I used my old A600 as my only computer until I got an old 286 for word processing in '99 ( hey, Ms Works 2.0 was actually good, and it was good enough to type on... :-) )
A few months later I built myself a 486 from old parts, and after a few months more my grandparents gave me a ( allmost ) brand new Compaq. ( 233 MHz ) and that was enough for me to move over to the dark side.
After that I bought my A1200, but the PC ( 750 by now ) is still my main computer ( after all, I am a PC-technician :-P ).