Hi
This is my first post and I was just thinking of the time I bought my Amiga 1200. Well to be honest it wasn't mine it was a Christmas present for my daughter, who luckily for me didn't (as it turned out) like computers. So by about March the next year I found myself in awe of this strange machine I had inadvertingly bought for her. Little did I know it then but I was morphing into a fully fledged Amigan.
The buying of Amiga based magazines was next on the agenda which I found of great help. And through the contacts in the magazine's it wasn't hard to realise that this was more than a computer it was in effect a movement. I had at the time taken a P.C. based computer course in a local college using Windows which in all honesty I found to be a joke of an O.S. compared to the 1200. This was brought home the most to me by the multi-media functions of the P.C. at that time which was nil. But the 1200 was light years ahead of anything else on the market including the Mac.
I was trying to do something in animation on the P.C. in class one day and asked the tutor to help me. After a short while he said that what I was trying to do was a cross platform function that I would have to start in one application and transfer to another. But when I explained that on the Amiga it was a walk in the park he refused to believe me. So the next day I brought in my 1200 and showed him and the rest of the class the operation the P.C. had such an issue with. With in a week in a class of 10 five had bought 1200s plus the tutor. Alas the Amiga was left to the wind and the coldness of the crew who took over the platform and strangled it. Just think what it could have been if it had been given the chance to evolve.
Oh yes some say that the Mac is the new Amiga but to me that is just not the case. The Amiga was without doubt the best idea in computing on a muti-media platform bar none. Sadly as it transpired, the people in charge of it were for the most part a gang of get rich quick merchants who could see no further than their wallets.
Nedsir
