Your new Amiga - what peripherals came first?

[Hyperspeed]

Okay so you bought your new Amiga, you have fond memories of the
bundle - but in the following months/years what extras did you buy for
it and in what order?

I got a hard disk for my stock A1200, then printer, accelerator/RAM,
modem then SCSI setup with drives and scanner.

I never did get a GFX card as for A1200 it was like stroking a cat
from arse to head.

:-D :-D :-D

[odin]

For A500, nothing but a KCS PowerPC x86 emulation board. For my later A1200 I got respectively a whopping 80MB HD, a Microtec (I think) 030 board with some mem, an 800MB HD, a CD-ROM drive, a 14k4 modem, an A3000T case for towering it, p5 BlizzardPPC (040, no SCSI), a Micronik flimsy plastic tower with Z2 board, a BVision oh and a bigger (4,3 gig) HD somewhere along the way which fried this year.

And in september I got my first A4000 :-). The PPC A1200T is going on sale shortly.

[Vincent]

I got my Amiga, 030, 16MB ram and a 2.4GB hard drive all in the one week.  In that order I think.  All in 1997.

About a year after that it was a 52x CD-ROM with IDEfix97, then in 2003 (I think) the Eyetech EZ-Z4 Tower with an SD/FF (I already had an ancient PC monitor).  Then it was a free 20GB HD from my mum (she was getting a new PC, so I got hers as spare parts :-D ), then a new 040/25.

Finally I got a BPPC 603e/175-040/25 and BVision just a few weeks ago.  Hopefully I'll be getting a new monitor for next to nowt soon too :-D

[adolescent]

Good topic.  

Over the period of 4-5 years.

A500 + 1084S (same day)
A501
Roctec FDD
A570 CD-ROM (with included motherboard upgrade)
Dataflyer SCSI + 120M SCSI HD
M-Tec 68020i + 4M RAM

Fun system.  Sold or gave everything away.  The Roctec floppy is still in my storage.

[the_leander]

Hornby Turbotouch 360 joypad for my A500. To my mind, the best single pad I have ever used on any platform.

The A500 came preinstalled with a 512kb ram upgrade. Nothing else was added to it, I bought an A1200 instead :-D

[tomekm]

A stock C= A1200 with C=1084;)  <- May '97
->
Eslat 1204 (4MB Fast+RTC)
20 MB 2,5" PraireTek HDD  )
Toshiba x4 CD-ROM
Amiga M1438S
Seagate ST3660A HDD (520MB)
ADAX PC Midi Tower
x32 CD-ROM
M-Tec 1230/28RTC+8MB Fast
Kickstart 3.1
Seagate ST32177A HDD (1200MB)
Elbox 1230LC/40+8MB Fast
x40 CD-ROM
Apollo 1240/40MHz, 32MB
+16MB (=48)
PC Big Tower
Caviar 34300 (4GB) HDD
+32MB (=64)
CD-RW
Samsung SV0842 HDD (8GB) <- just a few days ago,

!!!EDIT!!!

now i got:
BlizzardPPC 603e/160MHz, 040/25MHz
i am looking for oscillators, especially for 040:)


so currently it looks like:

A1200
PowerPC IBM 603ev/160
MC68040/25MHz  
2MB Chip, 64MB Fast
8 GB Samsung HDD
x48 CD-ROM
x12 CD-RW
Adapted PC BigTower
Amiga M1438S display
DD floppy:)

[PMC]

@Odin,

I was always intrigued by that KCS PC board.  Was it the best of both worlds at the time?

Anyway, for my A500 upgrades were as follows in order of purchase:

April 1990: Commodore A501 512Kb RAM expansion
June 1990: Mastersound sampler
December 1990: Power Computing double external FDD
February 1991: Philips CM8833 MkII

I bought my A1200 in January 1994 and kept it standard for a few years:

March 1997: Western Digital 420Mb Hdd
May 1998: Apollo 1240 25Mhz, 16Mb RAM
June 1998: Squirrel SCSI with 2x CD ROM
Dec 1999: 4.3Gb Samsung HDD
May 2000: 52x ATAPI CD ROM, 4x buffered IDE interface
June 2000: Eyetech EZKey XS
June 2000: 66Mhz Oscillator ;-)
Sept 2000: Mediator 1200, ViRGE
Oct 2000: Power Tower
Dec 2000: Voodoo 3, 80Mhz oscillator, extra SIMM socket

[nex4060]

Bought an used A500
Slim DD external floppy
Action replay MKII (or was it MKIII)
*sold it*

Bought a new 1200
A used Mitsubishi Monitor 14" + 23pin->15pin converter
Maxtor 256MB HD 3½"
accl. 030 28MHz with FPU 28Mhz and 4MB Fast
Maxtor 1,2GB HD 3½"
*sold it*

Bought an used A4000/040 with 8MB Fast used my 1,2GB HD in it
CyberVision64 4MB ram version
*sold it*

Got a PC *ick*

Bought an used A4000 with
CyberStorm MKII 060 50Mhz 128MB Fast
CyberVision64/3D 4MB
BuddaIDE
put a 15GB IDE HD in it a Plextor IDE CD 40x
Bought a SD/FF for it

[miksuh]

Here is my list from the first to last (I can't remember the exact dates so I don't list those)

My first Amiga was a500:

Standard unexpanded A500 (bought in 1989)
512kb ram expansion
KS2.04
Logitech mouse.
SupraDrive 500XP + 40GB SCSI harddrive + 2MB Ram

I currently have A1200T:

Standard unexpanded A1200 whitout harddrive (bought in 1995)
540MB Seagate harddrive
Wizard mouse
Blizzard 1230 IV 50Mhz + 16MB SIMM
NEC Multisync 3D CRT
Apollo 1240 40Mhz
Apollo 10Mbit PCMCIA NIC
Canon BJC-210
New internal keyboard (old's cable damaged)
ALPS 4x 4CD Changer
Infinitiv Tower + ZII-busboard
10GB IBM DeskStar harddrive
10MBit PCMCIA NIC (old died)
Blizzard 1260 50Mhz
64MB SIMM
AmigaOS 3.5
AmigaOS 3.9
ADI 15" CRT
Mediator PCI busboard
New PSU
Voodoo 3 3000 PCI
10Mbit PCI NIC
SoundBlaster 128 PCI
New PSU (old died)
LG 52x24x52x CDRW
Hercules SmartTV PCI
New A1200 motherboard (old destroyed by the lightning)
Nokia 447Za 17" CRT
External ADSL modem

[Varthall]

When I bought my AmigaOne mobo, I bought also everything I needed to make it a complete system. Later when I read that the onboard sound wasn't working, I had to buy a Soundblaster PCI 128

Varthall

[carls]

For my A500+ I got a memory expansion and an external diskdrive. I still use that drive, excellent quality.

I bought my A1200 with a 120MB hard drive, the first expansion was a DKB Cobra 030/28Mhz with 4MB of RAM.

[whabang]

A Perfect-Sound sound sampler.

[Chunder]

Hyperspeed wrote:I never did get a GFX card as for A1200 it was like stroking a cat
from arse to head.

:-D :-D :-D

What do you mean? It gets annoyed, and bites you? :-)

My A600 was loaded with extra RAM and a HD from the start, so the only "upgrade" that got was an AMAS2 sampler/MIDI interface.

My A1200 acquired the following:
Hard disk
Accelerator/RAM
Bigger hard disk
CD-ROM
Printer
KS3.1
Eyetech Tower + external keyboard interface
Single-slot Zorro-II adapter + CV64/3D
Flicker fixer/Scan doubler + monitor switch
PPC accelerator/RAM
BVision
SCSI HD and CD-RW

Technically it isn't the same A1200 all the way through; I've had three mobo's with different revisions over time! :-)

[Turambar]

As i got my first a500 second hand the first peripheral i bought was a mouse that worked.

[X-ray]

My peripherals have been 'adopted' by subsequent Amigas.

1) First got an Amiga 500, followed by a RAM expansion, followed by an external floppy.

2) Had an A600 for two weeks, ditched that, got a B2000. Then got a Canon BJ230 A3 bubblejet.

3) Got an A1200. Still had the printer and external floppy. First upgrade: a Microbotics 030 and a 68882 FPU. Then a Squirrel SCSI and an external 1gb SCSI drive. Finally (after years of TV use) I got a second-hand Philips monitor for the A1200.

4) Big sell. Sold it all, except the external SCSI drive and some joysticks and software, and the printer (still got it).

5) Got the A4000T and M1438s monitor and lots of upgrades:

Cyberstorm MK II 060
Lola 2000 Genlock
Vidi 24 RT Pro digitizer
Technosound Turbo II audio digitizer
CD-Rewriter (that went into an external case)
External SCSI Zip 100
CyberSCSI module for MKII

And finally, recently, I got the Big Three:

DKB3128 (128mb on it now)
PIV (with Concierto and Paloma)
PPC card (604e/233, 060)

and spares:

030 CPU card for testing
AT PSU (new old stock, bought for £6)
A2000 Keyboard

My next purchases:

Spare floppy (HD preferred)
Mouse adapter (so I can use PC mouse from early-startup)
Pablo card (if I can find it, for PIV)
PPC Cybervision (as a spare GFX card, if it comes up reasonable price)

I also want to design a brand-new case, because mine is dented, has a few scratches underneath, and the bezel is yellowed. Also, the A4000T is not a nice case to open and is very heavy. I'm sure I can design a better one and just get the backplane laser cut to my specs.