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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« on: September 09, 2011, 04:23:28 AM »
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20 years ago.

What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?



1991?  I was on my second A2000 (actually an A1500).  IIRC it was a stock 68000 CPU with ECS chipset, 3.5MB RAM (1MB on mobo, 512KB salvaged from the original A2000 on a Zorro card, and 2MB on my GVP SCSI controller), 2 floppy drives, KS1.3 and KS2.0 on a keyboard controlled ROM switcher, 128MB SCSI hard drive with a WB1.3 and WB2.0 setup which booted into the correct Workbench by detecting which Kickstart was active at boot (I think I used something called WHATKICK in my startup-sequence), Microway SDFF & 15" VGA monitor and a cheap-arsed colour dot-matrix printer.
A2000, A3000, 2 x A1200T, A1200, A4000Tower & Mediator, CD32, VIC-20, C64, C128, C128D, PET 8032, Minimig & ARM, C-One, FPGA Arcade... and AmigaOne X1000.
 

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2011, 04:25:45 AM »
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A4000D w/Cyberstorm PPC/060 64M RAM
PicassoIV gfx card with Concierto sound card
Oktagon SCSI with CD-R and CD-ROM
Boingball mouse, original keyboard
21" AOC monitor

Can't remember what was the size of my hard drive. 4Gb maybe..

I sold this Amiga in 1999 and still waiting for a new one since...keeping my hopes for the X1000 or Natami or might get tempted by a SAM in a near future.


They had the A4000 out in 1991?  I couldn't remember whether I got my A1200 in '91 or '92... I'm getting old and senile.  :D

Edit:  Actually, I think I'm right.  From Wikipedia:

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There are two models, the A4000/040 released in October 1992 with a Motorola 68040 CPU, and the A4000/030 released in April 1993 with a Motorola 68EC030.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2011, 04:28:38 AM »
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Edited my message, I realized in 1991 I was still with my A500 :P  sorry


LOL.  In fairness, it was a looooooooooooooooong time ago.  :D
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2011, 04:43:43 AM »
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Had a Donkey Kong cocktail table arcade, Bally Star Trek pinball and a Gottlieb Count Down pinball in the same small apartment.


I bet you had lots of friends too!
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2011, 01:36:54 PM »
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Here was my setup! I think this was closer to 1992. I had an A500 with an IVS Trumpcard with a 20MB hard drive and an IVS MetaFour card with 4MB of RAM. I thought I ruled the world.

The local computer club was an "every platform" club. I recall taking this to a meeting and just getting a barrage of questions. The two questions I remember best were, "How much RAM do you have?" I replied proudly, "5 MEGABYTES!" and the other was "How big is your Hard Drive? I also proudly replied "20 MEGABYTES!. I remember one guy saying, "You'll never fill that up!"


That desk is so neat it is scary!
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2012, 04:13:31 AM »
Back in 1991 I had just the one Amiga:

A1500 with a 68000
ECS Chipset
1MB Chip
1MB Fast
0.5MB Zorro RAM (stripped from my broken B2000)
GVP Hard Card with 2MB RAM and a 120MB SCSI hard drive
2 floppies
1081 Monitor and a dot-matrix printer.
I think I had also installed a keyboard ROM switcher at that point with 1.3 and 2.0 ROMs.

I'm pretty sure my SDFF and VGA monitor were added in 1992 just before I bought an A1200.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2012, 12:30:44 AM »
Some time during '91 my original A2000 PSU caught fire and I replaced it with an ECS A1500.  So, it would have looked like this:

A1500 with stock 68000 CPU
2 x Floppy drives (One salvaged from A2000)
128MB Hard Drive with extra 2MB RAM on SCSI card (salvaged from A2000)
0.5MB Zorro RAM card (salvaged from A2000)
A1081 monitor
Colour dot matrix printer
A2000, A3000, 2 x A1200T, A1200, A4000Tower & Mediator, CD32, VIC-20, C64, C128, C128D, PET 8032, Minimig & ARM, C-One, FPGA Arcade... and AmigaOne X1000.