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Re: Does anyone here solely use a Classic Amiga?
« on: July 20, 2010, 07:23:59 AM »
I had an A1200 with 060 accelerator - I don't know when, well over 10 years ago I guess, and I was doing some web browsing with voyager.  I had an NEC 3D multisync monitor.  I was doing some website work on that thing - oh but it was horrible, I hate to even mention it - and I was doing some coding - some task at work where I was helping them do polling (yes on the Amiga, I was taking files home from work, sorting and processing them on my amiga at home, and bringing the results back into work ) and that actually got me a job in IT, and I was asked to learn SQL Server, and I've been a database admin ever since - although I was only on SQL server a year, before switching to Oracle.

about that Amiga - the 060 gave me a little oomph processor wise, but AGA was just a dog.   I bought a powermac - I don't even remember the brand, it was  60mhz 601 variety - and I only bought it because I found a deal on one, it was a used model, that someone was selling - I didn't know then I was transitioning out of the Amiga world - but the web browsing was so much better, and later I found a copy of Photoshop for mac in a warehouse liquidation store, near my house - and that was totally cool too.

I've been a mac user at home ever since, and I've used hp-ux, and now linux, at work

For me the Amiga community is just a cool community of creative people, I don't really care to use an Amiga at all.   I recently tried Icaros on VirtualBox, and on my core 2 duo, mac mini, it actually runs quite decent - but I'm typing this post in Safari, and I'm quite happy with the mac experience.
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