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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #74 from previous page: September 13, 2011, 08:41:06 PM »
Interesting to see that a lot of people got in pretty late.
 

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #75 on: September 13, 2011, 08:51:08 PM »
A500, 512/512, external drive, 14" Philips TV with RGB SCART, KS2.04/1.3 using a utilities unlimited kick switcher, AR3. I had various modems on loan at various times, then finally got a 14.4k modem on permaloan from my dad's work around 1993-1994.. I forget. :-)

This setup served as my only computer until xmas 1995. I really wanted a HD for it, but could never afford it, as I was a bit too young to be working proper summer jobs back then.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #76 on: September 13, 2011, 09:43:28 PM »
A500 w/512kb extension, then got A 2000B with a huge 30Mb harddrive, 2Mb RAM and a 8088 bridge board.
 

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #77 on: September 13, 2011, 11:07:00 PM »
In 1991 my "Amiga" looked & worked suspiciously like a C64 complete with Commodore Datasette which only ever seemed to load anything on the second or third attempt. I finally managed to buy a 2nd hand disk drive around 1993. It was about a week after I got this that I went to a friends house & saw his new Amiga 1200. After that I spent most of my time "borrowing" the A1200 but never actually owned an Amiga until many, many years later.
 

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #78 on: September 13, 2011, 11:31:23 PM »
A500 Plus, Cartoon Classics Pack with Phillips CM8833 monitor, Cumana CAX354 external drive.The next year I added an A570 CDTV drive.

http://wiki.classicamiga.com/images/1/1f/A500p_cartoon_pack.jpg
 

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #79 on: September 15, 2011, 07:37:10 PM »
Finally remembered the HD interface I had on my A1000 in 1991.
A1000 Xetec FastTrack SCSI, it looked very much like this:

This is an A500 version, The A1000 version looks eactly the same but the Zorro slot is on the other side and it had a stand since the A1000's zorro wasn't at desk level.

Quick Recap: A1000 with A1000 Xetec FastTrack SCSI with 2mb installed and a used 20mb Quantum HD.  An ICD Flicker Fixer and ICD 68010 @ 14mhz socket plug ins (I've actually fallen asleep awaiting for a screen refresh on PageStream) - Running ADOS 2.0 (softroms)... but would run ADOS 3.0 when the A1200/4000 hit the market.  It ran faster and used less chip ram than ADOS 2.x.     I had 2 external floppy drives and a 13" Packard Bell monitor.

So, I was running AmigaOS 3 before I got my A3000, which I reformatted to AmigaOS 3.0 on its first day.   I have both of the Amigas, both work.
 

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #80 on: September 15, 2011, 08:19:56 PM »
In 1991?

At X-Mas 1991 i got my first Amiga. A Amiga 500, what else. In the next years i got some expansions, like 512kb Ram expansion, second Floppy (ext.) an a AT-500 Expansion with a 233 MB Harddrive. This was my Computer until 1996.
 

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #81 on: September 23, 2011, 03:05:08 AM »
Like today (2 MB Golem Box not on photo) ;)
 



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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #82 on: March 06, 2012, 03:48:42 AM »
My Amiga setup in 1991/1992 was the following:

Amiga 500 computer, Kick 1.3 w/Minimegs 512k A501 clone
Amiga 1080 RGB Color monitor
California Access CA-880 external 3.5" disk drive

In 1992 I got a Micro R&D Sling Shot unit with GVP HC+8 with 2MB and 52MB HD!  I was STOKED!!!
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #83 on: March 06, 2012, 04:13:31 AM »
Back in 1991 I had just the one Amiga:

A1500 with a 68000
ECS Chipset
1MB Chip
1MB Fast
0.5MB Zorro RAM (stripped from my broken B2000)
GVP Hard Card with 2MB RAM and a 120MB SCSI hard drive
2 floppies
1081 Monitor and a dot-matrix printer.
I think I had also installed a keyboard ROM switcher at that point with 1.3 and 2.0 ROMs.

I'm pretty sure my SDFF and VGA monitor were added in 1992 just before I bought an A1200.
A2000, A3000, 2 x A1200T, A1200, A4000Tower & Mediator, CD32, VIC-20, C64, C128, C128D, PET 8032, Minimig & ARM, C-One, FPGA Arcade... and AmigaOne X1000.
 

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #84 on: March 06, 2012, 05:29:06 AM »
I'm logged in with Iceweasel for the first time.  It's kinda wierd!

A500, 512K clock, extra floppy, 1084S, Epson 24 pin, and a 2400 modem.  Damned cool machine, still have it.  There were many Amiga files on local BBSes then.  There was an Amiga section on GEnie then, too.  

I think it was in '92 when the A570 (All the Fred Fish disks fit on one CD!) first appeared along with WB2.1.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #85 on: March 06, 2012, 08:42:59 AM »
in 1991 i was 2 years old and i didnt have an amiga hehe

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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #86 on: March 06, 2012, 09:14:33 AM »
Quote from: SamOS39;682655
in 1991 i was 2 years old and i didnt have an amiga hehe


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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #87 on: March 06, 2012, 09:53:42 AM »
I got my first Amiga in 1992 when i was 12.

A500Plus Cartoon Classics pack + Commodore 1084S. No accessories other than what came in the box and 2 joysticks.

I regretfully sold it around 1996. In 1997 I ended up getting a second hand A500 which I kept and still have today, though its motherboard died earlier this year.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #88 on: March 06, 2012, 10:01:32 AM »
In 1991 I had A2000C, 20MB HDD, 3MB RAM, XT-Bridgeboard, 2 internal FDD 3.5", one internal 5.25", one external 5.25", NecMultisync3D, Matrix printer, etc...

I never really used the bridgeboard, I could do everything + more on the AOS side. I sold the A2000 around 1994, without monitor, for 5000FIM (833eur), for video production needs.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #89 on: March 06, 2012, 12:31:11 PM »
A500 with RAM expansion and RTC. An external 3.5" and an external 5.25" floppy drives, C= 1081 monitor, Citizen B&W dot matrix printer.

The 5.25" disks were cheeper + it reminded me of my C= 1541-II drive.
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