Amiga and Me

The path I took with computers is nothing exceptional and a lot of you may recognise their own story...

I touched my first computer in the early 80's. It was at school, at a Computer Club were we had a Commodore Vic20.
Soon after a few of my friends had a Commodore 64 (Click There for some C64 resources), so I decided I wanted one as well...

It's on that machine I started to learn a bit of programming in BASIC. At first I just copied listings from books, then I modified a few variables in the listing to see what that does and learn a few keywords.
I then started to write some really little programs on my own.
At that time, some little wars started between C64/C128 owners and Atari ST owners at school.
I believe it's at that time that some of my friends started to look at IBM-Compatible (PC).

In the mid 80's, I saw for the first time the Thomson Series.

The first one I "played with" was the TO7, followed by the TO70 The TO7 appeared in September 1982 with an Optical Pen included as well as a Cartidge Drive. The TO70 had more RAM (64KB instead of 24KO which you could increase up to 128KO) and 16 colors instead of the 8 Colors of the TO7. It also had the BASIC (really similar to the C64)
Then a year later, I made a new friend with who I spend a lot of time He had an MO5 or an MO9 on which we played a lot. I also wrote some little applications in BASIC for it.

Around 1987, The A500 just came out... A few months later I received one (I think it was for Christmas).
The Amiga500 was in "All-In-One" computer (looking a bit like the Amiga 1200 which appeared in 1992).
The A500 had Floppy Disks (instead of the default Tapes of the C64).
When I was student in the 90's, there were a lot of wars and flames between Amiga owners/Atari ST Owners and PC (IBM Compatibles) owners !

I bought my first PC around 1998 as I needed it for work.
I never had the same feeling with a PC than I had with the Amiga...
So in 2003 I decided to buy a new Amiga. It was a Desktop A1200 (as seen There). Followed by two more A1200 Desktops (one for spares), and three Amiga 1200 T (towerised A1200).

And of course I also worked on a few other systems including Apple IIe, Risc6000, HP9000, DecAlpha, Mac (I don't remember the model), and IBM-AS400...

I now have an AmigaOne XE G4. The AmigaOne is the new generation of Amiga based on a PPC processor (similar to what you would find in a Mac).

My AmigaOne is now up and running. My main usage of my AmigaOne are: - to type documents (using FinalWriter or WordWorth)
- to retrieve my web-emails (YAM)
- to do most of my web browsing (AWeb, IBrowse, Voyager)
- to listen to Internet Radio (AminetRadio)
- to play Games (Dynamite, Freespace I, and some classic games using e-uae)
- to chat on IRC (WookieChat)

Using my AmigaOne, gave back the fun of using a computer !

Jerry