Hello all.
I'm a long time Commodore computer user, starting off with a VIC-20 (which I still have with heaps of bits and pieces), moving on to an early model c64 (sadly sold for more than we paid for it in the mid 90s). Then I went upmarket with an Amiga 2000HD in the early 90s with the ECS, Workbench 2.04, 1084s and a 52MB quantum (I can remember my friends with PCs looking enviously at it - what a monster games machine and all that space!). I dabbled briefly with video production, something the Amiga was uniquely suited to do. My time with Commodore parted when I joined the Navy, it was too big a machine to lug around, and everything we used was either PC or UNIX based.
So, I joined the dark side after CBM died, and purchased a pentium 100 with windows 95, and saw how MS had taken a lot of ideas from workbench, and done a poor job at implementing them. I have not had contact with anything CBM related since then (unless you count the odd occasion my brother and I have set up the VIC-20 and the 1530 tape drive to play City Bomber after we have had a few too many beers....) until recently.
I saw a Doco, Viva Amiga earlier this year - very good and a brilliant stroll down amnesia lane. I mentioned it to a mate who used to service a lot of CBM equipment back in the day. Cut a long story short, I now have an instant collection of machines and hardware that has been in storage for 20 odd years. Some I will keep, some I might sell. I am hoping to get some help recommissioning these machines, and have fun doing it.
Regards
David
I'm a long time Commodore computer user, starting off with a VIC-20 (which I still have with heaps of bits and pieces), moving on to an early model c64 (sadly sold for more than we paid for it in the mid 90s). Then I went upmarket with an Amiga 2000HD in the early 90s with the ECS, Workbench 2.04, 1084s and a 52MB quantum (I can remember my friends with PCs looking enviously at it - what a monster games machine and all that space!). I dabbled briefly with video production, something the Amiga was uniquely suited to do. My time with Commodore parted when I joined the Navy, it was too big a machine to lug around, and everything we used was either PC or UNIX based.
So, I joined the dark side after CBM died, and purchased a pentium 100 with windows 95, and saw how MS had taken a lot of ideas from workbench, and done a poor job at implementing them. I have not had contact with anything CBM related since then (unless you count the odd occasion my brother and I have set up the VIC-20 and the 1530 tape drive to play City Bomber after we have had a few too many beers....) until recently.
I saw a Doco, Viva Amiga earlier this year - very good and a brilliant stroll down amnesia lane. I mentioned it to a mate who used to service a lot of CBM equipment back in the day. Cut a long story short, I now have an instant collection of machines and hardware that has been in storage for 20 odd years. Some I will keep, some I might sell. I am hoping to get some help recommissioning these machines, and have fun doing it.
Regards
David
