@ Amiganow: congrats! I too just won an A1000 on ePay. It was boxed and looks to be in excellent shape. The 1000 was my first Amiga as well and I remember saving up to get it. Fortunately, Christmas was right around the corner and my parents offered to go halvsies so I could get it in time. This was back in the day when computer stores were computer stores. In other words, not only did they offer professional service and support, they took trade-ins toward other models at the time. In this particular case, it was late 1986 and the A1000 I wanted was a used model without a box that the original owner put toward an A2000. I remember putting some money down on it and requesting I be able to take the keyboard, mouse, disks and manual home so I could study up. I was so excited to even have just a few pieces of an A1000. lol Finally brought the machine home, hooked it to a television via a $30 Radio Shack RF converter and got to tinkering with AmigaBasic. My A1000 only had 256k of ram and I found I had to save up again for the other 256k 1050 module. Never bothered to expand it further than that. I was unaware how expensive expanding a 1000 was until I started looking. It was really cost prohibitive at the time. That 1050 expansion I remember was somewhere in the $100 range. I ultimately ended up selling my A1000 to finance a 500, which was easy and cheap to expand. Guess I have a soft spot in my heart for the 500 as well. Incredible little system I remember fondly.
I do remember though when places like Software Hut and Grapevine Group started advertising the Phoenix and Rejuvenator boards for the 1000. They too were cost prohibitive, but in hind sight, I wish I would have gone that route. There's just something so cool about owning the original Amiga 1000. Hard to explain, but when you literally grew up with computers, witnessed their evolution, read and subscribed to the old magazines that would hype these things -not too hard to understand the culture back then. Kids today should be so lucky ;-)
