Just a quick introduction

[Tsargon]

Hi!

Just a quick introduction.  I'm back to the Amiga scene after a long hiatus.  I purchased my first Amiga, an A2000 with dual floppy drives and the A2088 bridgeboard, while in college in the summer of 1990.  I still have the machine as my primary Amiga, but I have since added a GVP G-Force 030 board with a 50 MHz 68030, 68882 and 16 MB of RAM, a handful of various SCSI drives and a recently purchased XSurfer ethernet board.  I also made the jump into the AGA world with a recent purchase of a nice A1200HD off eBay.  The only mod on it is a PCMCIA NIC and a RAM expander with 4/8 MB (depending on whether I'm using the PCMCIA or not!).

I fell away from the Amiga around 1997, but got back into it after starting a retro computer collection.  To the above machines and my original Commodore 64, I've since added a KIM-1, a VIC-20, a Plus 4, a 128D, a Silicon Graphics O2, a Mac SE/30 (sadly with a busted CRT!) and a Sinclair ZX81.

I'm a full time software engineer and I cut my teeth programming on that old C-64.  I still enjoy hacking on the old machines as you can actually get to know the machine, unlike today's boxes that try to abstract everything away from you.  I absolutely love those old machines!  I've since gone through four different IBM PCs and got rid of them, but I just can't give up my old Commodore machines!

Thanks for you time!

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Tsargon

[Tsargon]

marcfrick2112 wrote:
Just curious, where did you get the Silicon Graphics machine? How expensive was it? I really would like one to play around with for graphics, assuming I could find/afford the software....

No idea.  It was donated to my collection from a friend who was moving from his parents house into a much smaller studio apartment.  I can ask him when I see him next.  I currently have NetBSD 3.0 loaded on it and I'm working on getting PostgreSQL so as to use it on a project as the database server.  I looked at loading IRIX on it... the CDs weren't too bad, but the license was a bit steep for me just for hobby purposes!

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Tsargon