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It's-a meeee!
« on: July 24, 2004, 08:45:40 PM »
Well I've been posting a bit but I haven't made any effort to introduce myself, really :-)  So here I go!

I'm Failure.  Most people think that name denotes high self-esteem, but that's where you're wrong!  It's the name of a band I really liked before they uh...failed.  Before that, we're talking a long time ago, I was Commodore Demon or just CD.

I used a C=64 from 1986 to 1994 and I pretty much blame that thing for where I am today:  IT.  In the 90's I started to want to upgrade, but not being old enough to have a job and Amigas being so expensive...this upgrade didn't take place until 1994 when I *was* old enough to have a job.  So I worked all summer.  I placed an order for an A1200 with 8MB, and a 400MB HD from a Canadian company willing to ship to an APO address (stationed in Saudi Arabia at the time).  I forget the name, but they accidentally shipped the machine reserved for me to someone else.  A couple weeks later, Commodore went bankrupt.  Six months(!) later of waiting for backorder, I canceled my order and bought a Pentium 66 :-/

Fast forward to today.  I recently obtained a 3000UX from a fellow A.org member (hi Jamie!), so I went on eBay and bought another A3000 because it was cheaper than a Catweasel.  Then I decided that now was the time to fulfill my dream of having a souped up Amiga.  So I bought a CSPPC and two NICs (which aren't here yet).

So that's about it.  Basically I play with AMIX the most, since that's an environment I'm familiar with.  I am getting used to AmigaOS again.  I'm a Linux SE at my job, so naturally I am very interested in Linux on the Amiga as well.

Nice to meet you all, having a good time so far :-)

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