I met Amiga on a department store in late 80's, about '88 or '89, but I never got one on such decade. Later, on '93, a friend of mine bought one A500. That was the first Amiga I touched, and that was also the first one I owned. Well, when he gave It to me, It was totally destroyed... He gave me a dead motherboard (full of soldered wires), the upper and the lower covers whit some holes from his experiments, and a dead power supply, no shielding cover, no screws, no floppy drive and no wires... Not too much. I just stored these parts... Until this year, when I started my restoration project (I'll post It later). Now It's a full working "black" Amiga.
My first working amiga was, and still It is, an A500+ I bought on ebay on '98.
It was a dead one, but I managed to get It working. Quite simple, just clean some chip's rusted legs. There was no power supply, but I fixed the dead one I got (replacing some faulty caps). I don't remember from where the mouse came, but I guess I got It for free...
So I'm a '90 user...
Edit:
I forgot to mention I've got an A600 I bought on ebay circa 2003...
I alsow own two C64, one is a nacked board from the same guy who gave me the A500 (also dead), and the other one from ebay, bought as not working, I don't remember the date, but It was cheap.
The first one has a dead PLA, but working VIC. The last one, has a working PLA, but a dead VIC... I bet you guess how I fixed one of them
Now, I bought a VIC on ebay, and I'm working on a CPLD replacement for the PLA... just for fun
