Where'd you buy your First Amiga?

[Crom00]

Got mine in NYC from one of those stores in Midtown Manhattan NYC that sold electronics, porcelain cats, luggage, and rugs. Paid $150 for an Amiga 1000 in 1989.

Before that I bought a commodore 64 in 1984 from this guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivhRPiQueaE

and 2 years before that a Colecovision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXf8oKJ2mu8

[Fester]

Got my first Amiga 2000 in Québec city in 1987 or 88...

[Boot_WB]

Computer Exchange, Princes Avenue, Hull, UK.

A500 Caped Crusader pack - £328 iirc.

Ahh, amazing how it sticks in the memory ;-)

[Nickman]

Bought my A500 from the local Commodore shop here in my town Dont remember the year. Around 94 or something.

Bought my C64 at another local photo shop. :crazy:

[adolescent]

Bought my A500 at Creative Computers, Lawndale, CA during the summer of 1989.  I think I paid $299 for the A500, and another $199 for the 1084S.  I also picked up an A501 clone and a Roctec floppy but I think I might have gotten those a bit later.

[motorollin]

My dad bought our first A500 from a local shop called Colchester Computer Center. I have no idea how much it cost as it was a Christmas present, and I was very young at the time anyway. My dad said that he took it to the station (he was a copper at the time) and set it up and he and his co-workers all played Nebulus, and they were all totally blown away by the graphics, in particular the rotating tower.

I still love that game :-)

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moto

[Nostalgiac]

my A2000 was smuggled over the border from Germany(Aachen) to Belgium.... as it was 60% of the price in germany compared to belgium...

Tom UK

[arnljot]

Bought mine for Babysitter money from a mailorder company.

Can't remember what they were called, but they also gave out an computer hobbist magazine, which later turned into a pure amiga magazine.

They also sold Atari. That's how I became aware of the Amiga. As I first bought an Atari XE64 console which were marked as a computer. Well after butting my head against basic on that one, and quickly getting bored with it's games that were only marginally better than on the Atari2600jr which I'd gotten from my parents. I saw an ad in the magazine which I got from the mail order company since buying my Atari XE.

Having heard that Whiskas (the handle of a friend of mine) had an amiga, I asked to check it out and I immediately fell in love with it. It seemed to kick ass, which it indeed also did.

Thus I spent A LOT more than 8000NOK. In quick succession I bought an Amiga500, 512k extra memory. And shortly after a 120MB GVP HD with 2MB more RAM.

And it served me well. I, Whiskas and AMOS had a lot of fun with that girl....

I remember the downer when the only game we ever had close to finishing were tested on Whiskas' "stock" Amiga with 512k extra fast. And it wouldn't run, "Out of memory". And the Orange screen from AMOS.

Alas, Ducks in Space never survived that hit... Later games that met similar fates where "Monster Bunny" and "Monster Hamster".

We only released on poorly made AMOS demo... Can't remember what it was called. But it was released under the best name our hormone filled brains could come up with: "Crime Software". Later we changed it to "Pan Productions", because we had the idea that the mythical Pan was a guy who had pleny of tail and good reports with the ladies....

Any who... that was a quick trip down memory lane....

[Ken86Stang]

Sun TV in Mentor, Ohio.   1989? I think..

[SamOS39]

A500 for £10 off my friend at school 2004  :-D

[jlariv8957]

It was an A500 Rev 5 in july 1988.

[arnljot]

Timeline

First encounter: Neighbor had a x86 with a helicopter game...

Determination: Mowe lawns and baby sit to earn money for a computer
 
Atari 2600jr: A gift from my parents

Atari XE 64: I got suckered by ads

Amiga 500: I saw the ligth. Xpandet it with GVP 120MB scsi disk with 2MB fast and a 512k fast card with clock.

Amiga 1200: As soon as it became available in norway. I had to have AGA... Though it only had 80MB disk which I soon felt as too small. So I put in a 3.5" disk and a clock card of some sorts with mem. It got replaced with a Blizzard030

Amiga 4000: First second hand amiga. Got beefed up with PPC, PicassoIV, CVPPC, SCSI disk, etc etc. I had it until 2000 or 1999.

iMac: What can I say? I never thougth....

PC: yeah, it happened... Work is to blame, it took the edge off.. But I never managed to settle on an OS.

Amiga 500: It happened... My sisters x were cleaning out the loft last year, and found it. He gave it to me.

2xA1200: Jackpot. One is painted satin black, they will be pimped... 030, CD-ROM, CF HD, picoITX PSU...

A4000: Bought it from netherlands. Flew down and picked it up. It was fun!

MacMini: My day to day torrent, divx and firefox machine.

Now ofcourse, all since PC... back in 2001, there has been WinUAE. But I never really considered it since the amazing AmiKit came around, it kicks ass! Simply love it.

[weirdami]

arnljot wrote:

Amiga 1200:

Though it only had 80MB disk which I soon felt as too small.


So I put in a 3.5" disk and a clock card of some sorts with mem.

That was quite an upgrade.

[AeroMan]

I had a "state of the art" 486 DX that I've sold and then I've bought my A1200 as soon as they hit the market, from a smugler that sold stuff from Paraguai.

Amigas were not legally sold in Brasil up to the early 90's due to the computer reserve law. The law was dropped just some months after I get my Amiga...

[tokyoracer]

I think my first one (A1200 with 85Mb HD) from One Step Beyond from about end of 1992 start of 1993.
Still works fine to this day, even the HD. :-)