Poll - is anyone a new Amiga user?

[quarkx]

YES, I am a new Amiga user. I just got into the Amiga within the last year. I got into the scene because I inherited a A1000, and A500 when a friend's father (who was a big Amiga fan) past away and knew I would love it, being the computer geek I am. I have been hooked ever since. I admit I am still learning the software end, but I am having too much fun with the hardware and have gotten a couple of A2000's since.

[quarkx]

tone007 wrote:
I imagine anyone interested enough in computers but bored with the current stuff (and it is fairly boring) might be interested in playing with some old, interesting technology for fun.

Too true!
I came from a TRS 80 Color Computer background. Even though the CoCo is a fascinating platform, and has a Unix, multitasking OS (Microware's OS '09), there was only so far you could go with the MC6809 processor. Factor in the cost of a simple floppy drive expansion will cost well over $100 these days (the only real expensive piece of hardware). You find that it gets you only so far. If Tandy would have brought out a CoCo 4, and upgraded to a true 16 bit processor (MC68000) and put an internal 3.5 " floppy and put a full size keyboard with a nice GUI to OS09, what would you have gotten?- Oh wait! - A A500!!!! :lol:

[quarkx]

quarkx wrote:

Too true!
I came from a TRS 80 Color Computer background.

So Sorry, I forgot to mention, that over in the UK, the CoCo was rather non-existent. But they did have the Dragon, and that's basically the same computer as the CoCo. In all my CoCo collecting, I never did manage to hunt down an NTCS Dragon, even though there is or was a US retailer that still has NOS USA dragons for sale. Oh well.