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Re: When did you get your first Amiga ?
« on: May 23, 2009, 03:26:23 AM »
Quote from: dougal;455696
I got mine at around June 1992 . I was 12 years old .

I was annoyed that my friends had Amiga's and i had a horrible Atari 65XE , so after bugging my parents , I finally got my dad to buy me an Amiga .

I still remember the day :-)

A brand new A500Plus Cartoon Classics pack (with Simpsons,Lemmings & Capt Planet) and a Commodore 1084S .

Never before (or since) had i been so happy with a computer :)


Hi,

I bought my Amiga 1000 exactly 2 weeks after Commodore first introduced them, it was a great experience since my Otrana CPM emulated PC DOS with a Z80 and an original PC chip (i believe 8088) that emulated a DOS running machine finally expired. I was looking for a DOS type machine that used MSDOS 1.0 since I was programming Lotus 123 spreadsheets and Dbase II & III data bases for Navy, private business and banks. The person at the store assured me that the Amiga 1000 would be able to emulate a DOS machine with either DOS emulator software or a side car. So I laid out $1595.00 and bought an Amiga 1000 with 512K of ram, a supra hard drive card a 5 meg hard drive and then later 2 more meg of ram, for a total cost of about $3000.00. Later about 3 months down the road I bought a 68010 accelerator for the Amiga. This was really a flying system back then, was I disappointed, well at first yes, why did I have to type in df0: instead of just A:, Why did i Have to type in DH0: instead of C: ever try to format a disk with the original Amiga DOS commands, or try to copy a file over from a disk drive to a hard drive with the original Amiga DOS, what a nightmare, but somehow the Amiga grew on me and after about 6 months I thought that this was the greatest machine ever made.

Well I got a little off track anyhow I bought my Amiga 1000 2 weeks after the introduction.

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