First heard about the Hi-Torro Lorraine in 1983. Read all about it in 1984 from the Winter CES Report in Compute! magazine. Much drool commenced.
July 1985 got my first AmigaWorld Magazine. Dreams became really colorful.
October 1985 - Dreams become reality:
A1000 with A1080 monitor & A1010 external floppy
Came with Kick/WB .9x (can't remember exactly)
Textcraft
Graphicraft
ABasiC
Mindscape Demo
The Boing Demo
The futuristic City Demo
The OS, Textcraft and Graphicraft were extremely buggy, and there was not much RAM left to do anything. The Boing demo blew me away, and the City demo's display was weird, and if you moved the mouse too much, the demo would slow to a crawl.
A week later, got another identical system, but also got:
Extra 256K for both machines
Deluxe Paint 1.0
By November 1985, upgraded both to Kickstart/Workbench 1.0. Huge performance increase, along with stability, but still quite a few crashes.
In January/Febuary 1986 (can't remember) got Kick/WB 1.1, and my first copy of Amazing Computing Magazine.
I have never looked back since...
Other notable events:
Met Jim Butterfield, Dale Luck, RJ Mical, all of NewTek, et al. at various USA west coast Amiga shows.
August 1987 helped in the creation of Sistemas Delta in Costa Rica, a software development house / computer store. (search for various C and Basic programs), and helped develop R.U.M.S. (Rental Unit Management System - hotel management software).
In September 1992 met Jay Miner at the unveiling of the A4000 and A1200 in Pasadena CA. GRHS.
In 1998 got Boing Ball logos and Amiga stickers from Petro mailed to me (at his cost).
I now have two A1000's, one A500, one A2000 (w/VideoToaster 2.0), three A3000's and one A4000 (w/VideoToaster Flyer).
Awaiting for release of OS4 and cash for AmigaOne G4.
