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Offline klx300r

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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2011, 03:44:13 AM »
since 87:afro:
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2011, 04:01:09 AM »
Got mine in 92, but had messed with them at a friends place prior to that.

Had a period from 98 or 99 on where I was on PC's though emulation came up. Now Im back :)
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2011, 04:32:38 AM »
No pancake option...you fail the internets...
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2011, 07:24:54 AM »
Since about '89: an A500, rev 5. Used it until being replaced by a 486 in '93. Replacing it with a pc was a good choice. Yes, it really was. The A500 desperately needed replacing and the choice was between a more recent Amiga and a pc. The pc won, obviously.

Since then, I sold the A500 and got me several other Amigas as retro computers (A1200, A2000, A3000). And although I still prefer my pc for normal day-to-day stuff, the Amiga is much nicer to fool around with.
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2011, 07:29:27 AM »
Christmas 93 :) a lovely A1200. Will never forget get that christmas!
sometime in 96 got a cheap CD32 from Cash Convertors and late
1999 got a second hand power tower amiga A1200 with 040, 32mb, 10Gb HD, Cd-rom, and OS 3.5
Havy user of the Amiga all the way up to 2003, then slowly drifted away (largly thanks to Amiga Forever, never quite left the Amiga scene), just glad to be back.
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2011, 07:37:44 AM »
you can't compare fooling around with a PC to an Amiga... :D
Amiga fools around better. Even now i use my PC for alot of stuff BUT if i want to relax or play around or experiment then nothing beats the feeling you get from your Amiga.

Actually counting the hours till work finishes, feed and put kids to bed, do backups of all the servers and THEN get onto my Amiga's and play around with them.
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2011, 07:46:14 AM »
Since the very first consignment of A1000's (there were 6 in it) arrived in Scotland in 1986... :)
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2011, 01:30:56 PM »
29. Got my first miggy when I was 10.
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2011, 01:36:01 PM »
Quote from: klx300r;638546
since 87:afro:


Ditto. A500.
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2011, 01:40:23 PM »
I bought an A2000 from the President of our local Commodore Users Group in 92 or 93.  He had bought a new A1200.  I was still very heavy into 8 bit at the time but the Amiga slowly dug her claws in.
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2011, 01:46:19 PM »
Since 1989
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #25 on: May 18, 2011, 02:22:00 PM »
I borrowed an A500 from work (no, I didn't steal it, my boss was cool like that) and I moved on from there.  That was like 88' or 89' so I just fit into the 20 year club.:afro:
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2011, 02:24:22 PM »
I really wanted an amiga when the A500 was launched, however it wasn't untill the early 90's (93?) that I was able to afford one.. had all sorts of amiga's since then..
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #27 on: May 18, 2011, 02:25:44 PM »
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I borrowed an A500 from work (no, I didn't steal it, my boss was cool like that) and I moved on from there.  That was like 88' or 89' so I just fit into the 20 year club.:afro:
It's 2011 now, and you used the Amiga in '89... That makes 22 years... About the same as me :)
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #28 on: May 18, 2011, 02:40:29 PM »
Since '88 or '89; don't actually remember :) Bought one of some guy that were selling it off because he was going to be a foreign exchange student for a year.

Then there was a big gap from '98, when I gave up on my A3000 in favor of a much faster PC with Linux, to the X1000 announcement last January got me to check out the various forums and enticed me back (just with UAE, AROS and a Minimig for now)...
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Re: Average Amiga user age?
« Reply #29 from previous page: May 18, 2011, 03:39:27 PM »
1988 was the year :)
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