Your first A500

[Gavilan]

Well...my first Amiga 500...wow...such a long time ago..I was an exchange student in San Diego...went to a shopping mall..saw one running some demo...called my mother asking for her permission..she told me "ok, buy it, but when you return home, you get rid of the C=64 you have..i dotn want more garbagge in your room" )
I bought it the very next day, with the a501 clock expansion. Paid a LOT of money (cant remember how much), got rid of all boxes, put it in the middle of the my luggage, and pray. At local customs here, i had to pay one guy 50 dollars extra to be able to bring it home. It came with Carmen Sandiego & Tetris. The very first day home, i sold all my c=64 equipment, bought a 1084 and bought about 10 games....Thats the beginning of my story with Amiga, and was the "end" with C=64 (I returned 10 years later, when i re-bought all the stuff i have sold)
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Regards

[Gavilan]

Well...i was a C= fan (having a huge 64c and 128 and all that stuff) and had the chance of seeing one Amiga 500 at my local shop (and by "local" i mean, a store which was 2000 km away from me. Yes, i lived in the south of Argentina, where no places to buy stuff for computers..) Anyway, it was SO expensive (but SO beatiful). In 1989 i was an exchange student in San Diego (California), and i went to one of those chain computer shop called Electronics Boutique. Saw one 500, asked how much it was. Called back my parents, asked for permission, returned the very next day...I took it all way to Argentina with me, played a lot with Tetris and Carmen San Diego until "Insert Lazarus volume" appeared..then my love with Amigas begun...Of course it was NTSC so i had to "fix" that (it cost me 100 dollars to convert it to PAL) Then, i bought a rom switcher, an Action Replay, a 1084d monitor (actually i trade it for ALL my c64/128 stuff), a sampler, a second drive...bla bla bla...
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