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Offline kolla

Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #59 on: September 12, 2011, 12:29:02 AM »
In 1991 I didn't have an amiga, or a computer at all, for that matter. Money and time was instead used on school, archery and partying :)
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #60 on: September 12, 2011, 01:51:49 AM »
I had an amiga 500 with hd/memory sidecar and a 1084 monitor. My pc at that time (a 386) was used to run a bbs so the amiga 500 was my main computer for most things.
 
I wanted to upgrade to an amiga 2000 and run my bbs on that with cnet and have enough proc/ram left over to do my own stuff but never did. It was crazy expensive to get enough hardware to do that at that time.
 
My two computer setup worked nice for me at that time. The amiga for games, dialing out to other systems and anything I needed to do and the pc to run my bbs.
 
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #61 on: September 12, 2011, 03:32:45 AM »
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Especially if you called overseas to get the "good stuff"!

you guys paid for long distance.. erm um,uh nevermind, i didnt say that ;>
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #62 on: September 12, 2011, 04:08:48 AM »
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #63 on: September 12, 2011, 04:31:58 AM »
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In 1991 I didn't have an amiga, or a computer at all, for that matter. Money and time was instead used on school, archery and partying :)

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Man, I remember the Bodega Bay, that thing was HUGE!  Even today, with the power of PC's - the IDEA of running 4-6 slots and drives off a single expansion slot - which was really designed for much less, and yet - it WORKED!

Meanwhile 20 years later since my 91' A1000 (above), today what I have is 986mhz faster with 16GB more data storage, 16million more colors and higher resolution, with communications that is 1000x faster and wireless and can tell me where I am anywhere in the world...  yet it fits in my pocket and is just... a PHONE.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #64 on: September 12, 2011, 08:54:42 AM »
I only had a500 (KS1.3) at that time. and a bunch of diskettes. not sure when I expanded RAM with 512Kb.
oh, the fun times!
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Offline tone007

Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #65 on: September 12, 2011, 12:47:48 PM »
I was all 8-bit in 1991 (C64, Apple IIe.)

I'd never even seen an Amiga in person until 2007!
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #66 on: September 12, 2011, 02:47:32 PM »
In 1991 I had a C-64, C-128D, Amiga A1000, Amiga A500, and an A2000.
The A1000 had a hard drive and memory expansion, the A500 had a GVP hard drive/RAM expansion (8Mb), internal FF/SD and an '030 CPU. The A2000 was new, so in '91 it didn't have much in it (yet).
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #67 on: September 12, 2011, 03:27:07 PM »
Lets see in 1991 I had my A3000 for a couple months. Prior to that it was an A1000 I got when it was first released that I had hacked up to do way more then ever intended, but it worked a lot better then my A300 for a time. I ended up selling the A1000 later that year before leaving for the Navy.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #68 on: September 12, 2011, 07:16:02 PM »
That would be around the time of my first (used) Amiga. It was most certainly an A500, I think an Rev5 board, thought it may have been the source of my Rev4 board. It came with an Trumpcard & Meta4, but no HDD, and I think only 1M of ram on the Meta4.

Eventually I ended up with an ICD AdDE with the cable running to the trumpcard case, as I had access to a cheap 40mb IDE drive, and the AdIDE was much closer to my high
school spending budget than the SCSI HDD.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #69 on: September 12, 2011, 10:44:03 PM »
Up to late 91, I was using an expanded C=64 when picked up my first (used) Amiga.

A2000, SupraRam/4mg, SupraSCSI/120mg HD with a bunch of video software and a NewTek DigiView.

Before I got it home, spent more money at the biggest Amiga store in the area at the time. Added 4mg ram, C= A2286 Bridgeboard, 250 meg HD. Shortly after that I picked up another A2000 with an '030 and a VideoToaster.

The addiction continued... pic of the C=64 next to the current Amiga system. The system off to the left is an A3000D. see sig.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #70 on: September 13, 2011, 05:58:02 PM »
Had (and still have) an A500 with a 512kB expansion, a Roctek external floppydrive and an Action Replay III.
Really miss those days.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #71 on: September 13, 2011, 06:29:06 PM »
Around -92 i got my Amiga 500, i few moths later i got a memory expansion for it. unfortunately i sold this computer -95 and was away from the Amiga world until 2005, but now im back and have a lot of nice Amiga gears.
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #72 on: September 13, 2011, 07:20:31 PM »
In 91,
 
Had purchased my A2000 and a 2mb ram expansion. Was playing around with 3d modeling.
 
Still remember those 1night per frame days. also had a 1080 monitor
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Re: What did your amiga look like in 1991?
« Reply #73 on: September 13, 2011, 07:51:18 PM »
In 1991, given I was going through a divorce, was a lowly E-5 in the U. S. Navy, my Amiga looked remarkably like a $25 Osborne while I was dreaming of an A500!

Finally got the A500 in '96 or there about.
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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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