Tell us about your Amiga 1000 experiences

[Drummerboy]

So tell us about your 1000 experiences.

Did you own one "back in the day"?

Yeah, i had several Amiga 1000 back in the day.


Did you buy one later in life (past the heyday of amiga's)?


Well, many A1000s past with my hands, but i always had.


What attracted you to it back then? What parts didn't you like?

Was the first Amiga i had. You know, later was released the A500/A2000, if you wanted any Amiga, there was no option. Just A1000. Has a cool design for that time, you know, the keyboard storage  its a nice feature.
No audio filter, the serial port its inverted. You need start with a Kickstart Disk.


If you bought one years later, what attracted you?

I keep my A1000, but nowdays, the Amiga 1000 has a historical Value, becouse was the first Amiga ever made. The creators  signatures inside the case, its a nice remembrance. The A1000 has great manufactoring quality.
Something anecdodotal, in the A1000 its, when you turn on, and put high  the monitor volume, you will hear any sympathetic sound, something like " tu ru ru ru"

Did you expand them? Use it "raw" ? What did you do on it back then? Today?

Yeah, back in time, i had everything for the A1000, memory expansions, Modems, chip kickstart, external Disk Drive, hard drive, and other things i cant remember.

In fact, i still have two Amiga 1000. One of theses with 1.2 Kickstart Rom and Hard disk, and other, standard or stock with 256k front memory expansion, (512kb total) both with the Amiga 1010 external Disk Drive, offcourse.

I play sometimes in any of these A1000 some disk games. Its a nice Amiga model.

[Drummerboy]

I really like that idea.
The Amiga 1000 is "an Amiga" computer.
The A500/2000 thru the A1200/4000 are "Commodore Amiga" computers.

:-)

desiv

Thats true..

But

"If you think about it, it's the only "actual" amiga, meaning it is the manifestation of what the designers were aiming for. ."


not necessarily was what the designers were aiming for. Becouse when was released the A2000, Jay Miner, said something like, the Amiga 2000  is more like what he wanted to design.

[Drummerboy]

For me the timing of this post is also perfect, as I just picked up my
first ever A1K last weekend. If anyone wants to sneak a peek,
here are some pictures :

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album-7INT7VO8



And now I have an actual hardware project once more

Watching your A1000 pics, came to me any interesting diferent between the American Amiga 1000 and Europe Amiga 1000, and this is the Europe A1000 not have daugtherboard, the American A1000 has dautherboard.