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Offline tokyoracer

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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2008, 12:25:04 AM »
I think my first one (A1200 with 85Mb HD) from One Step Beyond from about end of 1992 start of 1993.
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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2008, 12:31:30 AM »
I got my first a500 from some small local shop here in Norway. My mom knew the owner, so we got a special deal with a free zipstick and a game of our choice. I sadly was young and immature back then, so i ended up getting Turtles.  :-(
 

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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2008, 12:34:25 AM »
Bought an Amiga 500 Rev. 5 second hand from a guy in 1993 when I got back from my first road trip in my first car.  He did some kind of molecular biology and music (still have a lot of his work on floppy.)  Had a fully populated 4MB BaseBoard (which someone here bought from me a few years ago,) an extra floppy drive, a butt-load of games (except Shadow of the Beast, which is really why I wanted an Amiga!) and some programming manuals.

A couple of years later I got hold of an A500+HD8 with a whopping 20MB hard drive and another 4MB of RAM.  I had 8MB in that baby -- SCREAMIN'!

I've never looked back since.
 

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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2008, 12:36:03 AM »
My first Amiga was an A500 with a 1084S monitor (still have it, still working flawlessly) on 24 March 1991 from a local computer shop in Chania, Crete, Greece. The price? About 240.000 drachmas (about 700 euros).

But of course you can't compare the prices now (2008) and the ones from 1991. 700 euros back in 1991 where a lot of money.
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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2008, 12:50:42 AM »
@Phantom

Expensive? :) They must have done well, are they still around? I'm going to Crete next wednesday, so any good tips are welcome. I'm going with my gf and 9 year old son.
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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2008, 12:56:16 AM »
@ arnljot

Hehehe, in which part of Crete island you will "land"?
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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2008, 12:58:54 AM »
An $800 A1000 from a musician who was switching to Mac living out in a very rural area in Western Maine around 1992.
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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2008, 01:05:43 AM »
Wildflecken, Germany- 1989.
 

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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2008, 01:10:04 AM »
@Phantom
We're landing the 16th at Heraklion, and flying out the 30th from Chania. We're staying one week in Agia Marina, then one week in Agia Gallini.

Looking forward to it. Never been to Crete before, only three times to the Cyclades Islands, island-hopping. Each time landing at Santorini, and making sure to spend some time on Anti Paros.

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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2008, 01:21:24 AM »
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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...


At that time I was in Newark NJ and they had and still have a massive Portuguese and Brazilian community. The Brazilians loved the Amiga becuase it was ok to bring it back to Brazil as the A500 was under a certain allocated value of $300 (I think) that you can take into Brazil and get through customs OK. Dudes would take the A500, a girlfriend would take a hard drive attachment, another pall would take the ram, floppy, etc. Pretty funny.

My tax man was a Brazilian and he'd recommend all Brazilians buy Amigas to take back to Brazil, pretty cool.

Plus what you got for $300 compared to say a PC was pretty damn good value.
 

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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2008, 02:33:15 AM »
I bought my trusty a600 around 1995 i think, bought it for about 50 dollars from a friend, most of the disks were water damaged, but north & south worked periodically, so did lotus, and the keyboard ribbon cable was damanged. After brushing dust off it again a few years ago, i discovered the community, amigakit and amigashop.com wanted the accelerator from jens, so i could use it as a mp3 player in a car. My amigas has since probably become the most expensive computer i got. I later got the a4000 and an a1200, i do most of my tracking on the 1200 now, and the a600 is back gathering dust waiting for the accelerator.

I think i actually preferred the c64 over the a600 for some reason and continued using that until it ended up in the attic in a box gathering dust.
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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2008, 02:53:23 AM »
First Amiga,

;BEGIN Nostalgia
B. Dalton's Software, Etc. at Grand Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June or July 1988.... used my first-ever tax refund check to buy an A500, it came with 'Textcraft'  :nervous: , 'Tetris', and 'Where in the @^&! is Carmen Sandiego's Luggage'
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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2008, 03:16:55 AM »
Bought an A500, 1084S and a Vortex ATonce card from TENEX Computer Express in late 1990.

I should have invested the cost of the ATonce in some other piece of hardware, tho.  What did the A2000 cost at that time?
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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2008, 03:49:33 AM »
An Amiga 500, used from Star tech, Massena, NY in the spring of 1991 when I was attending SUNY Potsdam. Which was soon joined with a GVP harddrive/memory expansion. This replaced my 64 with GOES. It was nice being one of the few students on campus with a computer. No crowded computer labs!
 

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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2008, 05:27:21 AM »
I bought my first Amiga 1000 in Coral Gables, Florida at a store called the PC Collection in October, 1985...it was the first day they had machines available for purchase.

Yep, I'm THAT old! :-)
 

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Re: Where'd you buy your First Amiga?
« Reply #29 from previous page: July 09, 2008, 05:50:46 AM »
A500, Batman pack from Dixons.
A4000D - CSMKII//128MB/IDE CF/Indivision Scandoubler
A1200
A1000

(And now a Minimig) :>)