How old are you and when was your first "Amiga Experiance"?

[marcfrick2112]

Age 37:
 First Amiga Experience: 17(?) years old at a friends' who strangely was an Atari ST fan. One day, he has an A500 next to his beloved Atari 1040ST. Didn't actually think much of the 500, until he loaded up Adventure Construction Set... and I heard what actually sounded like trumpets coming from a computer, in stereo no less! Then he showed me DPaint...
In April 15, 1988 I bought an A500 bundle with my first Tax Refund Sadly, my 500 is no longer with us, but my 1200's, 4000's, and CD32 keep its' memory alive.....

[AeroMan]

Hi,


    I´m 34. My first contact with the Amiga was in late 1990, with a borrowed A500. I had just switched from a Sinclair Spectrum compatible to a 386 with a green monitor, and I found it so crappy compared to 8 bit stuff that I thought computing future was doomed. Then I´ve found the Amiga, and got really happy !!
    I´ve managed to get a brand new A1200 in 92. They were expensive, because Brasil had a law in the 80´s and early 90´s forbidding to import computers and also forbidding foreign companies to produce then here. No Amigas, no Macs, no Ataris, no 64´s...

[DrWhoop]

33 now (34 next week),

Bought my first Amiga when I was 17-18 y.o. Owned a C64 before that. Still have all of it today...   :-D

[AndyC]

29 (30 in December)

First experience was in 1990 playing Speedball 2 on my friend's A500 (with the 512k RAM expansion).

Got my first and only Amiga (A1200) for Christmas 1992.

Staunch advocate of the Amiga, although in a moment of weakness I got my first PC in 2000...

AC

[RRunner]

I am now 36.
It was back around 1985 when I was about 14.

I saw the A1000 advertised in a computer magazine. A few months later I bought one! I added on the front mem expansion as well as an additional 2Mb internal mem expansion. There were a few of us at high school with them but things got interesting when I went to university where I bought an A2000 and put in a GVP 030/40Mhz accel. There were a LOT of us at university with Amigas. Ahhh... the good old days.

The old A2000 is still set up after all these years for my kids to play on. My 9 yr old loves it.

[adonay]

Hi i gues i was around 5 years old :huh: when my brother forced me to play on the amiga 500 :boohoo: (moonstone and baberian) "at the time was more interested in playing outside" some years passed my brother upgraded several amigas mainly amiga 500 and 1200 computers . He lost interest well were i took over with making aminet hacks etc at the age of 12 :eureka: .. bought my OWN first amiga when i was 18. I am now 24 and own around 8 amiga 1200 with several expantions etc ...    

[Krusher]

Good lord.. I only know my age for shure!  :lol: (which is 34 btw)

Must have been around 1989, an Amiga 500.
Last one I owned was a 1200 and in between various 500's, 2000's, and a 600

Before that I started on a C64 and I never stopped on computing since.

[dfreniche]

Age: 35
1st Amiga experience: 2 years ago, with an A500 I bought out of curiosity...
Now addicted. 2 A1200, 1 A600, 1 A500, ...
I started computing with AMSTRAD.

[Gwion]

Age: 13
My first Amiga(s) where the A500,A1200 and CD32 i bought them at a carboot for £3 each on the same day and all on one stall. It was in 2004 so i was 10, I have been hoocked since i played Dark side on the A500 i havent upgraded the machines unless you count adding a HD to the A1200. I have added a A500+ to the collection but i really want a "big box" amiga but since im 13 cash is a bit hard but whatever money i get is either on Michael Jackson merchindise/records or computers! Im very retro but im still a bit of a noob. Im desparate for a A2000 or A4000 at the moment i love them but just allot of money on ebay right now I hope fully will have a upgraded A2000/A4000 on my birthday on March 29.

[AJCopland]

I'm 28 and I guess I'd have been 8 or 9 when I first played on a friends A500. I remember It totally blew me away. It was just such an amazing machine but it was a few years before I got one of my one. The one I first owned was my friends machine and I got it because he was selling it to get something newer, I think he got a A1500 or A200. Doesn't matter, that was my first Amiga.

I've still got it too! :-D Though the 512KB expansion for it has had some nasty battery leakage and needs a good clean before I attach the new battery I bought from AmigaKit. The machine itself is still going strong.

Andy

[pixie]

Age:29

First "Amiga Experience": I think it was around 1990-91 when I first got my A500

[sandpiper]

Age: 46

First Amiga experience: 1987 when I saw a friend's Amiga 1000. At the time I couldn't decide whether I should buy an Apple IIc or 8088 clone. The decision was easy after seeing the Amiga in action. I immediately bought an Amiga 500. I have owned Amigas ever since and now own a microA1, A3000 and A2500. I wish I had kept my original A500 though.

btw, seem to be a lot of us still around from near the beginning 1986/87. Nice to see.

[Ken86Stang]

Age 33

Started out with a C64, Saw my first Amiga at my friends house in 1989?  Showed me Shadow of the Beast, and I was hooked.  Went out and got a 500, became a Sysop on some of the Local CNet boards, got out of the scene and gave all my stuff away (A500,A1000,A2000,A1200, ect..)

Now just getting back into them!

[kamiga]

AGE then: 12 (AGE NOW: 33)

First experience was with a friend whose parents just bought him a brand new tricked-out Amiga 1000.

He was mad, when just a couple years later, I purchased my Amiga 500 that had more memory, Kickstart in ROM instead of on floppy, etc.

I would have been 13, just turning 14 when I got my Amiga 500.

Without sounding cheesy, the impact of the Amiga on my youth and subsequently my life is practically indescribable.  While I know others with PCs have similar sounding stories, the mere fact that the amiga wasn't standard meant that you had understand the technology to use the technology effectively.

"got nerd history, stories for days"  Back in the Day, by Futuristic Sex Robotz.  If you are old-school, the song is awesome and available for free legal download
 
Thanks

Keith

[Darwin]

Age 62.  First Amiga experience was about 1989 or so, when my stepdaughter sent us an A600.  Prior to that was the usual Commodore PET, C-64, etc.

[Caveman]

Age 36

First Amiga experience 1985/86(can't remember exatly when(Amiga 1000)) At the time i was testing a Amstrad PC(of some sort)at a computer retail shop,when the employee's at the shop,mounted up an Amiga 1000 next to me. When they started up Deluxe Paint,i was amased,and will never forget this moment!

First Amiga owned(1987) Amiga 500(with Kickstart 1.2)