Besides Amiga, what other platforms do/have you owned?

[amigadave]

I'm still looking to complete my Amiga collection someday.  As of just two weeks ago when I finally obtained an A600, I now only need an A3000T to pretty much have at least one of every kind of Amiga manufactured and sold.  I am not counting the A1500 and A2500 as separate models.  I prefer my G4 Powerbook for virus free Internet and email (even with the recent flak about hacking the wireless connection).

On next Monday I will be taking delivery of a monster Dell desktop with Intel Core Duo and dual video cards, 2GB RAM, etc., etc., etc.  (I got a company purchasing discount of 15% off list price the last week of my previous job and decided to take advantage of it since I needed a new desktop PC for doing CAD)

I will be thinning out my Amiga collection to get rid of duplicates (some triplicates) of hardware and software in the near future, so keep your eyes open here and on eBay.

[pierre]

why is it that mac users are so smug about virus free browsing.  I have browsed with windows for years and NEVER had a virus and there are viruses for osx?  irix has the least I think.  I have no numbers to back this up. :-)

[amigadave]

pierre wrote:
why is it that mac users are so smug about virus free browsing.  I have browsed with windows for years and NEVER had a virus and there are viruses for osx?  irix has the least I think.  I have no numbers to back this up. :-)

I'm not being smug, it is just a choice made due to the odds.  I am not aware of any OSX viruses, so I choose to use it instead of Windows for peace of mind.  If I had a fast modern Amiga web browser and email client, I would use it instead of the Mac, as I imagine the number of hackers writing Amiga viruses are almost nil at this point in time.

[pierre]

yes there are less...but
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39164062,00.htm
can't imagine there are none, false security..
You would hope there are no new virus for the amiga but the lack of a serious browser takes the amiga out of the browser race!  (maybe aweb is just one huge virus?)  
 

[LoadWB]

In best chronological order I can muster:

Computer hardware (owned and used)

TI-99/4A
Commodore 64
Vic-20 (Dead 64 forced this on me for a while)
Commodore SX-64
Atari 800XL
Commodore 128, 128D, and 64C
Amiga 500
MacBook (borrowed from a girlfriend)
Amiga 1000
Amiga 500+
486-DX2/66 (Windows 95/98)
Amiga 4000


Games consoles (owned, played, hacked to some degree)

Atari 2600 *
Sega Genesis/CD
Sega Nomad
NES
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
XBox *
PlayStation
Amiga CD32

* -> the only consoles I owned during its popular lifespan.  All others were acquired well after "death"


Operating Systems (used, not necessarily owned, and not all remembered)

Apple ][ DOS/ProDOS
GEM/TOS (not sure what version, on Atari 520ST)
PC-DOS (IBM PS/2 and PCjr)
MS-DOS 3.3 and so on
Atari DOS/HappyDOS
Vax/VMS
OS/9 (limited exposure, but fun)
GEOS64 1.x, 2.0
IBM System/34
MacOS (really bloody old stuff)
GEOS128 2.0
AmigaDOS 1.3 - 3.9
CP/M+ v3 (Commodore 128)
OS/2
Microsoft Windows 2, 3.11 - XP
Sun Solaris 2.4, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
IBM AIX (not sure what version)
Novell (v2, I think)
Various Linux: Slackware, RedHat, SuSe


Programming languages

Many dialects of BASIC (TI, AppleSoft, Apple Integer, CBM 2 and 7, GFA, AmigaBasic, System/34, and various extended BASICs)
Fortran 77 (Vax/VMS)
COBOL (System/34, CP/M+, PC, and Amiga)
RPG-II (System/34)
Pascal (CP/M+) and Turbo Pascal (PC)
ARexx (Amiga) and Rexx (AIX)
GFABasic (Atari 520ST and Amiga)
6502 machine language (C64)
TMS-9900 machine language (TI-99/4A)
Minimal C, C++ (CP/M+, Amiga, PC, Unix)
Good bit of PHP4
Enough Perl to know better
(I wish I had done more Z80 and 680x0, am working on this)


I think that covers it for me...

[BoingBoing]

1 Modded XBox 200GB HD for games/movies/musics
1 Modded XBox that runs my webserver
1 Pentium 4, Ubuntu
1 Compaq laptop, XP
1 Palm Tungsten E2
and...
my Miggy 1200 (My precious)

Everthing is connected by 2 Linksys wireless routers.

[Dandy]

coldfish wrote:
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What gear have you guys accumulated over the years and what are your impressions of them?

1) Texas Instruments TI 99 4A
2) CBM 620 (wrote a kind of graphical frontend for its DOS 2.2 and ported lots of games from the C64 for it)
3) 2 x A 500 with 020-accelerator & HD's
4) towered A1200 with 030-accelerator
5) towered A4000 with CyberstormPPC/CybervisionPPC, 130 mB,  Mediator, Voodoo4, Spider2 USB 2.0 highspeed, Terratec 512i digital, 10/100 mbit NIC,CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-RW, tape streamer, 160 & 4 gB HDs...