Hello AmiBay members,
I'm Jens from Germany. My first computer was a C64 which I obtained in early 1990. I didn't know much about computers at the time. I became fascinated with the Amiga shortly after that, realising that it's a much more potent machine. As PCs in the home gained a lot of momentum in the early 90s I was a bit disappointed with the Amiga not being improved. I waited until the release of AGA machines in late 92 and eventually bought an Amiga 4000/030 in April 1993, shortly after my 17th birthday. I was what you could call an evangelist, constantly trying to convince friends and classmates to buy a new Amiga or upgrade their existing one and I was quite successful with that. When Commodore went bust in 94 I decided that it was best to invest in the system asap as the market would most certainly decline. So if I wanted to have as much fun as possible, there was no time to be wasted. I bought a larger HDD, my first CD-ROM drive and a 3640 CPU card. After several further upgrade cycles I eventually ended up with an A4000 in an RBM tower, Cyberstorm PPC, CyberVision PPC, Delfina and some other things. When I started my computer science studies in 98 I used the Amiga alongside PCs for university projects, but over time I used the Amiga less and less. After an internship in the south of Britain in 2001/2002 I ended up almost only using the Windows Laptop and PC I owned at the time. The Amiga was fired up not more than twice a year. Then came 2005. I was a little short of money... and sold it all:/
Last year I bought a recapped A1200 on ebay, equipped it with an Indivision and an ACA 1233/55. I also own an A500, a CD32 and a C64C which I bought years ago but do not currently use.
The A1200 ist the system I'm "working" with. When I bought it, it was already equipped with an IDE/CF-adapter and a pre-installed ClassicWB. I recently bought OS 3.1.4 and started a new installation on a 32GB CF card, trying to remember or to re-learn what I once knew when I used my A4000 regularly. After I managed to get the system online with a PCMCIA-WiFi card the next thing I'll try to do is to get it to access my Diskstation via Samba.
That's me!
Cheers
Jens
I'm Jens from Germany. My first computer was a C64 which I obtained in early 1990. I didn't know much about computers at the time. I became fascinated with the Amiga shortly after that, realising that it's a much more potent machine. As PCs in the home gained a lot of momentum in the early 90s I was a bit disappointed with the Amiga not being improved. I waited until the release of AGA machines in late 92 and eventually bought an Amiga 4000/030 in April 1993, shortly after my 17th birthday. I was what you could call an evangelist, constantly trying to convince friends and classmates to buy a new Amiga or upgrade their existing one and I was quite successful with that. When Commodore went bust in 94 I decided that it was best to invest in the system asap as the market would most certainly decline. So if I wanted to have as much fun as possible, there was no time to be wasted. I bought a larger HDD, my first CD-ROM drive and a 3640 CPU card. After several further upgrade cycles I eventually ended up with an A4000 in an RBM tower, Cyberstorm PPC, CyberVision PPC, Delfina and some other things. When I started my computer science studies in 98 I used the Amiga alongside PCs for university projects, but over time I used the Amiga less and less. After an internship in the south of Britain in 2001/2002 I ended up almost only using the Windows Laptop and PC I owned at the time. The Amiga was fired up not more than twice a year. Then came 2005. I was a little short of money... and sold it all:/
Last year I bought a recapped A1200 on ebay, equipped it with an Indivision and an ACA 1233/55. I also own an A500, a CD32 and a C64C which I bought years ago but do not currently use.
The A1200 ist the system I'm "working" with. When I bought it, it was already equipped with an IDE/CF-adapter and a pre-installed ClassicWB. I recently bought OS 3.1.4 and started a new installation on a 32GB CF card, trying to remember or to re-learn what I once knew when I used my A4000 regularly. After I managed to get the system online with a PCMCIA-WiFi card the next thing I'll try to do is to get it to access my Diskstation via Samba.
That's me!
Cheers
Jens
