What did your amiga look like in 1991?

[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

[TheBilgeRat]

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!

In picture 4...are those magnepans?!  :eek:

Oh, and in 1991, all I had was the time I spent on my friends A500.  No pride of ownership for me .  Although, to be fair, those were probably the best computer experiences I ever had.

[save2600]

In picture 4...are those magnepans?!  :eek:

Yep, MGIIC's. Not bad for a 20yo, eh?

<--------is not a liberal democrud who believes things should ought to be handed to him. Fundamentals are fun folks!  :lol:   (translation: had to work my ass off in order to afford such nice things. Kids that age today have absolutely no clue of that concept)

[TheBilgeRat]

Yep, MGIIC's. Not bad for a 20yo, eh?

<--------is not a liberal democrud who believes things should ought to be handed to him.

LUCKY!!!

They just made a new set of baby maggies I would really like to get my hands on.  Of course, I'd need something nice to drive them. like a nice mcIntosh tube amp...

[save2600]

LUCKY!!!

HAHA! "Luck" has never been a part of my life. Quite the opposite actually.

Here's a pic of several Maggies (SMG's and IIC's) when I still lived at home and was only 18!  :lol:

...and a "bonus" pic of me demonstrating Pinball Construction Set to my cousin, before my brother and I switched bedrooms in '86:

(60's Arvin portable tube AM radio, Yamaha CD Player, Technics receiver, SR2000 13" TV, C64 and 1541)


Apologies for being a topic de-railer.

[Drummerboy]

In 1991,

-A1000 512KB  (putting away). Amiga 1080 Monitor
-A500 1mb - External Floppy Disk, External Amiga Modem 1200bps - C=1084 Monitor
-C=128 - Epix FastLoad - 1541/1571 - C=1670 1200bps Modem - C=  MPS1000 Printer - C= 1802 Monitor
-PC/XT 8088 12mhz Video Hercules  (a gift from my dad) he said thats Computers (The Commodore and Amiga) its just a Toys, not a real computers ( many people thinked that in that time!)

[Jiffy]

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

Are you sure this was your setup in 1991? I find that slightly hard to believe. I bought a 486DX2/66 with 8 MB ram and a 245 MB IDE drive in 1993 and this was an incredible amount back then. The computer itself was also hideously expensive, mind you (I had a lót of money to burn, back then).

This makes claiming to own an Amiga 3000 with 16 MB ram and a 540 MB scsi(!) drive in 1991, slightly unrealistic, especially as owning a cd-burner in 1991 would be impossible: CDRW came on the market in 1997. And a cd-changer in 1991? Nah. I bought a double speed CD-ROM drive in 1993, maybe 1994 for EUR 340(!).

Anyway, my Amiga-setup in 1991:
- the omnipresent A500, ofcourse. Rev 5 motherboard, KS 1.2;
- an A1084 monitor (no 'S');
- a KCS Power PC Board;
- a MacroSystem Evolution SCSI-controller (bootable with KS1.2);
- an external SCSI-case with a Quantum 80 MB SCSI harddrive;
- an external 3.5" A1010 disk drive;
- a Star LC24-10 dot-matrix printer;
- a Tornado 2400 modem;
- an external 2 MB fastram expansion (I forgot which one);
- several joysticks.

Good setup back then. It remained like this until being replaced by a 486 in 1993.

[save2600]

Now, stevee617's setup rocks!

I can't find the pic now, but my A500 sat a top a computer desk such as this. Had a 24-pin Panasonic dot matrix printer hooked to it, external expansion RAM, 1680 modem, but no HD back in '91.  

[LoadWB]

Sadly, I had no Amiga in 1991.  I purchased my first Amiga, an A500, in 1992.

In 1991 my rig consisted of a JiffyDOS'd C128 with 64k VDP RAM, a 1581, and two 1571s.  It had a 1764 REU I expanded to 256kb (or 512kb, I can't remember which at the moment,) and an Emerson 2400bps external modem using a TTL-to-RS232 converter I built from a magazine schematic using a chopped up IEEE cable.

Sadly, I don't have a pic of this.  I do, however, have a pic of my meager start-up 64C and an Enhancer 2000.  I also had the WarpDrive fast-loader cartridge.  This pic also captures the last gasp of my involvement with the TI-99/4A and a PEB I had borrowed from a guy in town, which I used to convert some of my old games to work on disk instead of tape, and my transition from learning TMS-9900 assembly to hacking away 6502 with a vengeance.

And I'm not sure where that phone is, now, but I would love to find it.

[EWS]

I had my nifty A2000 (second Amiga system by that point) with (I think) 8 megs of RAM and gigantic 45 MB hard drive on a Supra controller.

[xPhilx]

In '91 I had a life, in '92 I had a 600, included a KS 1.3/2.04 ROM sharer. Then came the 1200, then the A4000D, the rest is history.

[zipper]

A500, 0.5 MB Cortex addon, 8833 -II monitor, 9-pin Amstrad printer. The first expansion to get was an external floppy which got rid of irritating constant floppy switching.

[Colani1200]

A500, kS 1.3, 2,5 MB RAM, 1084S Monitor, external floppy, MIDI interface, audio sampler, Seikosha printer, Anderson & Jacobson 300 bps acoustic coupler

[Khephren]

Quite a simple set up. An A500 with a 512k trapdoor extension, and a cumana external drive, Plugged in via SCART to a 14 inch portable telly - running in highres laced for some software (my poor eyes!).
I also owned a hand scanner and a second hand HP inkjet.

By 1991 I had moved into being a proper computer user, as well as a gamer. I used My A500 for DPaint Imagine etc.

[Duce]

A3000 was my first Amiga, a lowly 16mhz model.  My fave Miggy I ever owned.  Had an A4000 that I later put a gfx card and '060 in, and a '030 A2000 with a couple GVP IO Extender cards in it to run my BBS.  Sadly got rid of them all when Windows 95 took off and when C= flatlined.

Have a SAM 440ep, WinUAE rig and a A1200 that's literally working as a doorstop atm :/  SAM is the daily driver and also runs my BBS.

Miss all of them a great deal, they had so much "personality" that is absolutely impossible to find in the modern age of commodity dime a dozen computers.

Was a real different time back then.  If you owned a computer, you simply HAD to know what you were doing or you wouldn't have much fun with them.  Nowadays the computer hobby ideal is pretty much gone the way of the dodo, computers are just appliances  

[ToddH]

An A500 w/512k expansion, 1084s monitor, external floppy drive, a dot matrix printer (don't remember the model), and a modem. Used to dial into my university's network and download Amiga stuff from the internet before the WWW became a reality.