My first amiga came in 1989. I had been a longtime user of the tandy color computer and it became clear that was no upgrade path from that after the coco 3. I knew I wanted to jump from 8 to 16 bits but I was hating on the pc and mac. Coco with os9 (not mac os9) could multitask like crazy so I knew I wanted something that could multitask.
I did some research and found amiga's os to be the best out there.
First, I got a friends amiga 1000 as he upgraded to a 2000. When he first showed me the graphics and sound on the 1000, I was blown away.
Later, I got an a500 because there were more upgrade components for it at the time. Eventually, when soundblaster became 16 bit and svga came,
because I did so much music, I had to switch to pc to get 16 bit sound and the ability to burn my music to cd.
I kept that a500 and even with a pc as my pain computer, it still saw years and years and years of use. I still play some games on it occasionally. I remember I think I paid 300$ for it originally but when I think about how much I used it, I really got my money's worth!
Steven
