The Beginning

[HopperJF]

Hi all,
What was your first Amiga and when did you buy it? What did you eventually do to it? Do you still have it? How much was it?

To get the ball rolling...

I got a second hand Amiga 600 from a friend in September 1999 in exchange for £6 and a 2Mb PlayStation memory card.
The machine came with around 10 boxed games.
When I picked it up I dropped it outside in the rain. The F4 key has been missing since, but after a quick clean it worked.

I swapped it for an A500 with a friend in 2000. I eventually sold that A500 and got an A1200 which I towered and eventually sold for £75. I then purchased a desktop A1200 in February 2003 for gaming for around £45, and the famous yellow A600 in December 2003 for games that would not run on the 1200.
I currently have that A1200 set up.

Mike.

[HopperJF]

x56h34 wrote:
Hey, didn't we have this topic already, like a million times now? :-)

Probably, but I missed it  :-P

[HopperJF]

Plaz wrote:
Ah memories. Bought my first 500 from a local computer store in 1988. Took an old desktop CPM system, gutted it, then built the 500 MotherBoard with goodies like HD, Accel, memory, 2meg chipmem and dual floppies. I cabled the keyboard so the whole thing was similar to an A2000 that I couldn't afford at the time. I labled it the TS500. I still have it today on a shelf. I take it down once in a while and make sure it still works. The last time I used it was about a year ago to test some C programs I compiled on my 4000. It still worked. A500/8meg/2megchip/030-882-50mhz/220megHD/

Plaz

Wow, an interesting first Amiga  :-)
Do you have any photographs online of it?

[HopperJF]

Polls arent as fun. I'm sure many people on here have many interesting stories as to their first Amigas...

[HopperJF]

My A1200 was my main machine in 2001/2002. But I then only used it for the odd games until selling it in 2002.
Used a Duron 750 running Windows 98, eventually got XP in July 2003.
In  November 2003 my main machine beccame a Mac, which I sit typing at now.

I use a desktop 1200 purchased in February 2003 for games.
I have a PS2, b ut it collects dust.
The A1200 is my ONLY gaming machine (look at sig).
Although in a few weeks I will have a 520 ST and might set that up for a while instead.