Got my first Amiga 500 in 2001; I'd been searching for a replacement for the Commodore 64 my dear mother gave to Goodwill, and found out about the
other computer Commodore was famous for. Got one off eBay with
Another World and
Ports Of Call and I was hooked. Unfortunately I had to give it up in one of our moves, and I spent a long time without one after that.
Early this year, however, I got in touch with a nice fellow out in Colorado who gave me a 500 setup for the cost of shipping, which I had to sign up with a "gun-friendly" PayPal alternative to provide. Built that up for a while until this fall, when a crotchety old farmer sold me a 2500 (stripped of its accelerator) for a reasonably low price after refusing to sell me absolutely anything else out of his enormous piles of awesome stuff for an amount I could afford. (Seriously! There was a Blizzard 040 in there, and now it's probably gone to the dump :furious:)
I've built the 2500 back up with a larger hard drive, fast RAM, and an accelerator, and that's now my main Amiga. And since the AGA machines don't really hold much interest for me, it'll probably stay that way
