Average Amiga user age?

[amigadave]

Not how old are you, but how long have you been an Amiga user?  I was just wondering how long many of our most active posters here have been using an Amiga.

Edit:  My curiosity is mostly how many users fall into the last choice in the poll, how many are "Newbies" and have only started using an Amiga within the last 5 years or less.  I know that there are some that have posted on the forums here that have stated that they have only been using an Amiga for a few years, which is surprising that there are people that could be interested in starting to use a system that was designed and produced over 25 years ago.  It is a real testament to what the Amiga is and how unique it is, as I doubt that any other system of similar age could boast it has as many new users as the Amiga.  Who would be interested in starting out with an Atari, an Apple II, or even the famous Commodore64, if they had no previous experience with those or other old computer systems in the past to spark their interest in old systems.  The Amiga has an appeal that none of the other old computer systems have, that can still inspire a curiosity and interest in new users today.  Not a large number of people, but still some new users are drawn to the Amiga each year.  Unfortunately, the number of new users is only a fraction of the number of Amiga users that stop using Amiga systems and our community continues to decline in numbers.

[amigadave]

Over 100 votes in less than a day, not bad.  Less than 4% Newbies, which is understandable and over 75% are in the Forever and Old Timers categories, which was to be expected around these parts.

[amigadave]

I Bought my first Amigas this year, in february.
I had an Atari 520ST when i was a kid and was actually looking to buy one when i stumpled upon an ad for three amigas. It was hard to find any Ataris for sale so I thought "Why not, I never used an Amiga before".
 
So I bought two A500 and a A600 as a package together with some books, a genlock, 3 external disk drives, a handheld scanner and some other stuff like cables. Just 100 euros for all!
About a month after I bought two A1200, and an ACA1230 Accelerator.
 
So I went from zero to five Amigas in about a month =)
 
No regrets! Oldschool is fun!

Now that you have been using the Classic Amigas for a few months, are you still looking to buy an old Atari, or have you decided that it is more fun to own and use your Amigas to satisfy your retro-computing urges?

[amigadave]

I still have my old Atari. But it's just the computer, no cables, no floppy drive, no power supply.
 
I was thinking that i might try to modify an amiga power suppply, buy a cable to connect to my SCART equipped CRT, and use a floppy emulator with sd-card that i bought for my amigas to get the old Atari running again.
 
But it would be of no real use to me, the Amiga platform feels much more alive these days than the Atari. So if i do it, it's just because it's doable, I probably wouldn't use it much.

Good Man!  That is what all of us rabid Amiga fans wanted to read.  You can also probably emulate an Atari on one of your A1200's well enough to get your Atari fix, if you can't get the real Atari hardware to run again.