Hello all:
I am actually a long time Amiga user, but new to the platform well after the "death". I was saving money for an Amiga when Commodore called it quits and ended up with a PC instead... then became a Mac user and currently a vintage computer buff using a PC for main day to day stuff.
Currently, I am also an officer in my local Amiga User Group which still meets! It is called Amiga Midwest and has a yahoo group affiliated as well as the core membership which currently numbers 5 members. It had many in the hey day!!! Recently, the Commodore Users Group of Kansas City actually disbanded, I was involved as their President for a while and actually had hoped to merge the two groups as "Commodore Users"... but soon learned about the rivalry that seems to exist between Commodore 64/128 people and Amigans. A little sad to me, but we did get some folks interested in Amigas from that side.
I collect Macintosh (68k) and Amiga and do some retro PC stuff with a Pentium 120 I rescued. Between 1991 and 1994 I ran my BBS (The Electronic Oblivion BBS in Olathe, Kansas) which started out using RemoteAccess 2.02 and now actually is reincarnated as a Major BBS 6.25 BBS, however it is not currently on-line.
Hopefully, I will find a good sense of community here and indeed find other Serial Communication buffs as well as obviously fellow Amiga users.
I love the old Motorola 68K processors in many platforms, as you might have guessed from my opening paragraph. I always loved those and subsequently the PPC chips. I even keep my eye on the modern FreeScale processors that are currently based on the PPC designs. Always loved the architecture and somehow, I still got stuck in Intel land :-D Well, one does have to make a living.
My vocation is that of a programmer. I write code for UNIX and Linux mainly with a current focus on Python. Traditionally, my work has been done in Perl, BASH shell and C-like languages. Interestingly enough, I wrote my first professional application in Apple BASIC on an Apple IIe while still in high school.
Anyhow, I hope to give as much as I get from this community and want to strive to be a good resource for anyone who will listen to my stories and such. Though only 41 (as of now in January 2012), I feel I sometimes channel my grandfather who could very definitely spin a yarn or two.
Hopefully, this has not been too boring and indeed, I welcome other people's stories as much as I will be more than happy to share my experiences and opinions with everyone here.
I hope to be a good friend to all as well.
Finally, I would like to share that I love the Amiga as well as other retro machines and I have never seen a more adamant group than those of the Amiga users. I always envisioned that if Apple ever went under, that those users would be as passionate and stick with the platform like the Amigans did when Commodore pulled the plug... but I think that there will never be users as passionate about their platform as we Amiga folk.
