Greetings all... It's been a long time coming.

[zonekeeper]

I'm embarrassed to say I have known of the site for many years, have lurked on many threads, and only today registered.

Talking about myself is not my favorite, but here goes...

I was a Commodore kid, like many of you, growing up in the 1980s. I can remember vividly my first encounter with an A1000 at the local Commodore dealer in the Summer of 1985. Socks blown off, of course, but that's an understatement. I managed to buy one in early '86 and was a devout daily Amiga user until 1993. The Amiga was instrumental in motivating my university education which turned out to be Computer Engineering largely _because of_ the Amiga.

I've been a minor collector of retro-computer gear since 2014. Minor means it has not completely taken over my home I have many Amigas and I'm currently working through upgrading some of them with 68060s, or PiStorms, or recently revived (i.e. reverse-engineered) Unobtainium that is now back!

I also make a hardware/software open-source do-hickey for the C64/C128, which provides me with many hours of retro-joy and the chance to meet fellow Commodore lovers around the world. It will likely bleed into some Amiga projects in the future...

Happy to be here!

 

[Magic]

Welcome! Similar story here.

 

[Templar]

Hello and welcome.

 

[Watson]

Welcome to Amibay!

 

[spajdrex]

Welcome to the family!

 

[YouKnowWho]

@zonekeeper...from N.C., keeps to himself, started on a Commodore 64, Computer Engineering in University...hmmm...

Mr. Edward Snowden? Welcome to AmiBaY! Of course you would love the Amiga computers that don't creep on us and collect our data in this era of surveillance.

 

[zonekeeper]

Thanks all for the warm welcome!

@YouKnowWho Funny! Snowden is definitely a reclusive sort of celebrity, but I'm neither. I AM cultivating the dream of an Amiga as "daily driver" PC again. With the right network connectivity and a few key apps, it could work. If I just succeed in prying my digital dependence away from bloated modern web apps, then that would go a long way toward stopping the "creepers".

 

[YouKnowWho]

I am doing the same thing! However, it is going to include an SBC inside the Amiga so I can run Windows XP. Funny, I was just thinking what that list of essential apps would be on the Amiga for me. Then I remembered, most Amiga apps fit on a single floppy, some on a few floppies, so Amiga apps are not exactly demanding for storage resources. Ahh...the days you bought software and owned it.