What do you use your Amiga for

[LoadWB]

gdanko wrote:

Can you connect to shared printers?
Can you do most of your office app type work on an Amiga?
Contact management?

Wondering how feasible, say, an A4000 040 with 64m fast RAM would be in the real world.

Yes.  HP 4050DTN via JetDirect, and an HP 882C via lpr port on SMC Barricade router.

Not any more.

Not any more.

I do, however, maintain personal emails on the Amiga, while business are on the Windows box.  This should give the Feds a WTF moment when they raid my compound  :-D

Up until around 2000-ish, my A4000 was my main computer.  Since then the Windows machine has usurped the Amiga mostly out of necessity.  I am a Windows (and Solaris) system administrator after all.  And even so, I could essentially go back to using my Amiga as the only machine, what with RDesktop, samba, ssh, YAM, and IBrowse, I could get away with it for the most part.

And I'll tell you from experience that a 40MHz 4000 is useful, but not entirely practical.  Now, PPC is another story.  I have a CSMKIII with 128MB RAM on the 4000 now, PIV, and X-Surf -- I can get away with a LOT.  I'm hoping to have at least one working Blizzard PPC soon.

[EDIT]: I meant CyberStorm PPC

[LoadWB]

The 680x0 series is QUITE capable.  IINM, the 030 and 040 CPUs still lie at the heart of numerous pieces of network equipment  and printers.  Some have gone or are going to later incarnations of the Motorola CPUs, like the PowerPC.  It's neat to still find them in equipment.