Seems i am pretty typical:
I am 32 now, and got my first hands on Amiga experience back in what must have been 86 or maybe early 87...I was 12 years old, and this was an Amiga 1000 with a loaded Workbench. What a beauty, nevertheless I was a little bit disappointed, for i didn't know what to do with it.
You know, on the usual Homecomputer of that age you could type in stuff like
10 print "Spectrum 48k sucks!!"
20 goto 10
run
and had some stupid fun..
but with the workbench, i didn't know exactly what to make out of this.
Anyway, i got my first Amiga (a 500) in Christmas 87, but lost interest in computers somehow around late 1991. At that time i already felt that the pc would crush the Amiga into pieces, to be honest. Seeing Wing Commander and Gunship 2000 in all of their glory, i felt the Amiga was quite underpowered, and Doom in 93 really sealed their fate.
Anyway, the Amiga is still a big love affair of mine. It was the only computer with its own character in these 22 years i am into computers now. Everything else was just silicon.
