The "retro" movement is gaining popularity these days. And those of us who have been retro before retro was cool are starting to lose our elite status. We can welcome the new insurgencies, or we can become sullen and sulk about how we were doing it long before...
My girlfriend and I were discussing the Austrian kidnapper's C64 and how that was his only computer. I mentioned that there are a lot of people in the world who only use old computers -- TI-99/4, C64, Atari ST, Amiga, etc. -- for whatever reason, usually mainly because the darned thing works so why buy a bloat machine.
It was at this point in the conversation that she reminded me that I did not own a Windows PC until after she started dating me in 2000 when I bought my first laptop. I really had forgotten that up until 1999 my only home computers were Amiga (of course, post-Commodore 64/128 days) and it was only a year later that I actually purchased a Windows PC.
So I told you all of that to ask you this: when did you acquire your first Windows or Mac to become your primary computer, or do you still use Amiga (or other "retro"/"classic"/"alternative" computer) primarily?
Are we sick? :-)
