Severe resurgence in interest?

[benJamin]

@agafaster:

 :lol:

[Plaz]

I'm guessing most Amiga users are in the 25-35 year range.

There was a thread around here some where from last year on the subject. (May have been a poll too) Turned out that among the folks who responded, there was a pretty good spectrum. Ages ranged from teenage to retirement. If I recall the wide median fell around the 35-55 range. But no matter the age, once you're part of the collective, you can never leave. :lol:

BTW 43 for me.

Plaz

[6]

arkanoid wrote:
It's just because we (Amiga users from the past) are hitting that age-group where we long for any aspect of our youth :-) I'm guessing most Amiga users are in the 25-35 year range.

I guess there are many of us hitting the 30 year mark these days and 30 is retro "I miss being a kid" nostalgia time! :-)

I'm 60.  Amiga is the only computer I feel completely involved in.  I would never think of treating a pc the way I have my Amigas, taking them apart, putting them back together, monkeying with hardware and software.  I'm not a techno but folks have told me I know a lot more about computers than I let on.  I can only thank the simple machine.  By thinking how an Amiga works I can sometimes figure out what is going on in pcs.  At least I used to be able to.  My tech has said I'm one of the very few of his clients who actually tries to figure out any problems before I take it to him.

It's like my old Karman Ghia.  I understood its mechanics.  I don't know what to think about current cars with their computer operations.  That is, of course, the hope of auto manufacturers.  It keeps down the shade tree mechanics and you've got to take the car somewhere with a diagnostic computer.

[jkirk]

36 in august fer me(i guess that makes me 35 now don't it :-) )


anyway i got my a500 in '91 and then bought a used system 3months later. always had my eye on the 2500 but could never afford one(even after the release of the 3000) i used my a500 exclusively until '99 when i bought my first pc compatible system.

i am still waiting for that revival that was promised so many years ago.

[Fester]

@6,

Enjoyed reading your post. My dad was very nostalgic about his Karman Ghia.

Seems I've experienced the hope of auto manufacturers you mention. For some reason, the diagnostic tools seem to work better at the dealership. The mom and pop shops are always limited or one version behind.

Tinkering in PCs is just as fun as tinkering with Amigas in my opinion, but my interest in classic Amigas has been on the rise recently. ...The collective A-mind I suppose ...

Fester

[benJamin]

I wonder what Orson Scott Card thinks of all the hive-mind references.  And do I want to be destroyed by Ender and Bean?

jaminJay
"This world is running riot.
This world ignores the violence.
This world can't see that we're as one.
This world?  I think our time has come."

[rdolores]

I am 46 now. I got my first Amiga, an A1000, back in early 1986 when I was about 25 years old. It was the first computer I felt comfortable with. Previously in college, my only experience with computers was typing programs on dumb terminals, then taking the program, which was on a stack of cards to be processed to see if the program worked. So the Amiga was a real advance for me.
I later got an A2000 which I upgraded with RAM, a hard drive and an A2630 accelerator. I used my Amiga for writing, composing music (Deluxe Music, MIDI) and desktop publishing with ProPage and PageStream. It was the first computer I ever made a buck with: $15 to design a one-page menu, I believe.
I used Amigas continuously until about 1995, then switched over to Windows for job reasons.
I returned to Amigas a little over a year ago, first with Amiga Forever (Cloanto) 2005, then bought my first AGA machine, an A1200. Finally, I succeeded in building an Amithlon which is the closest thing to a modern Amiga that I have.
The Amiga is what got me into my present career, Computer Technical Support for Currency Exchange company. I learned about Operating Systems, GUI's, hardware first on the Amiga, then was able to transfer the knowledge to PC's, DOS and Windows as well as Macs.

[amigadave]

Fester wrote:
@6,

Enjoyed reading your post. My dad was very nostalgic about his Karman Ghia.

Seems I've experienced the hope of auto manufacturers you mention. For some reason, the diagnostic tools seem to work better at the dealership. The mom and pop shops are always limited or one version behind.

Tinkering in PCs is just as fun as tinkering with Amigas in my opinion, but my interest in classic Amigas has been on the rise recently. ...The collective A-mind I suppose ...

Fester

1970 convertible Karman Ghia/Yellow w/black top completely stock.  Boy, I wish I had not sold that car!

Speaking of cars, I just bought a new Dodge Nitro R/T SUV truck because I liked my wife's Nitro SLT so much.  I have not had so much fun driving a car since I was 20 and owned a brand new Mazda Rotary Engine P/U truck with real big fat tires all around.  Loved racing that truck and beating many big V-8 Detroit cars at the time (camaros, mustangs, old GTO's).  From 0 to 80 that Mazda was hard to beat.  I don't race any more, but love the features and looks of my new Nitro, like the inverter and back seat outlet to plug in an Amiga and play it on the composite inputs to the headliner mounted TV.