Ah yes I remember them days. I grew up in Santa Clara so I've met a lot of the pioneers of the computer age back then. I got my A1000 in 1986. I loved it. I used it for so long too. My father and worked for a large circuit board manufacturer and did a lot of contract work for the likes of IBM, Atari ect. When I got my A1000 I never left my room much! I added so much to it over the years too. When I sold it to get money for my A3000 its last specs were awsome. I had the Phoenix board in it. 2.0 ROMS, SCSI drives, 1MB Chip RAM, it was a real monster. I still wonder if that sucker is in use. It was so hard to give it up. I remember taking it to the FAUG meetings in Freemont California and people would just look at it and tell me it was an awsome A1000. Oh and I do have another bone stock A1000 here just to have!
