What did your amiga look like in 1991?

[runequester]

20 years ago.

What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?

[Delta]

A500 with memory expansion and additionnal floppy drive, C=2080 monitor

This paved the way to a fully loaded A4000D a couple years later

[commodorejohn]

20 years ago was about a year before my dad picked up our first computer, a second-hand Macintosh IIcx. We got by on 68k Macs until 1997 (yes, really,) when one of my aunts bought us our first PC. Didn't get into the Amiga until 2001, actually.

[Darrin]

20 years ago.

What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?

1991?  I was on my second A2000 (actually an A1500).  IIRC it was a stock 68000 CPU with ECS chipset, 3.5MB RAM (1MB on mobo, 512KB salvaged from the original A2000 on a Zorro card, and 2MB on my GVP SCSI controller), 2 floppy drives, KS1.3 and KS2.0 on a keyboard controlled ROM switcher, 128MB SCSI hard drive with a WB1.3 and WB2.0 setup which booted into the correct Workbench by detecting which Kickstart was active at boot (I think I used something called WHATKICK in my startup-sequence), Microway SDFF & 15" VGA monitor and a cheap-arsed colour dot-matrix printer.

[Darrin]

A4000D w/Cyberstorm PPC/060 64M RAM
PicassoIV gfx card with Concierto sound card
Oktagon SCSI with CD-R and CD-ROM
Boingball mouse, original keyboard
21" AOC monitor

Can't remember what was the size of my hard drive. 4Gb maybe..

I sold this Amiga in 1999 and still waiting for a new one since...keeping my hopes for the X1000 or Natami or might get tempted by a SAM in a near future.

They had the A4000 out in 1991?  I couldn't remember whether I got my A1200 in '91 or '92... I'm getting old and senile.  

Edit:  Actually, I think I'm right.  From Wikipedia:

There are two models, the A4000/040 released in October 1992 with a Motorola 68040 CPU, and the A4000/030 released in April 1993 with a Motorola 68EC030.

[Delta]

Edited my message, I realized in 1991 I was still with my A500  sorry

[Darrin]

Edited my message, I realized in 1991 I was still with my A500  sorry

LOL.  In fairness, it was a looooooooooooooooong time ago.  

[save2600]

In '91, I had a 512kb single drive A1000 in the living room, sitting next to my coffee table, hooked to a 27" professional Panasonic monitor (not TV) w/ all sorts of discrete inputs (ganked it from a McDonald's that I worked at years ago that was used for training purposes and was hooked to a 3/4" professional video player). In the bedroom, sat a 1mb A500 hooked to a 1084s monitor, where I did all my "serious" work. Pics to follow if I can find them.

Also in the living room, across from the A1000, was a C64c with 1802 and a 1541 drive. Again, pics to follow. I was 19-20 years old. Had a Donkey Kong cocktail table arcade, Bally Star Trek pinball and a Gottlieb Count Down pinball in the same small apartment.

[Darrin]

Had a Donkey Kong cocktail table arcade, Bally Star Trek pinball and a Gottlieb Count Down pinball in the same small apartment.

I bet you had lots of friends too!

[SamuraiCrow]

20 years ago.

What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?

1991?  I still was on the Commodore 128 in 1991!  I didn't get an Amiga until the fall of 1993 when I started college.  I still have my first Amiga:  the A1200HD40 (NTSC model).

[HotRod]

My first Amiga was an Amiga 500. Before it was ruined by a relative trying to solder 0.5MB chip RAM on it I had a GVP SCSI controller and 52MB harddrive, 286 PC bord for it, 1MB RAM expansion, 2.800bps modem and some nice Philips monitor (not the 8833). When it broke I had a painfull time with my C64, a friend borrowed me his A1200 for a week .

Eventually I got the A4000D and hardware that I had and have for that one was and are CyberStorm Mk II 040/40MHz with SCSI-module, SCSI CD-ROM, CyberVision64/3D, Apollo 4060, CyberStormPPC, FastATA, CyberVision, Mediator tower, Voodoo 3, Voodoo 4, SoundBlaster 128, Zorro III card with parallell, serial ports and ethernet add on, PCI ethernet card, CD-burner... some monitors, some adapter for PC mice making scrollwheel work and probably lots of things that I don't remember. Oh I had a big tower before the Mediator.

Then The AmigaOne and right now I'm kinda tired of Amiga all together :-P .

I'm thinking about selling my A1 G4 XE so I thought that I should mention it here in case anyone's interested. Information are available here:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34218&forum=33

Just send me a PM.

[stevee617]

Here was my setup! I think this was closer to 1992. I had an A500 with an IVS Trumpcard with a 20MB hard drive and an IVS MetaFour card with 4MB of RAM. I thought I ruled the world.

The local computer club was an "every platform" club. I recall taking this to a meeting and just getting a barrage of questions. The two questions I remember best were, "How much RAM do you have?" I replied proudly, "5 MEGABYTES!" and the other was "How big is your Hard Drive? I also proudly replied "20 MEGABYTES!. I remember one guy saying, "You'll never fill that up!"

[desiv]

Amiga 500 w/512K expansion and 1084s monitor.
What I might have had also (not sure when I got them actually) was a HAM-E graphics board and a Dataflyer with (I think) a 50M hard drive...  (And a digiview gold and electronic color splitter)

And...er.. a lot of floppies..

desiv

[save2600]

I bet you had lots of friends too!

Nah. Always qualified the dumbass chimps, but always had a few real friends (literally) at all times I guess!  lol

And the last one (C64 breadbox) from '86 for "good luck".  :lol:

Used to watch 'Son of Svengoolie' late nights on that 13" Sears TV!

[mechy]

20 years ago.

What amiga models did you own, how were they equipped etc?

I had an amiga 3000 with 16MB ram,A3640 540MB scsi hd,external scsi case and a cd burner,and 6 disc cd changer.
monitor was a 17" sony,but i cant recall what model
Sold it soon after to move up to a A4000 w/warpengine and 128MB ram.now that was good times.by 95' the 4000 had a Picasso IV and other goodies and life was sweet with 24bit..

Oh,still had a 128D then,and still own it today,i was always into c64/128 even when i got a A2000 is late 87'


Mech