When did you get your first Amiga ?

[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.  :-)

[Lockon_15]

July 1989, when my parents bought Tiger Edition Rev5 A500. Maybe a better term would be bought and smuggled in, since back then we were not allowed to import home computers at all.
Whatever, I was 15 and just finished elementary with top grades (nerd...not!). Previously I was mostly dealing with ZX Spectrum which made transition to an archrival Commodore a bit tougher than expected.
 
Still got that 1st Amiga, she's in great physical shape and likes to be turned on. Not an unusual description for y 20-year old girl, right?
:lol:

[djbase]

Let me think. I moved from C64 to Amiga very late. Must have been in 1993. It was an Amiga 600 with the games Pinball Dreams (I still love that game) and Barth Simpson vs. The Space Mutants. Cost me 599 DM (today around 300 Euro).

[Nickman]

I think it was summer of 91. Bought my A500 after selling my C64 to a relative.
Saved for ages to afford one. But man was it worth it.

[Colani1200]

1987. A500 with Kickstart 1.2

[Edpon]

I got mine, an A500 with everything available for it at the time, at my first base, which was in Germany, back in 1990. I was always told, by everyone at the time, what an amazing computer it was. They were right! Now, 19 years later, I've made another Amiga Computer purchase - SAM440 Flex, from AmigaKit. I'll find out soon if this one lives up to the hype as well. Hope it's good. Thanks.

Ed

[DiskDoctor]

I got my A500 with tv modulator and 512kB chip/fast extra ram when I was some fourteen, in a year of 1991.

I got rid of it three years later when my hobbies were becoming more to beer and marijuana.  A sad decicion I've been regretting ever since.  But after that, I shared so much hatred and disgust towards the PCs that I got myself one yet in some 1999.

Now I wait for MorphOS for my MacMini PPC, if nothing hapens over the summer, I might eventually end up on Sam.

[Zac67]

Got my A500 in fall '88 when I was about to leave the army and start with studying computer science - it did help a lot to have some experience with multitasking, semaphores and stuff! :juggler:

Follow up was a 3000 (yeah!), various PCs with varying components and just recently a PowerMac 9500/G4.

[motrucker]

Haven't we been here?
If I can remember correctly (I can't) it was about 1987 or 1988 after a Sinclair, Texas Instruments ti/994A, C-64, C-128, C-128D then the A500. We had a very active user group back in those days.
Discovery Software International was located here in Annapolis back then, and was a great help to all of the Amiga users. Thanks to Rick Ross. Those were great days, computer wise.
I bought the fourth A1200 that Arundel Computers got in. Hate to think what I paid for it, but it was a great machine - It's still here, working fine - slightly different configuration though. I still have the original receipt, but will not look at it...

[Retro_71]

Late 1987 it was an Amiga 500. Upgraded from a C64C. Ahhh the memories...............

[bison]

A500, 1987, with Workbench 1.2.  A friend of mine bought an A1000 in late 1985, which is how I got started.  I can tell you first hand that Workbench 1.0 isn't something you want to try.  I wanted an A2000, but I never owned one.  Too expensive at first, and too underpowered later on.

[Seiya]

i got my 2nd hand Amiga 500 in Dicember 1994
A500, 1084S and 512 Kb memory expansion
At the end of 1995 i got my A1200 with Omega and 2 MB di fast, then in 1996, 68030, HD and CDROM.
in 1997 i got my latest cpu: 68040@40 mhz and 32 MB

[nubbins]

Late 80's, my first ever credit purchase. Amiga 500 with a 1084's monitor.
It stopped working approximately 1990, and got boxed up (other priorities). Just stumbled upon it, tested the power supply and it was junk. Bought a cable to use an ATX power supply, and it fired right up. All these years and it was just a power supply. But all those years were not good on my 1084s. Contrast knob assembly broke off the main board. No controls work, and has random vertical lines.

Anyone have any extra 1084s monitors?

[Protek]

I got my first Amiga, an A500 on summer of 2005. Paid 25€ for it. I'd like to say that I've managed with a C64 until that but no. :/

Did get an A590 hard drive unit for that prior switching to an A1200, which I still got.

[SamuraiCrow]

It was the late summer of 1993, the A1200 was on the store shelf and I'd just graduated high-school and was starting college.  Software and More was the store and I knew the owner from years past when I had attended the Commodore user group meetings.  My C128 had seen better years and I needed a faster machine for my college stuff.  The PCs I had seen were overpriced and didn't have graphics acceleration yet.  I paid $650 for it and never regretted it.

[slayer]

I got my first Amiga in very late 1985 (my first ever cpu).

I've never used anything but AmigaOS and I seriously doubt I ever will...

I am pleased to be an Amiga Purist heh