Just a quick introduction

[Tsargon]

Hi!

Just a quick introduction.  I'm back to the Amiga scene after a long hiatus.  I purchased my first Amiga, an A2000 with dual floppy drives and the A2088 bridgeboard, while in college in the summer of 1990.  I still have the machine as my primary Amiga, but I have since added a GVP G-Force 030 board with a 50 MHz 68030, 68882 and 16 MB of RAM, a handful of various SCSI drives and a recently purchased XSurfer ethernet board.  I also made the jump into the AGA world with a recent purchase of a nice A1200HD off eBay.  The only mod on it is a PCMCIA NIC and a RAM expander with 4/8 MB (depending on whether I'm using the PCMCIA or not!).

I fell away from the Amiga around 1997, but got back into it after starting a retro computer collection.  To the above machines and my original Commodore 64, I've since added a KIM-1, a VIC-20, a Plus 4, a 128D, a Silicon Graphics O2, a Mac SE/30 (sadly with a busted CRT!) and a Sinclair ZX81.

I'm a full time software engineer and I cut my teeth programming on that old C-64.  I still enjoy hacking on the old machines as you can actually get to know the machine, unlike today's boxes that try to abstract everything away from you.  I absolutely love those old machines!  I've since gone through four different IBM PCs and got rid of them, but I just can't give up my old Commodore machines!

Thanks for you time!

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Tsargon

[amigadave]

Welcome to A.org, the best Amiga site on the net.

Stick around and visit a while.

[pierre]

sweet, welcome back , holms! BTW I also collect SGI (octane's mainly) check www.neckochan.net for info on that O2 you have.  You can ask me too, but I'm no genius.... anyway, amigas are tons of fun, what kind of stuff are you interested in?

[marcfrick2112]

Hi, a second welcome to Amiga.org. Many very helpful people
here Just curious, where did you get the Silicon Graphics
machine? How expensive was it? I really would like one to
play around with for graphics, assuming I could find/afford the
software....

[Tsargon]

marcfrick2112 wrote:
Just curious, where did you get the Silicon Graphics machine? How expensive was it? I really would like one to play around with for graphics, assuming I could find/afford the software....

No idea.  It was donated to my collection from a friend who was moving from his parents house into a much smaller studio apartment.  I can ask him when I see him next.  I currently have NetBSD 3.0 loaded on it and I'm working on getting PostgreSQL so as to use it on a project as the database server.  I looked at loading IRIX on it... the CDs weren't too bad, but the license was a bit steep for me just for hobby purposes!

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Tsargon

[tonyvdb]

Hi Tsargon, Lots of new and returning Amiga users this week  :-D
Welcome back, If you have any questions feel free as there are a hole bunch of people on here with lots of knowlage.

Remember that a dimb question is a question not asked.

[pierre]

@marcfrick2112
SGI gear is all over eBay, cheap... sometimes cheaper than amiga stuff.  Let me know if you are serious.  the real problems with SGI is that you have to know what your doing, installing the OS can be serious buisiness.. as is finding software.  The hardware is cheap.  Again take a look at www.nekochan.net, it a cool site, they can converted many linux apps to IRIX and there are many experts there.  It can be confusing becasue there are tons of variations on hardware.  I like the octane and octane2... skip the o2.. the indigo2 is a great classic box and dirt cheap.  The amiga is in so many wasy the little bother of the SGI gear.  YOu can run lightwave 5.6 and tv paint on IRIX,  it so niffty.  Also blender is still prted to IRIX.  Anyway they are very cool machines , esp of your an amiga person looking from something a bit more powerfull.