Your first ever computer?

**Yac** · 02-17-2015, 05:02 AM

Not counting the awful Atari 2600 game console, my first computer was
the mighty Amiga 500 +!

The + meant 2 things: it had some more ram by default and a newer operating system (kickstart 2.0 instead of kickstart 1.3 iirc). This meant that roughly 40% of Amiga 500 games wouldn't run on it and at the same time, all the Amiga 1200 games that ran on that os, wouldn't run as the hardware was too weak.
Solution ? I found an ad in a gaming magazine, told my parents about it and on my birthday a man with a soldering iron and a special kickstart 1.3 circuit board came in. He spent 2 or so hours on my beloved Amiga and when he was done, it had an additional switch in the back, it let me choose which OS the computer would boot up with.
One of my greatest regrets is selling my Amiga, and for something like 30$ (it was 15 or so years ago, I guess it's worth a bit more now)...
I also had an original Commodore 14 inch monitor to go with it, with an almost inch thick "anti radiation screen".
Ah Amiga...

02-17-2015, 05:02 AM	#35 (permalink)
Yac Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: It's a secret too. Posts: 1,363	Not counting the awful Atari 2600 game console, my first computer was the mighty Amiga 500 +! The + meant 2 things: it had some more ram by default and a newer operating system (kickstart 2.0 instead of kickstart 1.3 iirc). This meant that roughly 40% of Amiga 500 games wouldn't run on it and at the same time, all the Amiga 1200 games that ran on that os, wouldn't run as the hardware was too weak. Solution ? I found an ad in a gaming magazine, told my parents about it and on my birthday a man with a soldering iron and a special kickstart 1.3 circuit board came in. He spent 2 or so hours on my beloved Amiga and when he was done, it had an additional switch in the back, it let me choose which OS the computer would boot up with. One of my greatest regrets is selling my Amiga, and for something like 30$ (it was 15 or so years ago, I guess it's worth a bit more now)... I also had an original Commodore 14 inch monitor to go with it, with an almost inch thick "anti radiation screen". Ah Amiga...