When did you get your first Amiga ?

[dougal]

I got mine at around June 1992 . I was 12 years old .

I was annoyed that my friends had Amiga's and i had a horrible Atari 65XE , so after bugging my parents , I finally got my dad to buy me an Amiga .

I still remember the day :-)

A brand new A500Plus Cartoon Classics pack (with Simpsons,Lemmings & Capt Planet) and a Commodore 1084S .

Never before (or since) had i been so happy with a computer

[arnljot]

It was in my early teens. I'm 32 now, so the amiga was a fairly new thing in Norway.

I bought an amiga 500 from money I had earned babysitting the neighbours kids :-)

[koaftder]

Around '85 my father brought home a macintosh. I was 5 at the time. I remember thinking it was pretty cool. Black and white, had a mouse, choppy graphics. I had the vic-20 to myself at the time i believe. That macintosh lasted a few days before it was returned. My dad brought home an amiga 1000. That machine blew that macintosh out of the water. Lots of colors, fast graphics, fun games.

[RRunner]

Must have been the late 80's. Bought an A1000. I think I was in grade 10. Had a C=64 when I was in grade 8 I think it was. Got an A2000 when I got to university (still have it) and later an A500.

[save2600]

I already spilled my guts on my first (computer) love affair here on A.org (A1000 that my parents chipped in half for Christmas '87), BUT... what's ironic to koaftder's post is that my dad had a friend that was an Apple rep. Literally had a Volvo wagon jam packed with various Mac computers, accessories, etc. Anywho... in my teens, I had asked him to check out my new computer. It was an A500 with 1mb ram, a Perfect Sound digitiser, external DD and a 1084 monitor. Showed him a few demos, multitasking and such, how easy it was to digitise audio, the game Sinbad, etc. Needless to say, even though he was sort of a brainwashed Apple guy, he was VERY impressed with what he saw. I remember him taking the mouse and moving it around very quickly and getting a charge out of that. As if he expected the computer to crash or something. Or maybe he was impressed with the refresh rate of the display. I just remember thinking, WTF? lol  15khz is barbaric, but I've never, EVER seen smoother video displayed on ANY computer than the Amiga.

[Crisisdog]

I received an Amiga 500 toward the end of 1987.  Me and my friend at the time both had Apple IIe computers, which were "outdated" by the introduction of the Apple IIgs.  He went with a IIgs for about $2000 at the time.  I was able to pick up my Amiga 500 and a monitor for about $700.  I also acquired software like "Deluxe Paint II" and "Instant Music", which were also available on the IIgs.  I remember him complaining that I was able to use 32 colors compared to his 16, my games ran better with my 512KBs of memory compared to his base 256KBs, and I had the two button mouse, while he had to "Command-Click" for menu options in several applications.  Who would have thought the computer that was a third of the price of the more expensive model would be the better choice?

[the_leander]

Febuary of 1990, was an A500 with their educational package, which included, among other things ProWrite.

First game I played on it was Rick Dangerous. Bought the A1200 When Escom were selling them. Fantastic machine. Later got a CD32 and A3000.

By 2001 however it was clear to me that there was no future in it and switched to BeOS (hah, yeah, totally futureproofed myself there) in 2004 or so.

About 3 years ago I then moved on to Linux and haven't looked back.

But once in a while, at the dead of night, I get that itch.

[NovaCoder]

Last year.

[InTheSand]

Hi,

Was looking to upgrade from the Speccy 128 in 1988, really liked the look of an Amiga but couldn't afford it so went for an ST, then after less than a year, the Amiga came down in price and I started to see more of what it could do, so got my first A500 just before Christmas 1989.

 - Ali

[stevieu]

Having just been to a Thin Lizzy tribute gig and after several pints, it's probably best that I didn't reply to this, and go to bed instead, but what the hell...

I first got my own Amiga in 1995/6. Not a great time, I must say... but regardless of time, using the Amiga changed me forever (I'm sure some people understand what I mean)... (cue the corny comments), but it's true.

Years before that (around 1993 or so), I used to often stay over a friend's house and play on Dizzy, F1GP, Yo! Joe, Jet Strike, etc on their A600...

I was hooked...

I got an A1200  at the aforementioned time and continually upgraded with various bits of hardware (see signature) and lived under the delusion that the Amiga would do well once again in the modern age, under the helm of Bill and Fleecy... but to no avail

For me, the Amiga plight ended when CU Amiga magazine went under. From then on, the Amiga has certainly been a hobby, but I'm proud to be a part of it and its community.

I can only say, I wish that I could have experienced it sooner The Amiga vision will always be a beautiful one and will always hold true in the people that understand it.

Steve

[JimS]

An Amiga 1000, about 1987. Still have it. ;-)  Quite a leap up from the Atari 800 & 800XL I was using.

[cecilia]

I bought my first Amiga April 12th, 1989

that means my baby is 20 years old last month. WOW!

they grow up so fast!!

[smerf]

I got mine at around June 1992 . I was 12 years old .

I was annoyed that my friends had Amiga's and i had a horrible Atari 65XE , so after bugging my parents , I finally got my dad to buy me an Amiga .

I still remember the day :-)

A brand new A500Plus Cartoon Classics pack (with Simpsons,Lemmings & Capt Planet) and a Commodore 1084S .

Never before (or since) had i been so happy with a computer

Hi,

I bought my Amiga 1000 exactly 2 weeks after Commodore first introduced them, it was a great experience since my Otrana CPM emulated PC DOS with a Z80 and an original PC chip (i believe 8088) that emulated a DOS running machine finally expired. I was looking for a DOS type machine that used MSDOS 1.0 since I was programming Lotus 123 spreadsheets and Dbase II & III data bases for Navy, private business and banks. The person at the store assured me that the Amiga 1000 would be able to emulate a DOS machine with either DOS emulator software or a side car. So I laid out $1595.00 and bought an Amiga 1000 with 512K of ram, a supra hard drive card a 5 meg hard drive and then later 2 more meg of ram, for a total cost of about $3000.00. Later about 3 months down the road I bought a 68010 accelerator for the Amiga. This was really a flying system back then, was I disappointed, well at first yes, why did I have to type in df0: instead of just A:, Why did i Have to type in DH0: instead of C: ever try to format a disk with the original Amiga DOS commands, or try to copy a file over from a disk drive to a hard drive with the original Amiga DOS, what a nightmare, but somehow the Amiga grew on me and after about 6 months I thought that this was the greatest machine ever made.

Well I got a little off track anyhow I bought my Amiga 1000 2 weeks after the introduction.

smerf

[bnice]

Well I got my first Amiga in 1998, it was a A500. Brought a A500+, then a A3000. Later my dad brought A1200 and then A4000. I am afraid I am just a UAE user now got the latest to get the DVD version of the videos.

Meet Mr Haynie face to face in 2007 at a birthday celebration for the Commodore PET saw and touched the AAA Nyx board. Later that day drove to the old Commodore HQ, now owned by QVC home shopping. They do tours, which I did but nothing to see of the Legendary Commodore.

Ben.

[orb85750]

Amiga 500 with 1084 monitor in 1988.  I still own both.  The A500
is still mint.  The 1084 does not work at all.  Hmmm.   Well, I have
other 1084 monitors that do.  :-)