Amiga: Hobby or Everyday Computing?

[quarkx]

I love it as a pure hobby. I work on monster machines all day (like my $7000 Voodoo laptop, building websites, doing 3 D animation and such). To me, the few hours a night working and learning the Amiga is just plain fun. Half the fun is hunting down parts, collecting the pieces and so forth.The fact I have a few hundred floppies to go through and figure out what they are, and if they work is half the fun.
I have a buddy who restores old cars, and he see really no difference in doing that and messing around with old computers.
If I had gotten right off the bat, a A4000 all souped up, I think I wouldn't have half the fun with it. The fact That I am starting with a base A2000 and working up, is the fun part. But hey, thats just me. :-D

[quarkx]

taunusand wrote:
@quarkx
I agree :-)
Another hobby of mine is Ford Taunus, I know a lot of people having old classic Ford cars as theis hobby. We also collect parts, spend time maintaining and repairing our old cars and such.
It's the same, a hobby witch some people thinks are strange.

"Why don't you just buy a new car?" = "Why don't you just buy a new PC?"

Because we like our hobby, that's why :-D

Ford TAUNUS? I will have to look that one up. They never had that particular model here in Canada! Taurus yes, but that was a low end economy model. My buddy is into restoring the old Buick's like the GSX and the Stage one cars. He spends most of his weekends in the Auto reckers's yard. I wish they had junk yards here for computer parts. Here we are not allowed to take anything form the dump and there are littrally walls of monitors and tower units lining the dump road. :boohoo: