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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Lionheart on February 19, 2014, 02:05:25 PM
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Title says it all. What was the first Amiga you ever owned?
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Title says it all. What was the first Amiga you ever used?
My first Amiga was an A1000 which I got in early 1986. I got it with the following options:
- 256 KB Front RAM expansion (for a grand total of 512 KB RAM).
- A1010 External 3.5" 880 KB floppy drive
- A1080 High Resolution color monitor
- KS and WB 1.0 and 1.1 with Extras and Demo disks
- DeluxePaint 1
- Textcraft
- EA's Seven Cities of Gold game
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My first amiga was the 1200 which I bought in 1999, I have since towered it and added what I have in my siggy. I have since bought another 2 1200's and a 500.
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A500 Batpack 1989
A1200 on day of release 1992
Since then, several A1200 wedges and towers with 030/040/060/BPPC/Mediator/Voodoo/FastATA etc, A4000/060, A3000/060/PIV/Deneb, Pegasos I G3, Pegasos II G4, 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 5,8 and a 2.7 GHz Dual Processor PowerMac G5 7,3.
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Mine was an A2000 (one of the German made B2000 models), I later replaced it with an A1500 when the PSU caught fire.
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Amiga 500 1.3.2 with the RED Light!!!
Too bad I was young and fool, I trade her with an A2000.
But that didn't make me clever, I sold her too for an A1200
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A500+ and I remember having to open the box in Comet to ensure I got a + model!
Loved the pack - Lemmings and DP III got most use.
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An A500 rev 5 with KS1.2. :-)
Ah... Those were the days!
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A500 512k WB1.3 later expanded to 1mb
Screen Gems Pack 1990
Brought Shadow of the beast about a year earlier and drooled over it until I saved up for the A500.
Currently have:
2x A500 1mb
1x A600 2mb, 3.1 roms, 4GB hdd.
1x A1200 ACA 1232 128mb, Indi MK2 cr, 3.1 roms, OS3.9 Classic Workbench, SCSI CDrom
1x C64 Breadbin with Reset Switch and SD2ICE
2X C64Cs
Amiga 500 1.3.2 with the RED Light!!!
Too bad I was young and fool, I trade her with an A2000.
But that didn't make me clever, I sold her too for an A1200
I have since brought back the exact A500 with its original screen gems packaging. Its the green light version that I remember.
My other A500 however has the Red light. What's the difference?
Thanks
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Odd the way this is worded. The First Amiga I used was an A1000, but my first Amiga was an A500 (then bought an A1000 setup two days later - go figure)
I still have an A1000 system (not my original) and a couple of A2000 systems.
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Odd the way this is worded. The First Amiga I used was an A1000, but my first Amiga was an A500 (then bought an A1000 setup two days later - go figure)
I still have an A1000 system (not my original) and a couple of A2000 systems.
Corrected. Sorry about that.
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Amiga 1000!
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Corrected. Sorry about that.
Wasn't any big deal, really....
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A500+. Co-owned with my brother. We still have this one.
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a 500 with 1.3 ..first ever game was battlechess ..a pirated version ..yes yes i know ..got the original now ..an the cd32 version an the cdtv version too ...which is actually the best version ..
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Christmas 91 - A500+ Cartoon Classics pack :)
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The A500, shortly after I got a 512KB trapdoor expansion since I bought a game that required 1MB.
I still have the recite from the A500 and back then I payed 5000SEK which is 764USD, but guessing the value of the USD back then I would say it probably was around 500-550USD.
Since I was quite young back then that was quite a large amount of money for me :)
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Amiga 500, Kick1.2, Rev. 3.
I still have her around, but due to several repairs I needed to replace the MoBo. It features now Kick 3.1 and 2MB Chip.
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Stock C= A1200, KS 3.0 with Lemmings 2 and Jurassic Park AGA. It was my first personal computer at 10 years old.
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An early A3000 16 Mhz that came with a 1950 Monitor, a set of A10 speakers, and a Star NX-2420 printer.
Cost my old man a fortune via an employee purchase plan at his work, but was a fun little machine. Later swapped it for an A4000 '040 that I put a '060 and CyberVision into.
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First Amiga was the 4000T from Anti-Gravity.. Had always wanted an Amiga back when the A1000 came out. Remember dreaming of owning the 1000 reading my Commodore mags back in the day.
Rich
NY.
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I started out with the A1000 back in 86 or so... I still have it, although the internal floppy is hosed. Fortunately, I installed a DKB Kwikstart board to hold the kickstart ROMS. I used to have a slap-on-the-side 2-card ZorroII box with a CBM 2058 RAM card and a Trumpcard SCSI controller. I sold that box when I moved to a 2000.
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A500+ Cartoon Classics pack, thought I was getting a C64, nice surprise from the parents for xmas 1991!
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I started out in 1987 with an Amiga 500. I purchased a 512K trapdoor memory expansion, extra floppy drive, and 1084 monitor.
About a year later I sold the A500 and bought a used A2000 system. To that I added a SCSI card, Commodore 020 card, Microway flicker fixer, and a Mitsubishi diamond scan monitor (able to to 15.5Khz and 31Khz).
In 1990 I sold off the A2000 system and purchased an A3000 16Mhz system. I knew I would upgrade the CPU at some point so I didn't want to spend the extra for the 25Mhz version. I eventually added a progressive peripheral Mercury 040 card, and a couple GVP high speed serial cards. Oh.. And I had to buy a used A500 since none on my games worked on the A3000 :)
Once the AGA machines came out I game up. In five years I had spent over 10K on my computer hobby. I wasn't going to fork out another couple grand for an A4000 that was in some ways inferior to my A3000.
About a month before Commodore went bankrupt (1994) I sold off my A3000 system (kept the A500 for games), and I built myself an IBM Pentium P5 60Mhz computer with the money.
I still remember that PC well. 16MB RAM, Orchid Celsius VLB graphics card w/2mb VRAM, Sound Blaster Audio, CDROM, IDE VLB Controller with high speed serial UARTS, Western Digital Caviar HD. It's sad.. But I knew at that point I had made the right decision. That PC lasted me for four years until I built a Pentium II-233 system.
I still have a soft spot for the Amiga. I currently has 2 A2000's and an A500.
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The A500, shortly after I got a 512KB trapdoor expansion since I bought a game that required 1MB.
Since I was quite young back then that was quite a large amount of money for me :)
Its a bit longer love story.
8 bit - all plain, casette, console
Speccy, thin CBM64, Sega Master System
16/32 bit
A1200HD 60MB
+Accel 020/28 4MB FAST FPU
3,5" HDD CD ROM, OS 3.5
Suffering pon Windows
Discovered Linux.
Now AEROS on x64
Linux and AmigaOS 4 on SAMs
Linux and AmigaOS 4 on X1000
Soon MorphOS jumps in
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My father bought an original Amiga 1000 in 85, and I started using it in 89. We had lots-o-software, a 2MB external RAM expansion and dial-out BBS capabilities. I was given the A1000 when my father bought our first PeeCee (Intel) in the early-mid 90's. My A1000 lasted till about 2001, when it finally died. I gave all my software and accessories to my best friend who has a NOS A500.
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Ours was an A500, the plain white box without any extras, bought in 1992. We added the mandatory 512K RAM expansion, and a ridiculously expensive Zydec mouse, which has shown merit for its cost as it's still working after 22 years!
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Amiga 500+
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Amiga 1200 bought in 1995/96
Hours of fun using Wordworth and SWOS 94/95.
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My first one was an A500 w/4MB Baseboard expansion on a multisync tv (had the A520 adapter also). Great machine!
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A used A1000 from a dealer that took trade-ins toward newer models. System only came with 256k RAM, so saved up for the A1050. Couldn't afford a disk drive at the time, so put up with a lot of disk swapping. Had it hooked to a 13" color TV via an RF modulator too. By the time the A500 was released, I was making more money but realized how expensive the A1000 was to upgrade. Decided to sell my A1000 to a friend and put that money toward a nice A500 setup (Kickstart 1.2) with 1MB RAM and a 1084 monitor. That was my main system for a few more years before I got an A1000 back. :)
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It was '85 and I was 7. I came home from school one day and my dad had replaced our C=64 with an Amiga 1000. Within the first 2 months he had bought the Spirit 010 Accelerator with 1 mg of fast and all of our programs stopped working ;) At least all the games I played anyway...
I used that thing until I came home and there was an A3000 in it's place, best Amiga ever. I remember that thing was fast fast fast...
Then Christmas of '92 he got my very own A600. I suppose it's a matter of perspective with the question.
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the first amiga i had was an A500 with ks1.3 and 512kb ram, but, had to return it to the shop ('silica' I think) due to a faulty psu and had a replacement A500 with ks1.2 which I still have, complete with red lights and all :)
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The mine was an Amiga 500 with AmigaOS 1.3 (ancient Workbench 1.3), updated with rom 2.05 and AmigaOS2.05 with MTec controler and Hard disk and 2 MB, etc, of hardware updates.
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A2000HD with OS 1.3 ... later upgraded to OS 3.1
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