Tell us about your Amiga 1000 experiences

[klx300r]

funny this thread should pop up just when I finally bought my first A1000:drink: I've always drooled for one ever since the first time I laid eyes on her when I was 15 at a local computer shop.  My mouth just dropped watching the boing ball & juggler demo's at a time when PC & Apple products needed upgraded graphic and sound cards to not even come close to the bog standard Amiga and the casing was just ultra cool.  Alas at 15 the A1000 was out of my reach on a paper route income:roflmao: A Vic20, C64, A500, A1200 took me thorugh to university when work and AutoCad forced me to the PC world.
Came back to the Amiga with my Samflex@800 in 2009 & this past year upgraded to an AmigaONE-X1000 which will soon be sitting next to its famous forefather Amiga 1000 :knuddel::cool:

@ smerf

great story and man if my wife did that to me miggies I think I would have had a heart attack!

[klx300r]

If I remember correctly 40MB HDDs (Seagate MFM 5.25" HH) were selling for approx. $800.00 CDN in 1988/89. At least that's what we sold them for installed in the store I worked for.

Say did you work at Comspec on Wilson just west of Duffetin St?
I grew up in that neighborhood and spent endless hours in that store as a teenager just typing basic programs from magazines into the 64's and Amiga 1000's :knuddel:

All these years later and I still feel the excitement when I turn on my A1000 and constantly searching for the mythical Comspec SA1000 scsi side controller

[klx300r]

@ shaf

Awesome stuff! Those were the days eh. I went to the wingold store a few times but mostly spent my time at the Wilson Ave store.

So any chance you know where I can find a SA1000 for my beloved A1000:D