What was your amiga like in 1994 ?

[Buzzfuzz]

Two Amiga 500's with Action Replay, drives, 2 1084 monitors, joysticks and loads of disks.
No money for anything else, was a broke student in that time
 
And these days I just about own every model there is, even the most wanted A4000 which in that time still cost a fortune.

[Buzzfuzz]

Hi,
Just throw all those old computers out. Don't worry they are all in the garage.

As long as there stored dry, and reasonably warm, and batteries removed, then they should be good yeah.
But if it's cold/freezing and humidity is off the scale then they won't last long and they would probably be dead after few years of storage.

[Buzzfuzz]

Well there you go a snapshot, out of maybe 40 response I believe there was 3 latest model big box Amiga's. Most people had A500's, A1200's which unfortunately were low margin units and people tended not to use Amiga professionaly that often, I did though in MultiMedia presentation at conferences. Amiga was mostly sold as a games/hobby machine which it was great. But better games machines were coming and Amiga would never compete because of lack of investment.

I wasn't expecting a different outcome either.
Use of Amiga's professionaly was usually for local cable news here in the Netherlands and some people used it for multimedia with Scala, but I guess that was very limited cause PC's were much faster those days anyway.

[Buzzfuzz]

Not quite, from my personal experience...
 
Any clients who came to visit my premisses were totally blown away with the graphics capabilities of the old A500s and thought that these machines were totally amazing in comparison to the green screen PCs they were still using back then. Just goes to show how far ahead the Amiga was way back then.

But that was 88, 6 years further in 94 there were more and more pc's, Amiga's became very rare in businesses.
Maybe not in the UK, but here in the Netherlands I didn't see them anymore.
Then again the UK sold 30 times more Amiga's than Netherlands and Belgium combined.