Hello All:
I am in Shawnee, Kansas USA. I will be obtaining my A500 new in a box today (Friday, July 2, 2004) and want to learn all there is to know. To that end, I found my local AMUG and will be attending their meetings as time allows.
I am a PC, Macintosh, and Linux user currently, but I fell in love with an Amiga 2500 I believe it was, in 1989, when I finally was ready to purchase the machine, Commadore was gone. So, I bought a Tandy 1000 TX and entered the PC world. In 1995, I bought a PowerMac 7500 and fell in love with the MacOS... still used PCs because of profession, but alas wanted to get away from MS. Still trying, have long since sold off my 7500 and currently use a PC with an Athlon 2800+ (very nice mobo) built myself. But still want to loose MS! The main issues I have had in moving from the Windows platform are a couple of hold out applications and some hardware driver issues.
I am desperately trying to get an amigaOne mainboard and OS4 if possible and have had no luck with the one vendor I know of (Extreme Amiga) as they will not even return e-mails or phone calls about pricing. I have a fairly nice Athlon 2800+ and if OS4 will run on it, maybe its time to switch.. but being a complete newbie to Amiga, I am not sure what (if anything) I would have to do to make this work. I would gladly sell off my Athelon mobo if I could find the AmigaOne G4 and have the OS. I just hope that my printer and scanner work under the new OS. Webcam as well, these are the same items that keep me from running Linux.
I am open to help from anyone who seriously wants to help a new guy out. If you are local to the KC metro area and want to get together and hang out, I am always also open to that! Simply pmail me.
If you are an amiga person and have YIM available, my IM is jmikeneedham@sbcglobal.net and that is indeed also my e-mail address :-)
I welcome meeting new people and hope that I make some friends in the community.
Happy computing!
Mike Needham
Shawnee, Kansas USA
