I owned multiple C64's, C128's, every possible peripheral including several 1581's ect. A friend - co-worker of mine was telling me about this amazing new Amiga that had just come out a while ago, the 1000. I checked with my local dealer and they were still about $1000.00 at the time if I remember correctly. I wanted one badly but I couldn't afford it. Some time passes and I walk in to another store I traded with all the time. They had a "Shadow of the Beast II" demo disk running in the store on the A1000. I asked them to see some more. The tech showed a couple HAM pictures to me along with a few other demo's and I was hooked. On my next trip down to their store I brought most of my C64 stuff and traded up to the same Amiga 1000 I watched the demos on. I still have that non-playable SOTB II demo floppy, they just left it in the machine. This particular 1000 doesn't need a Kickstart disk as it has eproms in the extra sockets. I still have it along with lots of other classics. At the time I also had an amber mono 286 PC. I remember thinking how much further ahead my new Amiga was than my PC at the time, it blew me away!
Over the years I bought a Spirit Technologies HDA-506 RLL hard drive controller and a Spirit X-Ram card for them (I no longer have these expansions). Now the nicest one I have is equipped with a FFV2 Vga adapter (I made a special PCB to relocate it), an Mtec 020 board with 4 megs of ram (I also had to make a special relocation PCB for this), a Kickstart adapter board from DJBase, an AdIDE board hooked up to a 512m CF card, and an A1060 Sidecar (also completely gone through).
Since I put this together I have also purchased a pair of the blank GB-1000 PCB's during the run on here a couple years back. I still need to find someone to do the SMT stuff on one of those for me. Many memorable years and LOTS of enjoyment.
