My first experiences with amiga were back in 1986 or so. I didn't get to own one until 1992, again an A600, a present from my Mum who could remember my earlier droolings.
I hadn't been into computers for some time, but I was soon hooked again. I got myself an A1200 by the end of the same year.
I still used my A600 right up until a few years ago when it mysteriously died :-(
I used to have it connected to my then 1.28Gb HD 16Mb 040 A1200 via a parallel connection and booted from a custom floppy that launched ParNET. OS2.05 was installed in a folder on the A1200's hard disk and all the assigns and stuff were set there during booting. It was cool :-D
I still have the A600 in the hope I can get it fixed at some stage, but that depends on working out what died in the first place...
