Do you regret ever getting rid of your Amiga?

[Kernel]

I've let a 2000, multiple 500's, and countless software/accessories go over the years... but it pains me to have let go (3) Amiga 3000's, a DENEB, a Picasso IV, a A1011, and Zeus BBS with printed manual.  I'd say one of the original Supra HD's for the A500 as well - nostalgic as all hell

I have an A1200 I need to recap still, and an A500 with GVP HD8+ that I'm about to pull out from storage, but I really want to get another A3000, and an AmigaOne X5000.

[polyp2000]

I never "got rid" of my Amigas , but I do regret not taking better care of them when I was younger.

[pyrre]

Getting rid of an old amiga 2000.
It was dead. but it was some sort of clenodium.
It had onboard sockets for up to 8MB of ZIP ram.
I have been unable to find the similar A2000 in later years....
I'm really sad i let it go...

[CodePoet]

Yes. I miss all my Amigas, I wish I knew what I know now back then, I would have been able to repair and keep all of them.

A1000 (1994-1995)
A500 (1996-1997)
A2000 (1997-1998)
A600 (1998)
A1200 (1999-2002)

Wound up selling my A1000 to get an A500 which ended up being faulty. It wouldn't read any disks when the monitor was switched on.

I had an A2000 with a 'Flash2000' supercharger card that I killed trying to mod in 1997, I can't remember what the mod was, but it involved a SCSI terminator and I cooked the power supply traces and lost access to RAM. I was 13 at the time

I loved my A600, but wound up selling it in a garage sale after I got my A1200

The A1200 I bought suddenly lost the ability to display the colour blue and eventually stopped booting from the harddisk.

I also had a drawer full of at least a thousand floppies that I've collected since childhood that I literally threw away, a lot of them were really special. There was a disk I remember called "The Alliance Anti-Virus Collection" - One of the tools on it would add a jingle and scrolling text to your "insert workbench" disk screen. I think it was called Sector Protector or something

Better days, man

[polyp2000]

I realise thats actually not true . I remembered I took an a2000 + Monitor to the Tip - this  I do regret.

[vince_6]

Saw that coming :-D

I sold my A500 1.3.2 to get an A2000 that I didn't ever put a card in there, waste of money.
Then I sold her too for an A1200.

 I wish I had my first A500.
  Well, still got my first Amstrad CPC though...

[tonyvdb]

Now I dont feel quite so bad as I see I am not alone in getting rid of one without knowing how it could of been fixed.

[trixster]

Thankfully I never got rid of any old amiga stuff but it lay unused in my parents loft and then my brother's cellar from about 1996 - 2014..! Thankfully the hardware is all up and running again and is going great guns. Sadly i'd say 90% of the floppies now dont work and a large number of the boxed games suffered from damp. Should have stored them better.

[Skateman]

Yes i did regret selling my Amiga (s) back in the days... (twice)

So then again... i Bought back an Amiga A1200. had it recapped, inserted a basic Indivision turboboard, retronet Wifi/Zmodem for BBSing and added a new mouse.. So its ready for many years of fun to come.

After that.. the X5000 joined the collection :-)

[Ilwrath]

Do you regret ever getting rid of your Amiga?

Not really.  I suppose I have a very minor regret for selling my A1200 back in the day.  It was to buy my A4000, which was the right choice at the time.  

I bought a very similar A1200 back a decade ago or so, though.  So it's close enough.  (Still not quite "mine" though.  Though at this point, I've owned this one longer than "mine.")  

But I don't miss selling off all my big box Amigas back 7-8 years ago.  (Including the A4000 referenced above.)  Honestly, it surprises me how much I don't miss them.  Goes to show, it was time.  

I still lurk by here every once in a while.  It surprised me to see that my last login was in 2016, though.  I guess it's even less than I thought.  

[goldfish]

Hi

Mega regrete selling my A1200 Elbox tower with Picassio IV plus TV module and blizzard 060. Also had ioblix card connected to 56k modem still to this day I have not experienced a Amiga on fast broadband internet. Now I have been working my way up again and now have 2 Amiga 1200 one desktop with A1233n with 128mb was using Indivison AGA card but was not that impressed with it. Will be selling that soon I think. Also have Elbox A1200 with mediator but that is a non working state at the moment as the ACA 1233n does not get on with the mediator.

[Pentad]

Nope. By the time my college years were winding down so was Commodore. By late '93 it was clear Commodore was going to die. AGA was too little too late. Software was dwindling. Microsoft and Apple had won. I had a decked out 4000 (Emplant, Spectrum, 21" Sony Monitor) and I knew if I didn't sell it then it would depreciate with the demise of Commodore. So I sold it all and jumped into the Powerbook line (then into Windows 95).

I loved Commodore. I really did. My first computer was the C64, I upgrade to the C128 and then jumped into the Amiga line. I had the most fun with Commodore computers. They were so far ahead of their time and the users did some amazing things with them. Damn Commodore management.

By 1993 I had to look to my future and the Amiga seemed like a dead end. The world had voted and the Amiga lost. I remember seeing the Windows 95 betas (Chicago) in '93 and thinking it would take the world by storm.

I only regret Commodore management and marketing could not have leveraged the power of the Amiga.

-P

[Motormouth]

No,  I never sold any of my amigas.

Especially my first A500.
nor the 2nd hand A3000 that go me through all of the 90's.

[3583Bytes]

On one hand yes I wish I had all my retro computers from the 80s 90s.  

Practically though I used that money to buy my next computer (and so on and so on).  If I got to go back I would probably still sell them.

All these computers eventually led to my career which now allows me to buy them back.

So for me at least I have no regrets.

[mastersetter]

My dad bought our first in 92, a 500 plus, still have it, and I bought an a1200 in maybe 94 I think, still have that too. Plus a c64c, and my first computer, a Toshiba HX-10, still in it's box with cassette deck etc I guess we are hoarders lol im lucky not to have had to spend anything really on these as we have always had them.

[BozzerBigD]

Nope. By the time my college years were winding down so was Commodore. By late '93 it was clear Commodore was going to die. AGA was too little too late. Software was dwindling. Microsoft and Apple had won. I had a decked out 4000 (Emplant, Spectrum, 21" Sony Monitor) and I knew if I didn't sell it then it would depreciate with the demise of Commodore. So I sold it all and jumped into the Powerbook line (then into Windows 95).

I loved Commodore. I really did. My first computer was the C64, I upgrade to the C128 and then jumped into the Amiga line. I had the most fun with Commodore computers. They were so far ahead of their time and the users did some amazing things with them. Damn Commodore management.

By 1993 I had to look to my future and the Amiga seemed like a dead end. The world had voted and the Amiga lost. I remember seeing the Windows 95 betas (Chicago) in '93 and thinking it would take the world by storm.

I only regret Commodore management and marketing could not have leveraged the power of the Amiga.

-P

@Pentad

You were excited by the launch of Windows 95!!! I mean if you were used to Windows 3.1 then fair enough but you knew about the Amiga. I mean I don't remember PeeCees being at all useable until Windows 98 at least and they were still very ropey until XP IMHO.