How Long Have You Been An Amiga User...

[Marcb]

Bought myself an A2000 back in 1987 with the money I'd saved after doing Basic Training in the British Army.  Well, it was either that or squander it on beer and loose women.  

And with the benefit if hindsight?:lol:

[Franko]

I've been an Amiga User since 1985 and I've never used anything else but an Amiga at home as my computer and I never will... I doubt many can also claim that YES of course I know most of you are thankful you're not in this tiny faction... but it sure feels cool from where I'm sitting and that's a fact

At last...

I always knew I wasn't the only one in this world, it's nice to know there's at least one more sensible soul out their...

[Jiffy]

Bought my first Amiga in 1988 to replace my C64.

An A500 with rev 5 motherboard and KS 1.2. It was only a short while later I bought a desperately needed A501 ram expansion and an A1010 external 3.5" diskdrive, making my Amiga much more usable. 512 KB and only one drive is just not enough for an Amiga.

[gertsy]

19-24 years.  Figured as much...

[curtis]

I was the second person in Odessa, TX to buy an Amiga 1000.

Wife, at the time, was pissed as all get out with my spending all that money.  I didn't care!

Have had  A2000 , 500, 3000T, and 3000D over the years.

Of all them, the A1000, IMHO, has the best case design.  Love the "garage" for the keyboard.  Nice, clean, trim lines.  If it had had a better expansion system, I would've stayed with it all the way.

[flip]

Got my first Amiga back in 1987... so that makes 23 years.

[Darrin]

And with the benefit if hindsight?:lol:

LOL.  Ah, but the girls would have faded away in my memories whereas my Amigas are still here... except I can't fit my willy into the floppy drive slot.  

[Opus]

I don't remember the month, but it was early 1986 when I got my new Amiga 1000, putting me shy of 25 years.  (I am now in my 40's, run #amiga on efnet, and love my C=3kT)

[Buzzfuzz]

Started at a friends home with the C64 early 80's.
He then got an Amiga 1000 and swapped it for an A500 shortly after that, but I had more hours on it than him, funny thing was that I could walk in whenever I felt like
Got my first own C64 in 1987 and in 1991 my first own A500.
Never had anything else, only a second A500, but untill early 2010 those where the only things.
So this year I picked up in blazing speed and just bought everything around me.
Total line up is in the signature.

[A4000_Mad]

Hmmmm.... I can clearly remember buying my first Amiga, but as to when is the question. I had gone into my favourite gadget shop called Tandys in Crawley and the latest PC was playing the video 'All I Wanna Do' from a CD single of Dannii Minogue's. The manager saw me in my scruffy work clothes as I was a painter at the time and probably thought to himself "He won't be able to afford a PC for fifteen hundred quid" lol.. Anyway, he came over to me and said "I've got a cheap computer you can have for fifty quid". He explained that it was his own called a Commodore Amiga 500 Plus and that it was out the back. Eventually he went and got it I said I'd have it and paid the man and left

I've googled to see when that single was released and it was in 1997. So you can disregard the above ramble and I'll just tick 13 to 15 years :lol:

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[Marcb]

LOL. Ah, but the girls would have faded away in my memories whereas my Amigas are still here... except I can't fit my willy into the floppy drive slot.

By god man what about the beer??

[Kesa]

I started in 1989 when me and my brother got one "to help with our school work" which thankfully never happened  

Started using Amiga in 1989 which made me 5 years old  

[PanterHZ]

I have been a Amiga user for about 17 years, and before that I was a C64  user. One day I was invited home to a guy who had a A500, and he  decided to show me what the Amiga was capable of, and I got very  impressed by playing games like Lotus 2, Lemmings and Pinball Dreams.  Then he showed me Deluxe Paint and I was even more impressed, and he  continued with booting up a disk with OctaMed where he showed me that it  was possible to make music in a rather easy way as well on the Amiga,  and this by actually using REAL sounds!

He offered me to borrow his A500 if he could borrow my C64, and I agreed  to this. A couple of months later, I was hooked and I decided to buy an  Amiga, he then offered me to buy his A500 which was something I ended  up with doing. Later this guy became one of my best friends, and he  often came to my place for playing games and stuff.

Then in 1997 I bought a brand new A1200 with harddisk & Apollo 1240  accelerator, and during the years that followed, I upgraded my A1200 by  towerizing it, buying a CD writer +++

I must admit that I use my PC most nowadays, but when it comes to my  Amigas, I mostly use my A1200 since it's the most expanded one. But I  regard my A500 as being the most important one to me, this is partially  because it was my very first Amiga, but also because it once belonged to  my friend who unfortunately died in a accident in 2003.

[PanterHZ]

LOL.  Ah, but the girls would have faded away in my memories whereas my Amigas are still here... except I can't fit my willy into the floppy drive slot.  

Oh so you have actually tried this :lol::roflmao:

[4pLaY]

I used my first C= computer in 86? i was no more then 6 years old myself at the time and it was my friends Vic20! later on he got a C64 and i got one myself even later (a used one), as a lot of you guys i later on got my first Amiga but i used Amigas at my friend`ses houses first as i could not afford one myself nor my family as we were far from "rich" like a lot of others around where i grew up, and the rest as they say is history :-).

[Darrin]

By god man what about the beer??

You want me to put my willy in my beer?!  I'm Welsh, not Scottish.  :p