Why do you still use your old Amiga?

[Tomas]

In what way is a modern, sub £1000, 3Ghz, Win2K/*nix PC "useless crap"?

Try for example doing a small task like reading/writing from/to a floppy disk... What happens then? the whole system slows down! Now go try the same thing on a classic amiga.  :-)

a x86 is generally less reliable too.

not totally useless though.

[Tomas]

yeah, using a Amiga just feels different.. I feel very ill every time my windoze pc crashes or that i have to reboot it for some reason... i get so frustrated when sitting there waiting for the OS/applications to fully load.

Anyone ever noticed how for example win2k/xp just locks up if you have too many programs starting up at once?? If you have so so many programs in startup, you might actually end up having it locking up during start up!! That is multitasking for ya!

Shutting it down is sometimes a pain also....

[Tomas]

Lately a thunderstorm did cut the power current.

just a tip... Allways unplug your computers when there is a thunderstorm!! I talk from personal experience  ;-)

Last year, there was a bad thunderstorm, i did not unplug any of my equipment.. But anyway, we lost my dads compaq pIII 450, one monitor, hub had actually started to melt and did not work anymore and my 28 inch widescreen tv got heavily damaged"turns itself off with a bang if cold"

Luckily both my linux server"450 ky-2" and my main computer survived with just a reboot.

I so regreat that i did not unplug the compuiters  :-(

The compaq lived for nearly a week afterwards though, then went totally black, never got any life signs out of it again.