Nice story Sean Cunningham - I liked the reading a lot. You are a lucky man beeing so deeply involved in some fascinating work, even more when it was done with the miggys ;-)
I got mine A500 somewhere back in 1989 when I was 12. Wanted a C64 like my friend because of the many games - lucky me my brother dicided to buy this used gift for me. Even more lucky me because I got also a Phillips CM8833 with an old Apple Sticker popped on top of it???
Firstly I was the only one in the neighborhood with an miggy but after some searching I found some people for "exchanging" ;-) games. The most lived "far" away - some 1 hour bike ride. Not much time passed and quite some of mine friends upgraded to an miggy :-))
Until 1994 my main use was gaming and typing/printing for school or fun with Textomat on an Star LC-10 color 9 needle printer - wow :-)) Before that I soon had to buy that 512 kb RAM expansion and then also a second DD (it was a hard decision to choose between that and a handy-scanner - but my decision was the right one). HD were so extremely expensive here :-( for the C= at least. I also painted a little bit in DPaint or Sonix.
With the demise of C= (the day is also my birthday - what a coincidence!) I finally got more and more interested in this wonderful machine and switched more and more from buying Amiga-Gaming Magazines also to the ones which dealed with the serious stuff. Luckily a friend quickly sold his more or less new A1200 (and I my A500 with beginning errors on vector graphics) with this beast my intense Amiga story really began when I discovered that I can watch that colourfull JPGs from PCs - it began to get really usefull. An new boost was finally a harddisk a year or two later and soon a CD-ROM and an 17" monitor. Then a Blizzard 1230IV. Then I towered it - crappy Micronic keyboard interface.
When I began to work I soon bought this long desired used A4000/030 with CV643D some TBC and other nice stuff. Then another A4000/040 and I sold the former one. The came a used but pricy CSPPC - I was in heaven :-))))))
After I got a cheap CDTV and A3000 and CD32 I started my collectors careeer :-( After buying more or less a full lot from another collector I now have a little too much to use - life evolved. But it don`t stopped me to buy on of the last µA1 and 2 years ago also a MOS-MAC-G4MDD.
I am not a big fan of the emulation but I am happy that there is at least this option. The Classics are the best but I like the possibilitys of the NGs which carry the system, I like most in the world, to modern possibilitys at faster speed.
