Hi,
@TheMagicM
The way I happened on the Amiga was my old IBM type died, so I was looking for a new computer, just so happened the Amiga just hit the market the day I was looking for an IBM compatible machine. The store salesman told me that in a couple of weeks that a software package called the transformer would be out and this would transform the Amiga into an IBM type machine so that I could make my Lotus 123 spreadsheets. So after listening to his speal on how much better the Amiga was going to be, I bought one. Now in another week (not 2) the transformer hit the market and I bought one, it worked great but slowly, I was able to program my Lotus 123 spreadsheets on the Amiga so I was quite happy, but on the other hand I thought the Amiga really sucked, I mean why did I have to type in format drive df0: name buffalo, where on the IBM type machine all I had to type in was format a: /s
Also why did I have to type in 4 characters verse 2 on the IBM for the disk drive (df0: a:) I mean the commands for the Amiga where not only complex but I was wearing my fingers out typing. How could a sorry OS like this ever compete with any other operating system, How could the person who made this think that this junk would sell? How could Peter Pan make pancakes?
Anyhow the Amiga had no rivals except for the old C64, and who cared about that, the C64 was just a game machine, the Amiga at least could do real work on the IBM side of the house (slowly), so was I happy with the Amiga yes and no, am I happy with the Amiga now, heck yes. After I mastered the commands of the OS the Amiga blew the IBM away, and it was fun to write programs in AmigaDos.
smerf,
