I worked all summer at age 15 to save up $600 for an A500 I bought out of AmigaWorld. It took another month or so to save up the cash for the 1084S (my parents paid half for the monitor). Can you imagine the torture I went through during that month having a new A500 sitting in a box at my house with nothing to hook it up to? This was a 1.2 machine before they came with the A520s.
Great memories, indeed.
Chris