Well ,
First time I saw an Amiga, it was an A1000 in a french magazine called "LED Micro" back in 1984/5. The mag featured a lengty report of the Worl Premiere of the Amiga, with beautifull photos (What a Beast!), screenshots (aaah! kingtut), and an extensive cover of how it amazed the great Andy Warrol.
I was blown out! and instantaneously felt in love ! That WILL BE THE Computer I want and I got it... well in 1998 (A1000 won on IBazar for 600 French Francs) ;-)
In the meantime I saved all that I can on my small revenue and finally bought my real first Amiga in 1987: an Amiga 500 + A501 + DPaint II for the amazing sum of 9000 Francs at the time :-) and never regret it. Soon after I bought an external floppy to avoid to many swapping ;-) and one of the very first version of PageStream (was called Publishing Partner Master at the time).
Since this purchase I never bought ANY other computers than Amigas, currently I own 23 units, almost all the models ever made, except the A600, A4000T, A1500, and prototypes :-D (BTW, if you have these model you want to sell... :-) )
Of course I tried or was forced to work on others (PeeCees (berk berk berk :-P ) and MacIntoshes (better) but never found the same feeling/ease of use/power than with my Amiga.
I'm currently waiting for AmigaOS4.0 to buy an AmigaONE G4 to complete my collection, I will don't mind a laptop too, but don't despair to see one day a real new custom Amiga ;-)
Amigalement,
Jean-François, Amiga ONLY since 1985.
