It was 1987 I think, a friend was going to sell me his C128 but then I read about the Atari and thought that sounds far better... Then one day I was in Belfast and went to have a look in a computer shop at the Atari, they had an Amiga showing the Newtek demo reel 1 with HAM pics, I was completely gobsmaked - forget the Atari!
I couldn't afford an A500 (they were 700 GBP at the time) but I later found somewhere selling old French A1000's cheap, so I got one of those - complete with stickers over the keys!
I later got an A520 20MB HD and 2MB RAM upgrade which plugged into the A1000 backwards and made a lot of noise. I also changed the CPU for a 68010.
Then in about 91 I got an A500+, later I went to an A1200 and a 60MB HD. It also got a 50MHz 030, Zip and Jaz drives. I still have it but haven't used it in years.
I got an A1000 in 2002 in France this time but this time with US keyboard - go figure. I was messing with it the other night, I finally found a driver for Radeon video capture in BeOS and was checking it out.
