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Offline TjLaZer

Re: New user in Illinois
« Reply #14 from previous page: May 11, 2006, 09:12:22 PM »
Well the A1000 is really old and you wont be able to do much modern stuff with it (like go onlin and surf the web, or open word/rtf documents, play mp3 files or PDF files)  A updated A2/3/4000 with latest OS and software from Aminet will!  You can get lots of games for it and enjoy them.  But in your case I would try to find a friend close by to help with copying the ADFs (Disk images you get get off the net) to real disks for you.  Enjoy!!
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Re: New user in Illinois
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2006, 10:02:17 PM »
@jnordness

Welcome to amiga.org.  Hope you get your A1000 going.

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Re: New user in Illinois
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2006, 01:17:16 AM »
Yeah, from the looks of it the A1000 is more of a curiosity than a practical machine. I think I will try to search for a more modern machine and in the mean time, see what I can scrounge up for the old 1000. Thanks for all of your input and wisdom. I'm glad I'm not the only one with those concerns.

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Re: New user in Illinois
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2006, 05:06:16 AM »
@jnordness

I think Eric Schwartz lives near there. There should even be a whole Amiga user group. Amigafest and what not.
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Re: New user in Illinois
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2006, 09:05:09 PM »
Where in IL are you? I'm up in Gurnee.
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Re: New user in Illinois
« Reply #19 on: June 09, 2006, 02:23:01 AM »
I am also a new Amiga.org member from Illinois..  I'm up north in Rockford, Il.  I'm also the treasurer of SWRAP, Chicago's C64/Amiga User Group.  

I started out around 1990 with an Amiga 1000, then a 500, and then around 94-95 upgraded to a 2000.  I still have both the 500 and the 2000, although considering I retired the 2000 in 1995 (needed a PC for Comp Sci degree in college) it's stats are probably rather anemic compared to most modern amigas:

A2000
m-tec 68020i accelerator
3-5 mb ram (don't remember exactly;)
2 external floppies, 1 high density
ks3.1 / workbench 3.1  

now I just need a new scsi drive -- my old one died a few years back of "click death."

TW
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