Average Amiga user age?

[efrenmgp]

1988 was the year

[rdolores]

Forever...
Got my first, an Amiga 1000, in early 1986.  It came with both KS/WB 1.0 and 1.1 diskettes, as well as Kaleidescope and a demo disk.  Joined the Philadelphia Amiga Users Group, which was right in the backyard of Commodore (West Chester).  Upgraded to an A2000, but kept the A1000 (bought back the keyboard promo).  Became Newsletter Editor for PAUG until about 1992.  Packed my Amigas away in 1995.  Then came back in 2005 with Amiga Forever.  Set up an Amithlon machine in 2006.  Got an A500 and A1200.  Set up an AROS machine in 2010.  Power up my classics every once in a while to keep the clock batteries charged and for nostalgia.  Use AROS most out of all my Amigas now.

[Drummerboy]

Hmm-- No Co Designer Option!?

Then i chose Forever!.. Since 1985!!!

[danwood]

I'm 28, got my A600 for xmas 1992.

[Templario]

In 1991 I bough my loved Amiga 500 after of five years with my Amstrad CPC 6128.

[lsmart]

How could one have lived in 1987 and not want an Amiga? I had to wait for about a year until I got my Amiga 500. It was 1100DM back then (which would be about $600 today, I think). I still love a couple of things about it. When Tomb Raider filled the shelves in the 90s however I didn´t believe in the future of the Amiga.
I don´t believe in a commercial comeback today, but a few oldtimers more will come back in one way or another, just like some of us. Some are driven by CUSA some will digg AROS some want the X1000. We should welcome all of them.

[amigadave]

Over 100 votes in less than a day, not bad.  Less than 4% Newbies, which is understandable and over 75% are in the Forever and Old Timers categories, which was to be expected around these parts.

[Damiga]

I Bought my first Amigas this year, in february.
I had an Atari 520ST when i was a kid and was actually looking to buy one when i stumpled upon an ad for three amigas. It was hard to find any Ataris for sale so I thought "Why not, I never used an Amiga before".
 
So I bought two A500 and a A600 as a package together with some books, a genlock, 3 external disk drives, a handheld scanner and some other stuff like cables. Just 100 euros for all!
About a month after I bought two A1200, and an ACA1230 Accelerator.
 
So I went from zero to five Amigas in about a month =)
 
No regrets! Oldschool is fun!

[eroom]

Over twenty years easily, i'd been reading about them since the A1000 came out but couldnt afford one.  Then i saw sword of sodan running on a A500 in my local computer shop and that was it, i had to have one.
So i got my first 500 in 88, seems an awful long time ago

Now my loft is groaning under the weight of them all !.

[swift240]

Cant remember the exact year now, but it was 2 years after the A600 came out.
I got an Amiga A600 from new at the time.

Mike.

[cicero790]

I got the A500 in 87 and the A1200 in 93 I think. Then I run ZX Spectrum and C64 emulators, reminiscing about the good old times and marveled at the infinite power of the A1200 AGA. Amiga was main rig for ten years. Now the A1200 is the main honorary rig.

[amigadave]

I Bought my first Amigas this year, in february.
I had an Atari 520ST when i was a kid and was actually looking to buy one when i stumpled upon an ad for three amigas. It was hard to find any Ataris for sale so I thought "Why not, I never used an Amiga before".
 
So I bought two A500 and a A600 as a package together with some books, a genlock, 3 external disk drives, a handheld scanner and some other stuff like cables. Just 100 euros for all!
About a month after I bought two A1200, and an ACA1230 Accelerator.
 
So I went from zero to five Amigas in about a month =)
 
No regrets! Oldschool is fun!

Now that you have been using the Classic Amigas for a few months, are you still looking to buy an old Atari, or have you decided that it is more fun to own and use your Amigas to satisfy your retro-computing urges?

[Lurch]

Since 1987 :-) Before that it was the C= 64c :-)

[Damiga]

Now that you have been using the Classic Amigas for a few months, are you still looking to buy an old Atari, or have you decided that it is more fun to own and use your Amigas to satisfy your retro-computing urges?

I still have my old Atari. But it's just the computer, no cables, no floppy drive, no power supply.
 
I was thinking that i might try to modify an amiga power suppply, buy a cable to connect to my SCART equipped CRT, and use a floppy emulator with sd-card that i bought for my amigas to get the old Atari running again.
 
But it would be of no real use to me, the Amiga platform feels much more alive these days than the Atari. So if i do it, it's just because it's doable, I probably wouldn't use it much.

[amigadave]

I still have my old Atari. But it's just the computer, no cables, no floppy drive, no power supply.
 
I was thinking that i might try to modify an amiga power suppply, buy a cable to connect to my SCART equipped CRT, and use a floppy emulator with sd-card that i bought for my amigas to get the old Atari running again.
 
But it would be of no real use to me, the Amiga platform feels much more alive these days than the Atari. So if i do it, it's just because it's doable, I probably wouldn't use it much.

Good Man!  That is what all of us rabid Amiga fans wanted to read.  You can also probably emulate an Atari on one of your A1200's well enough to get your Atari fix, if you can't get the real Atari hardware to run again.

[scuzzb494]

Since the 'get-go' is that what you young people say today. From the beginning is what I meant to say. The family had Amigas from the start and my father was very keen and had several. Don't think there was a member of the family that didn't have an Amiga in the house. Kinda brought us all together under one machine seeings as my sister had been into Atari and I was keen on the Spectrum. We all agreed it was the best computer to have. Still hold that view I guess. But then i would say that.