What did your amiga look like in 1991?

[agami]

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.
Still have all of it.

[blanghorst]

In 1991, I had an Amiga 2000 with dual floppies, a DKB (?) ROM switcher with 1.3 and 2.04 ROMs, the Commodore 1200 baud modem, and a DigiView setup.  I added a 2091 SCSI controller with 2 MB of RAM and a 52 MB hard drive the following year.
 
I pulled this same Amiga out of my garage last year and refurbished it with a new board (need to repair battery damage on the old board), a Microway flickerfixer and a GVP G-Force 68030 accelerator with 8 MB of RAM.

[amiga-penn-wchester]

Apologies in advance for being long winded, but ... first post and all...

in late 1991, I got my first used A500 (1.2/1.3) for $30, which I thought was an amazing deal. It was said to have a broken floppy, but after I hit it with some compressed air, it just worked!  Basically visited BBSs, downloaded demos, played a lot of games with it.  Used a data-over-voice modem to achieve 9600baud somehow. I hadn't an RGB monitor yet, so I was using A520 composite.  Soon after I purchased a used 1000 which came with RGB monitor, and I believe I paid around $200 for both.

then in early 1993: purchased a vanilla A1200 w/ 40 mb harddisk, from one of the last standing dealers in my area, which set me back maybe $699 or so?

Then I purchased an Microbotics 030 card w/16M + RTC.  

Somehow got an A2000 around 1994 for $125.  Bought an surplus stock Bridgeboard 286 kit and somehow figured out how to use Janus to boot WB from a bootfloppy using the harddisk attached to the bridgeboard. Eventually that got fitted with extra ram, 68010(!) and supra drive controller. Ultimately it was 2mb ECS system w/ cd-rom.

Then I purchased an Apollo 040 for the 1200, w/ 64m ram. (1996?)

1998-99 towerized the A1200 with Micronik ZII backplane and added Blizzard 060/240mhzPPC + PicIV + Xsurf + Ioblix.

then I sold it all in pieces a few years ago. (The blizzard itself went for $700) and kept an A2000/030 + video toaster.

[arttu80]

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.

Amazing, close to my story!  Indeed at age of 12 I had A500Plus and Philips 14" TV for greatest birthday present ever! Boy I hated that KS2.04, it messed up lots of good 'ol games (took me years to find out there was such thing as relokick) ! And here I was, happy lil' fella..1992 --->

http://i8.aijaa.com/b/00102/11489564.jpg

[Zac67]

Brandnew! A3000, 6 MB RAM, 100 + 300 MB HDDs, Mitsubishi EUM 1491 - still sitting on my desk (rarely powered up though)

@mechy
CD burners weren't out (affordable) yet in '91... I remember trying to sell a Philips late in 1991 for ~$16k

[blakespot]

Here's my setup, taken in late 1992 actually. Close enough?


two amigas from my past by blakespot, on Flickr




bp

[Pyromania]

20 years ago.

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

In 1991 I had a Camouflage (painted it myself) Amiga 500 with a 50 Mhz 68030, 32MB of RAM, Sony 25XBR RGB Monitor/TV, Red/Black Wico Joysticks and a external SCSI 140MB Harddisk.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G1sGzpxhL._SY500_.jpg

http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss90/jwcbet/25xbr.jpg

http://atariace.com/images/atariace.com/atari/images/joysticks/wico_command_control.jpg

[motrucker]

All of my photos from that time are gone. But in 1991 I had an A500 with a mega midget, and GVP A500+. I also had an A2000 with an 030 with all sorts of goodies. I had long since sold the A1000 for the "newer" hardware.
In 1991, the A1200 was right around the corner, and I was all over one of them as soon as they were released.
This was a good period for the Amiga, not that Commodore was pushing much - IIRC CBM was busy pushing AmigaVision about then.....

[Lurch]

'91 onwards I didn't own an Amiga, was in the high speed world of 486's and the like :-)

[kd7ota]

Is it just me.... But just by looking at this picture makes me MISS computing with my Amiga...

Disk drive clicking, modem making the crazy sounds dialing into a BBS, slight high pitched noise coming from the monitor, Printer extra loud when it prints, and all the endless disk access sounds...... Yep, good thing Amiga was there growing up....

[spookyx]

I had a 500 with an external floppy,  1084s, modem  and 1000's of pirate disks.   what a time  

[agami]

Amiga 500 with 512 kB + Clock expansion (total 1 MB), 1084s Monitor, external 3.5" floppy drive, external 5.25" floppy drive (much cheeper disks at the time), a track-ball of some kind (much better for graphics), and some QuickShot and QuickJoy joysticks.

I remember salivating at the A3000 that year, I can't remember the last time I desired a computer that much. In '92 I was going to spend big (big for me) on expanding my A500, GVP+ 20 MB HD w/ 8 MB RAM, 2.04 ROMs, a printer, maybe an accelerator. Then the sales guy at my local Commodore reseller tells me to hold off for the A1200. Best decision I ever made.

[Jiffy]

Hm... 1991...

That would be an A500 (rev 5, KS1.2), A1010 diskdrive, KCS Power PC Board, MacroSystem Evolution SCSI controller with 80 MB Quantum ProDrive, a 2 MB external ram expansion, Tornado 2400 modem, a Star LC24-10 printer, a Multivision 500 flicker fixer and a 14" multisync monitor (forgot which type).

[ToddH]

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!"

Holy crap I owned that same desk! In fact, my setup was almost identical to yours. About the only difference was I didn't have a hard drive on my A500.

[KimmoK]

I had A2000, 1MB Chip, 2MB fast, bridgeboard (never used that really), 40MB HDD, two 3.5" FDD, one 5.25" drive, NecMultisync3D, VCR, TV, etc... Did some videoeffects (editing), animation, played with 3D rendering, music, midi, graphics, scripting, games (&DIY HD installations of games)...

(it was silly how some older guys who owned x86 came just to see the weir system with more than 640kB continuous RAM)

Too bad that I never made backup of the HDD. I never had any reliability issues. Untill in 1992 we had electricity cut while I was defragmenting the HDD. Lost everything. Never had that great setup ever since. Sold the A2000 in y1994 and got a A4000.

'91 onwards I didn't own an Amiga, was in the high speed world of 486's and the like :-)

Strange... A590 HDD could transfer 2,5MB/sec in y1990 or so, stock 486 did not manage that in 1993, etc, etc...
But perhaps you were just joking.

[jm4n]

Threads like these make me wonder how our eyes have survived the computing era of tubes flashing hard, tanning  our faces for hours :-)
I like so much these old shots, with all the stuff on desks and walls.