How many years have you been an Amiga user?

[QuikSanz]

The first was a used A500 in 1994.

Chris

[haywirepc]

My first amiga came in 1989. I had been a longtime user of the tandy color computer and it became clear that was no upgrade path from that after the coco 3. I knew I wanted to jump from 8 to 16 bits but I was hating on the pc and mac. Coco with os9 (not mac os9) could multitask like crazy so I knew I wanted something that could multitask.
 
I did some research and found amiga's os to be the best out there.
First, I got a friends amiga 1000 as he upgraded to a 2000. When he first showed me the graphics and sound on the 1000, I was blown away.
 
Later, I got an a500 because there were more upgrade components for it at the time. Eventually, when soundblaster became 16 bit and svga came,
because I did so much music, I had to switch to pc to get 16 bit sound and the ability to burn my music to cd.
 
I kept that a500 and even with a pc as my pain computer, it still saw years and years and years of use. I still play some games on it occasionally. I remember I think I paid 300$ for it originally but when I think about how much I used it, I really got my money's worth!
 
Steven

[dangermouse]

Started out with a VIC-20 in around 1982 or thereabouts. I was young and attempted to program my vinyl collection as a sort of database. Gave up with an 'Out of Memory Error' and I was only a young lad so explaining I need a RAM expansion cart to the oldies was way out of my league.

After that migrated to 64s in the mid-80s followed by a basic Amiga 500 package (el-cheapo model sold in Australia) in around 1989. Used that for years (eyeing off my mates 1200) until I migrated to a 486DX4-100PC. I think my sister still has my original 500.

Stayed with PCs (and still do being a Windows software engineer) but dabbled in Amigas again around 2004. Stupidly sold the lot (I had one of each major model) as I did an international move and just recently have decided to get back into them.

Funny how the buggers just won't leave me alone :p

[NovaCoder]

2008 with a NOS AmigaKit A1200

[amigadave]

Late 80's, but I never had a C=64. :cry:

Ditto, but without the sad crying face.  I never had a C-64 and never wanted one.  The Amiga was my first computer (not counting my Sinclair, which I never used, and therefore never learned anything from) and I still have that A1000, but it needs to be restored, so I replaced it with a mint condition A1000, just to re-live some of those early feelings I had with my first computer in the middle of 1987.

I keep it set up in the "Play" room of the house, but I have been neglecting it lately, since I got MorphOS2.4 installed on my 1.5GHz G4 MacMini.

[marcfrick2112]

For me, it was early '88.... I bought an Amiga 500 pack with my first tax refund check... I was 18 years old.

I remember opening that box and being in awe.... I wanted an Amiga So Bad, but I just sat there staring at it for maybe an hour, before I hooked it up....

[save2600]

My first Miggy... Christmas '86 (A1000), then in '88 (A500). Bought another A1000 after I sold my 1st one to fund the A500, which meant I had 2 Amiga's in the early 90's. When the A1200 came out ('92), bought that for $600 and sold my A500 & A1000 to help fund. Then sold my A1200 and bought a 486 and a CD32. Shortly after that, a 586+. By early 2000's, got out of PeeCee arena and sold my CD32. Went back to Miggy's and Mac's by then. Amiga in the early 2000's was an A1200 and an A4000. Sold both AGA machines by late 2000's and now have (2) A1000's, (1) A500 and one helluva A2500  :-)  

Oh and PeeCee free ever since  :-)

[koshman]

My father bought me A600 in 1996, it was the first computer that was mine. Fortunately, my father has always been a computer nut so in the 80s I was growing up surrounded by Sharp MZ821, Atari 800XE, CPC464, 2 x C64s, but he skipped the 16bit era and bought a 386SX in 1991. After 5 years with my A600 I bought a stock A1200 and one more with 030/50MHz, CDROM, HDD and M1438 around 2001 when I went to college and finally had some income - btw. around 2000 Amigas were going for peanuts around here as people finally started losing hope anything truly new is gonna come out in the Amiga world. I sold everything in 2007 and I was happy, because I got 6x as much as I bought it for. But as everybody knows UAE just isn't the real thing, so I bought A4000D this Monday and should receive it tommorow. Btw. I need to submit my diploma thesis in 3 weeks so I hope I can take my mind off the Amiga for long enough to finish it...

[gertsy]

Looks like I'm part of the most. I parted with my 128D(used 90% of the time in C64 mode) to partially fund my A2000HD in 1989.
Sold my A2000 in 1997......
But started up again with a chance A1200 find in 2005.  Never looked back. Don't you ever look back!

Cheers

Gertsy

[robo-ant]

It was the spring of 1987 (April IIRC), and it was an Amiga 1000.  My previous computer was a Microcom II+ (Apple clone) and I had been wanting to get a Mac because I was reading Apple-related magazines, but then I saw the Amiga and... WOW!  I never, ever regretted going Amiga.

Since then, I have had an A1200, A3000, a PC running Amithlon and Linux, and now a Sam440ep.

I still have all of the mentioned machines.

[BuzzBrain]

Got my first amiga new in box A500 in 1989 after I sold my C64

But sold it later like 93-94 switched over to PC... but that was not the same.

So I buy a used A4000D in 96... after that.. I have a few more amiga's in my home.

I just miss the good old days!!! sadly the golden amiga age will never return.
but I live good on my memories when I turn on my amiga and WB opens in a few sec

Long live Amiga

[yssing]

got my first amiga in 93...

[amiga92570]

Got my first amiga in late 1985 a year after starting work with Rockwell Int. New House, Second kid on the way. The Ex-wife thought the amiga was very expensive, and she was right. It never got any cheaper, but know that she is no longer around I get few complaints about the price. Haha

[Andeda]

My first amiga was a A500 that i got as a present in the late 80's

[Orphan264]

Bought my first Amiga in 1987, after selling my C= Plus/4! Happily purchased from the Memory Location, Wellesley, MA USA. God I miss that place. Used to take weekly trips to see the latest and greatest, and always left amazed at the cool stuff. I just remember standing there smiling while the shopkeeper demo'd the lastest hardware and software. *sigh*

[ferix]

I met Amiga on a department store in late 80's, about '88 or '89, but I never got one on such decade. Later, on '93, a friend of mine bought one A500. That was the first Amiga I touched, and that was also the first one I owned. Well, when he gave It to me, It was totally destroyed... He gave me a dead motherboard (full of soldered wires), the upper and the lower covers whit some holes from his experiments, and a dead power supply, no shielding cover, no screws, no floppy drive and no wires... Not too much. I just stored these parts... Until this year, when I started my restoration project (I'll post It later). Now It's a full working "black" Amiga.
My first working amiga was, and still It is, an A500+ I bought on ebay on '98.
It was a dead one, but I managed to get It working. Quite simple, just clean some chip's rusted legs. There was no power supply, but I fixed the dead one I got (replacing some faulty caps). I don't remember from where the mouse came, but I guess I got It for free...
So I'm a '90 user...

Edit:
I forgot to mention I've got an A600 I bought on ebay circa 2003...
I alsow own two C64, one is a nacked board from the same guy who gave me the A500 (also dead), and the other one from ebay, bought as not working, I don't remember the date, but It was cheap.
The first one has a dead PLA, but working VIC. The last one, has a working PLA, but a dead VIC... I bet you guess how I fixed one of them
Now, I bought a VIC on ebay, and I'm working on a CPLD replacement for the PLA... just for fun