Do you remember your first time

[Chartus]

For me The amiga always had an excitement about it.  I finally gave up and got a PC  but it was never the same.  About a year ago I decided to get some excitment back in computing and got an Amiga 600.  The excitment is back.

[Damiga]

Ahh the good old times.... I bought my first amiga about a month ago

[Mr_DBUG]

All I can remember was going into a store with my parents and really wanting an A500. I also remember a man that went around all the stores demoing it with boxes of boxes of pirated games and thought thats a mean job

Sales guy must have talked them around as I got an A500, was a sad and a happy day. Sold my C64C :/

I can relate to the SAD part ! I was really sad to lose my C64 breadbox, how I loved that machine and miss it to this day .. Just like guitarists never should sell their guitars, kids of that time should never have sold their first computers .. :-)
Wonder where my C64 went, I guess its a goner , too high odds its still in someones attic ... :-) But I can hope ..
I had it for three years and were just getting started programming when I traded it in for an A500 .. The A500 was great and all, but AmigaBASIC was not my favourite language and programming manuals cost an arm and a leg for me, so I couldnt afford any. Imagine having the resources on the net that are available today, THEN !!

[Kronos]

Was in my 2nd as an apprentice, making a whopping 500DM (250Euro) a month. In early early 91 I had saved a wee bit over 1000DM and destined to spend it on my 1st puter.

A decent specced PC was out of the budget (>2000DM) a Atari-MegaST with SM124 was 1400DM and I allmost went for that ..... but in the end I waited another month and spend 1500DM for an A500+1084 at the local supermarket.

At 1st I allways wondered, what that stupid shell-window was for and why I couldn't close it

Another 2 months later I ordered a 512k expansion and an external floppy (pretty sure it was at Vesalia).

Keept it that way till XMas 92 when I bought myself an 1200 with 60MB HD.

[fishy_fiz]

Yes, I was 15. To say she was promiscuous would be kind, but she was attractive,.......

oh, wait, my bad, I seem to be recalling a different "1st time".........

[Colani1200]

I was already a Commodore user (C-116, then C-128) when I read about the upcoming A500 in a magazine and it already caught my interest. Short time after, when the A500 was available in Germany, I saw one in a shop running the Juggler Demo and I was lost.

[Franko]

Hmmm... can't quite recall now it was that long ago, I was just an apprentice shipwright to this old bloke called Noah who was building this big wooden boat, now what was the question again.... :confused:

[amiga92570]

When I grew up, the nerdy kids had PCs

They all viewed them as disposable though.

When I was growing up, there were no PC's.

[TCMSLP]

I was about 15 and the happy owner of an Atari 520STFM.  I must have had the ST for about 1-2 years and spent all my time using it.  Then I visited a friend who had an A500 and showed me the RSI Megademo.  From that instant onwards, I was sold.  I think I bought an A500 some months later (much to my parents disapproval).

I wonder how many machines the RSI Megademo actually helped sell?  I know my local computer stores often had that demo running (complete with a bunch of us kids hanging around watching it).

[rdolores]

After getting my first job after graduating from college, I began looking for a computer.  Macs were too expensive, so I decided to get a PC-compatible.  I went into a computer store in New Jersey around 1986 to check out a Leading Edge PC-clone.  Not too far from it was an Amiga 1000.  The price was about the same, but the Amiga had a color monitor and the Leading Edge had an amber monochrome.  I got the Amiga 1000 with the extra 256kb RAM module, an external 3.5 drive (for a total of 2), the 1080 monitor and the 5.25 drive with Transformer so I could run DOS programs.  I never got the Transformer working properly, but I had a blast with the Amiga.  The computer came with AmigaDOS 1.1, Textcraft and Graphicraft.  I also purchased DeluxePaint and Seven Cities of Gold.  I also remember the Kaleidescope and Demos disks that came with it.  It definitely was the coolest computer at that time.

[cecilia]

i remember it like it was yesterday

around 1987ish I was working on a white cloud commercial - next to me was an incredibly talented artist - Rose Lovell. As we airbrushed the cels she talked about this computer that she and her husband had written a lightbox program for. They also had made a driver for the summagraphics tablet for this computer.

at some point she suggested I attend a local convention and when i arrived at this Amiga convention in NY and saw LIVE, and her animation program (later incorprated into DPaint) I had an epiphany

It's like I saw my future before me. It was an amazing experience. I saved my pennies and bought my Amiga 2000 in 1989 and changed my life.

[Digiman]

Well before launch in early 85 when I read a preview of the spec of this new Commodore machine in development.

[Amiduffer]

Yeah. When my brother got his A500, and booted Firepower. KABOOM!

[Beast96GT]

Yeah. When my brother got his A500, and booted Firepower. KABOOM!

Firepower!  A most excellent game, and one of the few we would play networked with a null modem cable.  Great times indeed!

[LordSpunky]

Mine was around 1994, I had my C64C but my mate had an A500 and I just had to have one, a friend of the family was selling theirs to buy a PC so my mum bought it for a Christmas present......I still have it and it still works........there was such a great feeling and excitement to it all. That was only repeated when I bought an Amiga Inc A1200!