When did you get your first Amiga ?

[slayer]

I got my first Amiga in very late 1985 (my first ever cpu).

I've never used anything but AmigaOS and I seriously doubt I ever will...

I am pleased to be an Amiga Purist heh

[pyrre]

I got my first A500 in 1986 or 1987, dont remember to well... was 8 or 9 years old at that time...

[Ami_GFX]

In the fall of 1993. I saw an ad in the paper for an Amiga 2500 for $300--a real steal at the time. It came with a 1084s monitor and an assortment of graphics programs and a modem. I was living in the SF bay area and there were several Amiga BBSs at the time and a couple of months later I bought a Digi-view gold/DigiPaint package from one of the sysops which threw me into the world of primitive digital photography. It made me apreciate what 19th century photographers went through. It also caused relationship problems:"You're spending more time with that computer, than you are with me," etc, etc. The Amiga lived up to it's name and my girlfriend of the time was very jealous of it. That girlfriend is ancient history but I still have the Amiga. It was dying a few years ago and I was about to sell it but instead, replaced the motherboard and added a DKB Megachip, a DKB 2632 memory expansion, a 2320 flicker fixer and an EGS Spectrum graphics card, replaced the 1080s monitor with an LCD monitor and brought it into the 21st century. The only thing lacking is more time to play with it.

[slayer]

That's a nice story :-D

Excuse my ignorance however since you mention no cpu accelerator of any kind, I suppose a true B2500 would have come with an 020/030 perhaps?

I remember after I paid off my first A2000 (about $4000.00) I turned around the very next moment and brought an A2000HD, still too green to realise it was just the same thing with a HD added. Sold the A2000 for $2000.00 and signed another agreement for another $4000.00 lol

That A2000 was the only thing Amiga I ever sold to this day

[Ami_GFX]

Excuse my ignorance however since you mention no cpu accelerator of any kind, I suppose a true B2500 would have come with an 020/030 perhaps?

It came with a stock 2630 accelerator with 4mb ram and a 2091 SCSI controller. It still has the original accelerator with the 2632 memory expansion designed for it. I replaced the 2091 with a GVP controller that boots faster and has less problems with SCSI zip drives.

It also came with the original receipts which were for well over $2000, not including the software. When I bought it, it was a super sweet deal.