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I find myself in the same boat. I am 46 now. I first got into Amigas around 1986 with the A1000. I got later got an A2000 which I upgraded with a hard drive and extra RAM. Then finally an A2630 accelerator. I left in the mid-nineties as my career focus was supporting WinTel technologies as a computer technical support professional.

Then about a year and a half ago, I returned. First it was through the purchase of Amiga Forever 2005 on my PC. Then I found an old copy of Amithlon which I successfully installed on an old PIII-1000 PC. I was hooked again. I took out my classic Amiga's and got them working again. I purchased an A1200 and A500 as well.

I am closely following the OS4/new hardware saga and hoping for the best. My most enjoyable time with computers has always been with Amigas, even though I have had much experience with PC's, Macs and Linux machines as well.
A1000 - 2 Floppies, 2 MB RAM, OS 1.0-1.3
A500 - 170 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, OS 1.3/2.04
A2000 - 350 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, A2630, OS 2.04
A2500 - 540 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, A2630, OS 3.9
A1200 - 20 GB HD, 64 MB RAM, Blizzard IV
Amithlon - 49 GB HD, 768 MB RAM, PIII-1G
AROS - 80 GB HD, 2 GB RAM, P4-3.2GHz