-modulator. It was really cool back then when Amigas used to have only 512kB chip + 512k pseudo-fast.
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I got my first Amiga in late '91 if memory serves me correctly. it was then just released a500+ model. I Was so excited. My main comp for years prior to this was the C64.
In mid '91 i made the jump from C64 to the STe. For me it was a huge mistake, but it was something like £100 cheaper and i was quite young and couldnt stretch to the Amiga asking price.
I had learned of the Amiga threw various c64 mags but when i actualy seen it for the first time at a friends house i was totally blown away. Really cool looking games with brilliant graphics, super smooth scrolling and totally unreal sound via his amp.
I then seen a few scene demos (Phenomena Enigma) and that was me Sold. i had to have this. STe didnt last more than a few months in my house.
opps strayed abit of topic, but yeah my Amiga in '91 was the a500+ with an action replay card and perhaps a small ram expansion and just a normal portable TV for the picture. served me very well until '93 and then A1200 time.
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We had an A500 with the 1MB expansion, extra floppy drive, and the older, C64-era 1084. Possibly a 1.3/2.04 Kickstart switcher. I remember we were waiting for the GVP A530 to arrive, but I can't remember if that's because it was backordered or hadn't been released yet.
I was a Lemming for Halloween that year :)
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In 1991 I didn't have an amiga, or a computer at all, for that matter. Money and time was instead used on school, archery and partying :)
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I had an amiga 500 with hd/memory sidecar and a 1084 monitor. My pc at that time (a 386) was used to run a bbs so the amiga 500 was my main computer for most things.
I wanted to upgrade to an amiga 2000 and run my bbs on that with cnet and have enough proc/ram left over to do my own stuff but never did. It was crazy expensive to get enough hardware to do that at that time.
My two computer setup worked nice for me at that time. The amiga for games, dialing out to other systems and anything I needed to do and the pc to run my bbs.
Steven
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Especially if you called overseas to get the "good stuff"!
you guys paid for long distance.. erm um,uh nevermind, i didnt say that ;>
:sealed:
mech
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http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3563
Description of my 1000 (Frankenthousand) is on the picture page.
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In 1991 I didn't have an amiga, or a computer at all, for that matter. Money and time was instead used on school, archery and partying :)
Then WHY are you here? :roflmao:
(NO SOUP FOR YOU!)
I didn't get my Amiga till about 1993 or 94. But here it is cira 1996 or so while it was running my CNet BBS. Used a DataFlyer 500 and the Ram Expansion for it, the Bodega Bay.~
Man, I remember the Bodega Bay, that thing was HUGE! Even today, with the power of PC's - the IDEA of running 4-6 slots and drives off a single expansion slot - which was really designed for much less, and yet - it WORKED!
Meanwhile 20 years later since my 91' A1000 (above), today what I have is 986mhz faster with 16GB more data storage, 16million more colors and higher resolution, with communications that is 1000x faster and wireless and can tell me where I am anywhere in the world... yet it fits in my pocket and is just... a PHONE.
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I only had a500 (KS1.3) at that time. and a bunch of diskettes. not sure when I expanded RAM with 512Kb.
oh, the fun times!
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I was all 8-bit in 1991 (C64, Apple IIe.)
I'd never even seen an Amiga in person until 2007!
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In 1991 I had a C-64, C-128D, Amiga A1000, Amiga A500, and an A2000.
The A1000 had a hard drive and memory expansion, the A500 had a GVP hard drive/RAM expansion (8Mb), internal FF/SD and an '030 CPU. The A2000 was new, so in '91 it didn't have much in it (yet).
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Lets see in 1991 I had my A3000 for a couple months. Prior to that it was an A1000 I got when it was first released that I had hacked up to do way more then ever intended, but it worked a lot better then my A300 for a time. I ended up selling the A1000 later that year before leaving for the Navy.
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That would be around the time of my first (used) Amiga. It was most certainly an A500, I think an Rev5 board, thought it may have been the source of my Rev4 board. It came with an Trumpcard & Meta4, but no HDD, and I think only 1M of ram on the Meta4.
Eventually I ended up with an ICD AdDE with the cable running to the trumpcard case, as I had access to a cheap 40mb IDE drive, and the AdIDE was much closer to my high
school spending budget than the SCSI HDD.
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Up to late 91, I was using an expanded C=64 when picked up my first (used) Amiga.
A2000, SupraRam/4mg, SupraSCSI/120mg HD with a bunch of video software and a NewTek DigiView.
Before I got it home, spent more money at the biggest Amiga store in the area at the time. Added 4mg ram, C= A2286 Bridgeboard, 250 meg HD. Shortly after that I picked up another A2000 with an '030 and a VideoToaster.
The addiction continued... pic (http://rcfreas.com/files/C64.jpg) of the C=64 next to the current Amiga system. The system off to the left is an A3000D. see sig.
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Had (and still have) an A500 with a 512kB expansion, a Roctek external floppydrive and an Action Replay III.
Really miss those days.
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Around -92 i got my Amiga 500, i few moths later i got a memory expansion for it. unfortunately i sold this computer -95 and was away from the Amiga world until 2005, but now im back and have a lot of nice Amiga gears.
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In 91,
Had purchased my A2000 and a 2mb ram expansion. Was playing around with 3d modeling.
Still remember those 1night per frame days. also had a 1080 monitor
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In 1991, given I was going through a divorce, was a lowly E-5 in the U. S. Navy, my Amiga looked remarkably like a $25 Osborne while I was dreaming of an A500!
Finally got the A500 in '96 or there about.
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Interesting to see that a lot of people got in pretty late.
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A500, 512/512, external drive, 14" Philips TV with RGB SCART, KS2.04/1.3 using a utilities unlimited kick switcher, AR3. I had various modems on loan at various times, then finally got a 14.4k modem on permaloan from my dad's work around 1993-1994.. I forget. :-)
This setup served as my only computer until xmas 1995. I really wanted a HD for it, but could never afford it, as I was a bit too young to be working proper summer jobs back then.
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A500 w/512kb extension, then got A 2000B with a huge 30Mb harddrive, 2Mb RAM and a 8088 bridge board.
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In 1991 my "Amiga" looked & worked suspiciously like a C64 complete with Commodore Datasette which only ever seemed to load anything on the second or third attempt. I finally managed to buy a 2nd hand disk drive around 1993. It was about a week after I got this that I went to a friends house & saw his new Amiga 1200. After that I spent most of my time "borrowing" the A1200 but never actually owned an Amiga until many, many years later.
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A500 Plus, Cartoon Classics Pack with Phillips CM8833 monitor, Cumana CAX354 external drive.The next year I added an A570 CDTV drive.
http://wiki.classicamiga.com/images/1/1f/A500p_cartoon_pack.jpg
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Finally remembered the HD interface I had on my A1000 in 1991.
A1000 Xetec FastTrack SCSI, it looked very much like this:
(http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/a_scuzz_may22/a_scuzz_may29_01.jpg)
This is an A500 version, The A1000 version looks eactly the same but the Zorro slot is on the other side and it had a stand since the A1000's zorro wasn't at desk level.
Quick Recap: A1000 with A1000 Xetec FastTrack SCSI with 2mb installed and a used 20mb Quantum HD. An ICD Flicker Fixer and ICD 68010 @ 14mhz socket plug ins (I've actually fallen asleep awaiting for a screen refresh on PageStream) - Running ADOS 2.0 (softroms)... but would run ADOS 3.0 when the A1200/4000 hit the market. It ran faster and used less chip ram than ADOS 2.x. I had 2 external floppy drives and a 13" Packard Bell monitor.
So, I was running AmigaOS 3 before I got my A3000, which I reformatted to AmigaOS 3.0 on its first day. I have both of the Amigas, both work.
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In 1991?
At X-Mas 1991 i got my first Amiga. A Amiga 500, what else. In the next years i got some expansions, like 512kb Ram expansion, second Floppy (ext.) an a AT-500 Expansion with a 233 MB Harddrive. This was my Computer until 1996.
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Like today (2 MB Golem Box not on photo) ;)
(http://www.alice-dsl.net/lgoerke/amiga.jpg) (http://www.alice-dsl.net/lgoerke/)
Lutz
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My Amiga setup in 1991/1992 was the following:
Amiga 500 computer, Kick 1.3 w/Minimegs 512k A501 clone
Amiga 1080 RGB Color monitor
California Access CA-880 external 3.5" disk drive
In 1992 I got a Micro R&D Sling Shot unit with GVP HC+8 with 2MB and 52MB HD! I was STOKED!!!
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Back in 1991 I had just the one Amiga:
A1500 with a 68000
ECS Chipset
1MB Chip
1MB Fast
0.5MB Zorro RAM (stripped from my broken B2000)
GVP Hard Card with 2MB RAM and a 120MB SCSI hard drive
2 floppies
1081 Monitor and a dot-matrix printer.
I think I had also installed a keyboard ROM switcher at that point with 1.3 and 2.0 ROMs.
I'm pretty sure my SDFF and VGA monitor were added in 1992 just before I bought an A1200.
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I'm logged in with Iceweasel for the first time. It's kinda wierd!
A500, 512K clock, extra floppy, 1084S, Epson 24 pin, and a 2400 modem. Damned cool machine, still have it. There were many Amiga files on local BBSes then. There was an Amiga section on GEnie then, too.
I think it was in '92 when the A570 (All the Fred Fish disks fit on one CD!) first appeared along with WB2.1.
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in 1991 i was 2 years old and i didnt have an amiga hehe
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in 1991 i was 2 years old and i didnt have an amiga hehe
I'm sorry your parents didn't love you. :afro:
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I got my first Amiga in 1992 when i was 12.
A500Plus Cartoon Classics pack + Commodore 1084S. No accessories other than what came in the box and 2 joysticks.
I regretfully sold it around 1996. In 1997 I ended up getting a second hand A500 which I kept and still have today, though its motherboard died earlier this year.
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In 1991 I had A2000C, 20MB HDD, 3MB RAM, XT-Bridgeboard, 2 internal FDD 3.5", one internal 5.25", one external 5.25", NecMultisync3D, Matrix printer, etc...
I never really used the bridgeboard, I could do everything + more on the AOS side. I sold the A2000 around 1994, without monitor, for 5000FIM (833eur), for video production needs.
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A500 with RAM expansion and RTC. An external 3.5" and an external 5.25" floppy drives, C= 1081 monitor, Citizen B&W dot matrix printer.
The 5.25" disks were cheeper + it reminded me of my C= 1541-II drive.
Still have all of it.
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In 1991, I had an Amiga 2000 with dual floppies, a DKB (?) ROM switcher with 1.3 and 2.04 ROMs, the Commodore 1200 baud modem, and a DigiView setup. I added a 2091 SCSI controller with 2 MB of RAM and a 52 MB hard drive the following year.
I pulled this same Amiga out of my garage last year and refurbished it with a new board (need to repair battery damage on the old board), a Microway flickerfixer and a GVP G-Force 68030 accelerator with 8 MB of RAM.
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Apologies in advance for being long winded, but ... first post and all...
in late 1991, I got my first used A500 (1.2/1.3) for $30, which I thought was an amazing deal. It was said to have a broken floppy, but after I hit it with some compressed air, it just worked! Basically visited BBSs, downloaded demos, played a lot of games with it. Used a data-over-voice modem to achieve 9600baud somehow. I hadn't an RGB monitor yet, so I was using A520 composite. Soon after I purchased a used 1000 which came with RGB monitor, and I believe I paid around $200 for both.
then in early 1993: purchased a vanilla A1200 w/ 40 mb harddisk, from one of the last standing dealers in my area, which set me back maybe $699 or so?
Then I purchased an Microbotics 030 card w/16M + RTC.
Somehow got an A2000 around 1994 for $125. Bought an surplus stock Bridgeboard 286 kit and somehow figured out how to use Janus to boot WB from a bootfloppy using the harddisk attached to the bridgeboard. Eventually that got fitted with extra ram, 68010(!) and supra drive controller. Ultimately it was 2mb ECS system w/ cd-rom.
Then I purchased an Apollo 040 for the 1200, w/ 64m ram. (1996?)
1998-99 towerized the A1200 with Micronik ZII backplane and added Blizzard 060/240mhzPPC + PicIV + Xsurf + Ioblix.
then I sold it all in pieces a few years ago. (The blizzard itself went for $700) and kept an A2000/030 + video toaster.
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I got my first Amiga in 1992 when i was 12.
A500Plus Cartoon Classics pack + Commodore 1084S. No accessories other than what came in the box and 2 joysticks.
I regretfully sold it around 1996. In 1997 I ended up getting a second hand A500 which I kept and still have today, though its motherboard died earlier this year.
Amazing, close to my story! Indeed at age of 12 I had A500Plus and Philips 14" TV for greatest birthday present ever! Boy I hated that KS2.04, it messed up lots of good 'ol games (took me years to find out there was such thing as relokick) ! And here I was, happy lil' fella..1992 --->
http://i8.aijaa.com/b/00102/11489564.jpg
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Brandnew! A3000, 6 MB RAM, 100 + 300 MB HDDs, Mitsubishi EUM 1491 - still sitting on my desk (rarely powered up though)
@mechy
CD burners weren't out (affordable) yet in '91... I remember trying to sell a Philips late in 1991 for ~$16k ;)
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Here's my setup, taken in late 1992 actually. Close enough?
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2178/2371516217_29642842d5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2371516217/)
two amigas from my past (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2371516217/) by blakespot (http://www.flickr.com/people/blakespot/), on Flickr
bp
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20 years ago.
What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?
In 1991 I had a Camouflage (painted it myself) Amiga 500 with a 50 Mhz 68030, 32MB of RAM, Sony 25XBR RGB Monitor/TV, Red/Black Wico Joysticks and a external SCSI 140MB Harddisk.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G1sGzpxhL._SY500_.jpg
http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss90/jwcbet/25xbr.jpg
http://atariace.com/images/atariace.com/atari/images/joysticks/wico_command_control.jpg
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All of my photos from that time are gone. But in 1991 I had an A500 with a mega midget, and GVP A500+. I also had an A2000 with an 030 with all sorts of goodies. I had long since sold the A1000 for the "newer" hardware.
In 1991, the A1200 was right around the corner, and I was all over one of them as soon as they were released.
This was a good period for the Amiga, not that Commodore was pushing much - IIRC CBM was busy pushing AmigaVision about then.....
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'91 onwards I didn't own an Amiga, was in the high speed world of 486's and the like :-)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/SteveV22FE/Commodore%20Amiga/A500_Trumpcard.jpg)
Is it just me.... But just by looking at this picture makes me MISS computing with my Amiga...
Disk drive clicking, modem making the crazy sounds dialing into a BBS, slight high pitched noise coming from the monitor, Printer extra loud when it prints, and all the endless disk access sounds...... Yep, good thing Amiga was there growing up....
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I had a 500 with an external floppy, 1084s, modem and 1000's of pirate disks. what a time :D
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Amiga 500 with 512 kB + Clock expansion (total 1 MB), 1084s Monitor, external 3.5" floppy drive, external 5.25" floppy drive (much cheeper disks at the time), a track-ball of some kind (much better for graphics), and some QuickShot and QuickJoy joysticks.
I remember salivating at the A3000 that year, I can't remember the last time I desired a computer that much. In '92 I was going to spend big (big for me) on expanding my A500, GVP+ 20 MB HD w/ 8 MB RAM, 2.04 ROMs, a printer, maybe an accelerator. Then the sales guy at my local Commodore reseller tells me to hold off for the A1200. Best decision I ever made.
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Hm... 1991...
That would be an A500 (rev 5, KS1.2), A1010 diskdrive, KCS Power PC Board, MacroSystem Evolution SCSI controller with 80 MB Quantum ProDrive, a 2 MB external ram expansion, Tornado 2400 modem, a Star LC24-10 printer, a Multivision 500 flicker fixer and a 14" multisync monitor (forgot which type).
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/SteveV22FE/Commodore%20Amiga/A500_Trumpcard.jpg)
Here was my setup! I think this was closer to 1992. I had an A500 with an IVS Trumpcard with a 20MB hard drive and an IVS MetaFour card with 4MB of RAM. I thought I ruled the world.
The local computer club was an "every platform" club. I recall taking this to a meeting and just getting a barrage of questions. The two questions I remember best were, "How much RAM do you have?" I replied proudly, "5 MEGABYTES!" and the other was "How big is your Hard Drive? I also proudly replied "20 MEGABYTES!. I remember one guy saying, "You'll never fill that up!"
Holy crap I owned that same desk! In fact, my setup was almost identical to yours. About the only difference was I didn't have a hard drive on my A500.
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I had A2000, 1MB Chip, 2MB fast, bridgeboard (never used that really), 40MB HDD, two 3.5" FDD, one 5.25" drive, NecMultisync3D, VCR, TV, etc... Did some videoeffects (editing), animation, played with 3D rendering, music, midi, graphics, scripting, games (&DIY HD installations of games)...
(it was silly how some older guys who owned x86 came just to see the weir system with more than 640kB continuous RAM)
Too bad that I never made backup of the HDD. I never had any reliability issues. Untill in 1992 we had electricity cut while I was defragmenting the HDD. Lost everything. Never had that great setup ever since. Sold the A2000 in y1994 and got a A4000.
'91 onwards I didn't own an Amiga, was in the high speed world of 486's and the like :-)
Strange... A590 HDD could transfer 2,5MB/sec in y1990 or so, stock 486 did not manage that in 1993, etc, etc...
But perhaps you were just joking.
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Threads like these make me wonder how our eyes have survived the computing era of tubes flashing hard, tanning our faces for hours :-)
I like so much these old shots, with all the stuff on desks and walls.
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Fun thread
In 1991 I had an A500 w/1mb ram, ext floppy, 1084s monitor and tons of games. Did some bbs stuff and a little online gaming (Medievel Warriors) on my Supra Modem lulz.. ah the good ole days.. The amiga user group in my area was like 200 strong and had great meetings.
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My first and only classic Amiga is an A2000HD.
I don't remember the exact dates, but I did some upgrades over the years. It started with OS 1.3, later upgraded to OS 3.1. I added some extra fast RAM, a SCSI CD-ROM drive, a second SCSI hard drive, an external floppy disk drive and a MicroWay flickerfixer card. Never added an accelerator card so it always operated as a 68000 CPU at original clock speed.
redfox
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Some time during '91 my original A2000 PSU caught fire and I replaced it with an ECS A1500. So, it would have looked like this:
A1500 with stock 68000 CPU
2 x Floppy drives (One salvaged from A2000)
128MB Hard Drive with extra 2MB RAM on SCSI card (salvaged from A2000)
0.5MB Zorro RAM card (salvaged from A2000)
A1081 monitor
Colour dot matrix printer
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and a cd burner,
In '91? My god, how much did that cost, and how much was the media? Please, tell me more!
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In '91 I was driving around an A500 with 2mb RAM (512k on-board, 512k trapdoor, 1mb in ZIP RAM in a Supra-RAM sidecar), an external AIR floppy drive and an Adspeed and I think an upgraded Denise. Although I could be wrong about that.
Oh my display was a 13" color TV :P
The next system I had after that was around '93, and it was an A1200. Before I sold it all off it had acquired a 1084S monitor, a DKB Cobra 030 card, 4mb RAM, and a 60mb HD.
In retrospect, I wish I'd learned more about Shapeshifter or whatever and run Mac OS for the continuing software base. Now, I do not care for Apple computer one whit but being able to "dual boot" and getting access to the games that drew me away from the Amiga (FPSes mostly) and a little later, web-browsers...if I'd kept my wits about me I might have held on to my Amiga a bit longer. :(
Of course I might have also wound up as a ravening mac fan and how terrible would that have been? I shudder to think.
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- 3000D 25MHz
- Latest chips Buster 11, SCSI-08, Ramsey 7, DMAC 4
- 16 megs static column zips
- 50 MHz hack for the 882
- 250 MB or so Quantum HD
- Viewsonic 15
- Hooked up to my Carver 250 AMP/PreAmp and some custom made huge speakers.
- GVP Phonepak
- External C-LTD 50 MB Hard Disk - Used for data backup.
A sweet system that is still my favorite Amiga, use it to this day...
The Quantum tech guys were great, remember chatting with them. They had an Amiga 3000 for testing... Always tried to support them for that...
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Just a simple 500 with 1 meg of ram. Upgraded to a A2000 with hard drive in 1992.
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20 years ago.
What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?
Amiga 500 with KS 1.2 512K chipram and 512K Slow ram. Used for testing those few idiot games that only worked with KS1.2 or 512k chipram.
At some point I gave it away probably in 1989 or 1990.
Amiga 500 With KS 1.3 1MB chipram. My "real" A500.
Amiga 2000 with KS 1.3, 1 MB Chipram + 8MB Chipram + a SCSI hard disk controller. I forgot the brand, I would have to look it up. This was my main ECS Amiga that I played all badly coded games on. The detached keyboard was great and the 8MB fastram allowed me to multitask my screengrabber proggies and Dpaint and stuff.
Amiga 3000 25Mhz 68030 with KS2.04 2MB 32-bit Chipram and 16MB Fastram. My main business computer used for coding and desktop publishing and gfx and music and everything. I had around 6 GB of HD storage using a Ricoh Magneto-Optical rewriteable drive. I used this computer to play Wings and a few other HD installable games that benefited from the faster cpu power and faster chipram.
Amiga 3000 25Mhz 68030 with KS2.04 2MB 32-bit chipram and 8MB fastram. It was on sale for $799.00 so I grabbed it. Great for datalinking Stunt Car Racer and other datalinkable games! A few years later I sold it. Then a couple of years ago they gave it back to me when they were throwing away all their old Amiga stuff. So now it is sitting here in a box probably leaking battery acid everywhere.
For monitors I had some 1084S monitors and a Commodore C= 1950 Multisync monitor on my A3000 for viewing 640x512 in rock solid flickerfixer mode. My A3000s all had dual-monitor setups.
Lots of rubbery Ergosticks for controllers. 4 player adapters. An HP Deskjet 500 inkjet printer.
A Sony stereo with a "Surrond Sound" button that mixes the Amigas audio correctly to fix the "wide separation" problem and makes the Amiga audio soooooooooooooo beautiful and wonderful to listen to.
A Visual Aurals Mindlight 7. The grooviest hardware ever.
Those were the good old days. :)
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Here's my setup, taken in late 1992 actually. Close enough?
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2178/2371516217_29642842d5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2371516217/)
two amigas from my past (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2371516217/) by blakespot (http://www.flickr.com/people/blakespot/), on Flickr
bp
;-) I kind of sold my first Amiga about 20 years for my then first amiga. The elder sister of my gf was offering me quite a nice sum for the A500 and since I spent more time with her little sister and lesser time with my A500 I let it go.
Not the worst decision, a few months later when unfortunately her little sister and me were a thing of the past again I had time and use for Amiga again, the A600HD was cheaply on sale.
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It looked like a SNES. I didn't get an Amiga until 1992, when the A600 came out. Then I got interested in coding and bought extra RAM, a hard drive, only to upgrade to the A1200 the year after. Still love 68k assembler!
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I had a 2000HD. Not sure if in 91 I had purchaed the used 2620 board yet for it. In it was a 286 Bridgeboard, the 2091 hard drive controller, and a 40MB (holy cow hard to remember when we dealt in Megs instead of Gigs) Quantum Pro Hard drive that booted that Amiga through WB 1.3-3.1 until I finally retired both it and the 2091 in favor of a GVP 030 accelerator with SCSI and RAM and a DAtaflyer IDE controller, I also might have had the Mimetics Framebuffer card by then, not sure. Now, that Amiga has Opalvision, 386 Bridgeboard, that GVP acceperator, Dataflyer IDE. I loved filling up a big box Amiga in the day. Every slot, every drive bay must be used.
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Having Amiga pipe-dreams back then. Had a C64c and a big pile of cassettes.
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I had an Amiga 1000, bought by my Father when they first came out. 2 MB ram expansion externally, Workbench 1.3 and loads of software such as Deluxe Video, Deluxe Paint, games games games. External floppy drive. Oh and a Coleco Adam game controller in the second joystick port for games. A couple years later I modded my Amiga with bright yellow system and main floppy lights over the stock red ones.
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Amiga 500, 1084s with extra external floppy drive...
An old stereo power amp with amiga going to aux channel and some big kickin
speakers. A 2400 baud modem and a sound sampler.
My amiga 500 was esentially my protracker music and sampling workstation.
Thousands of floppy disks filled with samples. I learned to sequence music
and create samples thanks to amiga.
I sure don't miss flipping sample disks for hours on end trying to find the perfect kickdrum sound...:laughing:
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In 1991 I just dreamed about having an Amiga. I had 2 Atari Sts with both mono and color monitors. I liked playing around with the color graphics on the ST but they were really limited and I used it in mono mode for midi sequencing. I had a few hours a week of studio time in a studio that had a lot of synthesizers and an Amiga for sequencing. I didn't like it for music but the ham graphics impressed me. 2 years later, I finally got an A2500 which came with a lot of software. It totally obsessed me for the next year.