The short story goes something like this:
When I was a kid of some 8-9 years I had a friend with a NES and a friend with a C64. Much time was spent with these two individuals as I didn't have anything like this myself and other friends, well... they didn't either.
When I was 12 I got a MasterSys for birthday. The same year I bought a C64 that was in my possesion for a total of 3 hours before I was forced to return it as the elders had spoken against it (or rather it's pricetag).
In amongst this time I also realized my grandparents neighbor kid got a computer. Grand spanking new A500 sported hours of fun with north and south.
My dad met up with a new girl when I was 15 and her oldest son, a few years older than me, had an A500+/030. Played loads of fun games on that one he also progged quite a bit of AMOS on it. But then as I turned 16 I ran into some troubles with an old man who clubbered me and the court granted me some $. Well... it was spent on a Moped and an A600. Little did I know then that the A500+/030 was for sale at a much lower rate as the above said son now had an A1200.
Anyway, this A600 was what realy got things started and since the above said son now had an a1200 it didn't take long before I just had to have one aswell... and so I did.. and my GF at the time got the A600. Time went on and I upgraded it quite a bit. Then came the day when I started to come by more $ and finaly there was a chanse to save loads of cash as long as noodles and walking was prioritized... and they where. And so I came to buy an A4000 with 060. Ow boy it was different but it was a bit flakey and I got the seller to agree to take it back in exchange I payed a few $ more and walked away with his A4000 060 in Micronic tower. This baby was so nice and I had much fun with it.
Then came the dark ages. I had turned 21 and some firends played Diablo and also surfed the web and watched unspecified movies. All of witch I could not attend with this computer so I bought an P166 on the side. Not long there after I had to move and needed $ so sadly had to part with my A4000T and settle with the A1200 (now downgraded again as a friend of mine needed upgrading his A1200). All was fine until later that year when the PSU on the A1200 started to fail.
Fast forward 2 years while the A1200 was in the clauset. I met up with a group of Amiga enthusiast. They helped me get the A1200 on it's feet again and the hole world of Retro opened up to me. $ was plentyfull compared to the earler years (though still not plentyfull enough). I started collecting and uppgrading and buy in big quantities to take wanted parts and part way with the leftovers for most times a bit of a profit. Now and then I toss a few 100's of $ into new bits and peises and it's become the collection of machines and hardware I have today visible from the link in my signature below.
