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Offline FrankoTopic starter

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How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« on: November 17, 2010, 12:58:29 PM »
How long have you been an Amiga user. So's not to leave anyone out this time I'm including anyone using just an emulator or any type of Amiga OS system/Hardware as long as it is Amiga... (ie: not just so called Classic Hardware)... :)

Heck I'm feeling so generous here I'll even allow those of you who went away from the Amiga scene to other platforms (Boo, Hiss) and then saw the light and came back (Yeah...) to best computer system ever, to count from when you got your very first Amiga... :)

1) less than 1 Year
2) 1 to 3 years
3) 4 to 6 years
4) 7 to 9 years
5) 10 to 12 years
6) 13 to 15 years
7) 16 to 18 years
8) 19 to 21 years
9) 22 to 24 years
10) 25+ years

(hope I've covered everyone this time, as me flak jackets getting a bit shot full of holes these days... :lol: )
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2010, 01:01:15 PM »
I guess about 20 to 21 years... Moved to AROS in 1999, though it didn't do much back then :)
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2010, 01:17:14 PM »
About 21 years, though I've only been an owner for 18.
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2010, 01:20:25 PM »
I first used an Amiga when i was 10 back in around 1991 and got my first one a year later (A500 Plus)
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2010, 01:28:19 PM »
Got my first A500 in 1989, so 21 years in total.
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2010, 01:59:56 PM »
Since 1985, but mostly just a hobby now. Have not used anything but PC at work in the last 15 years.
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2010, 02:26:45 PM »
Got my first Amiga 500 in 2001; I'd been searching for a replacement for the Commodore 64 my dear mother gave to Goodwill, and found out about the other computer Commodore was famous for. Got one off eBay with Another World and Ports Of Call and I was hooked. Unfortunately I had to give it up in one of our moves, and I spent a long time without one after that.

Early this year, however, I got in touch with a nice fellow out in Colorado who gave me a 500 setup  for the cost of shipping, which I had to sign up with a "gun-friendly" PayPal alternative to provide. Built that up for a while until this fall, when a crotchety old farmer sold me a 2500 (stripped of its accelerator) for a reasonably low price after refusing to sell me absolutely anything else out of his enormous piles of awesome stuff for an amount I could afford. (Seriously! There was a Blizzard 040 in there, and now it's probably gone to the dump :furious:)

I've built the 2500 back up with a larger hard drive, fast RAM, and an accelerator, and that's now my main Amiga. And since the AGA machines don't really hold much interest for me, it'll probably stay that way :)
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2010, 02:39:21 PM »
21 years.. Out of a total of 30 as of writing.

However I broadened the machine range I use around 1996.
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2010, 02:47:53 PM »
Fell in love with the Amiga not long after the a1000 was released (my brothers friend had one and I used to tag along sometimes so I could play on it), but I didnt have my own until '87 when the a500 was released. I tried to get one beforehand, but being that I was only 10 in '85 I relied on Mum, and she didnt give in until there was a cheaper option :)
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2010, 02:48:15 PM »
My first Amiga was an A1000 which I bought when KS & WB 1.1 was first released.
I got an A4000 in 1998 and proceeded to Tower it, I was later given a none working A4000 which I was able to fix.
Most of my amiga need are now met by using Amiga Forever and some testing of AROS.
Although I just got a Voodoo4 card so will test on my A4000 Tower when I get the time.
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2010, 02:56:15 PM »
Quote from: fishy_fiz;592466
Fell in love with the Amiga not long after the a1000 was released (my brothers friend had one and I used to tag along sometimes so I could play on it), but I didnt have my own until '87 when the a500 was released. I tried to get one beforehand, but being that I was only 10 in '85 I relied on Mum, and she didnt give in until there was a cheaper option :)


lol

Same here, my Mum and Dad finally saved up enough money to buy me the Batpack A500 for Christmas '89 when I was 12yrs old.

Best xmas day ever! :)
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2010, 02:57:44 PM »
23 years on and off. Mostly on. First Amiga was the A1000 that my parents helped split the cost of Christmas of '87  :)
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2010, 03:09:35 PM »
It's kinda weird (and a wee bit scary) when you look at the actual number of years of your life that you've been into the Amiga for, sometimes wonder what other computer I'd have been into if the Amiga hadn't come along, or worse what if home computers hadn't been invented at all... :eek:

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lol

Same here, my Mum and Dad finally saved up enough money to buy me the Batpack A500 for Christmas '89 when I was 12yrs old.

Best xmas day ever! :)


Gawd, 12 years old in 1989, that make's me feel decrepit, I thought everyone was born in the 60's... :lol:
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2010, 03:16:10 PM »
Quote from: Franko;592475
It's kinda weird (and a wee bit scary) when you look at the actual number of years of your life that you've been into the Amiga for, sometimes wonder what other computer I'd have been into if the Amiga hadn't come along, or worse what if home computers hadn't been invented at all... :eek:

@ nicholas


Gawd, 12 years old in 1989, that make's me feel decrepit, I thought everyone was born in the 60's... :lol:


Well it's nice for me to feel young for a change Frank. :lol:
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Re: How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2010, 04:11:10 PM »
I got my first Amiga in 1987 o 1988 I can't remember... then I stopped using Amigas in 1997 or so... the I used only WinUAE and in 2008 I returned to the "physical" amigas :)

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