Ahh... only very briefly. I saw an advert in a computer magazine for an "AMICA" (or thats what I thought it said
, which would have been in 89/90, when I was around 10 or 11. Being immensly defensive of our families Acorn Electron (hey, my parents werent made of money, you know
, I immediately decided that it must be crap. I think a couple of weeks later some friends at school were talking about this "Amiga" that one of them had got. I said "Nooo! Its Amica! and besides, its rubbish!" or words to that effect. They just laughed. Then, another guy at school got one, and I got my first look at an A500. Wow! I was blown away! I begged my parents for one, but they couldn't afford it, so they got me a refurbished C64 with 1541 disk drive and a joystick. Not being a spoilt brat, I was perfectly happy with that. In fact, the disk drive alone was a revelation after the old tape decks
I got some really great games and started to learn to program on the C64, and swapped disks with some other C64 owning friends.
Fast forward to about 1992 or so, and most of the people at school have A500s. I decide I'm going to save up and get an Amiga. I scrimped and save my pocket money, and I got a weekend job helping out clearing up at a local outdoor market. Some time in 1993, I've saved up £200 or so, and for my birthday my parents make up the other £200 and I get my paws on a lovely new A1200! I was one of the first three in our school to get the new A1200... that was the best birthday present ever! And the rest, as they say, is history.
