Tell us about your Amiga 1000 experiences

[JimS]

So tell us about your 1000 experiences.

Well, I bought my A1000 new, back in the day. I'd been an Atari 8-bit guy for a long time, but we kept hearing rumors of this new "Lorraine" or "Amiga" that could do "Saturday morning cartoon" level animation. I knew that I wanted one.

Eventually I expanded the 1000 with a Phoenix Toolbox 2-slot Zorro II adapter and a DKB Kwikstart ROM board. I used a CBM 2058 ram board in the phoenix box. With a recoverable ram disk, it was almost like having a HD, until I could afford a "giant" 40 mB hd. ;-)

[JimS]

Do you remember what you paid for that 40 meg HD?

I remember reading articles of a 20 meg drive being advertised as "basically unlimited storage"

If I recall, it was a customer trade in. I was working at an Amiga store at the time. I guess it would have been considered obsolete by the time I got it... around 91 or so. It was kinda marginal, suffering from "stiction". You had to poke the spindle to get it started.... but I was happy to get it. ;-)

You want to talk about insane disk prices... I remember paying $500 for an 88K floppy drive on my Atari 800. And was glad to get it. ;-)