I still have an ancient Amiga somewhere in my house. Best computer I ever bought.

Reminds me of this kids in the hall sketch

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cman: People tend to not give Commodore Radio Shack their due credit.

While IBM pc's were for the businessmen, Apple II's were for the middle class, Commodore the TRS-80 was for the rest of us.

For the first time regular people could afford a home computer.

FTFY

Nu-nu-nu-Newtek

Wow, that was horrible. Somebody needs to learn to do some editing.

:( that video made a tear come to my eye ...I am a huge Amiga fan.

I have an irrational love affair with my 3000. I still blow kisses to it when I walk by. My friends just don't understand.

Surfing Gopher, mudding, Psygnosis games, Lightwave, Scala, Octamed... had so much fun on that thing. It just blew all other home computers out of the water.

Perlin Noise: :( that video made a tear come to my eye ...I am a huge Amiga fan.

I have an irrational love affair with my 3000. I still blow kisses to it when I walk by. My friends just don't understand.

Surfing Gopher, mudding, Psygnosis games, Lightwave, Scala, Octamed... had so much fun on that thing. It just blew all other home computers out of the water.

Deluxe Paint, Starglider 2, Amiga Space Hulk, Dungeon Master... I could go on and on and on

Perlin Noise: Deluxe Paint, Starglider 2, Amiga Space Hulk, Dungeon Master... I could go on and on and on

Sensible Soccer, the Secret of Monkey Island, Lemmings, Rainbow Islands, SWIV, Damocles, Pinball Dreams, Turrican 2, Wings... oh yes, good times indeed.

My first computer was a Vic-20. Stayed brand loyal all the way up to the Amiga 3000. I still play around with UAE (new window) when I'm feeling nostalgic.

Snapper Carr: My first computer was a Vic-20

I attempt to collect commodore computers ...and I'm on the market for a Vic-20 ...very much wish I had one. That or a Pet.

Currently still mess around with my:
C64 (3 of them) plus 2 working drives
128 (2 of them, one in box) plus 2 drives (one in box)
Amiga 500,1000 (2, one in box), 2000, 3000

Tons of software, monitors (some in box) and various accessories.

/so few around here I can brag to... thanks for humoring me.

LesserEvil: Hey Commodore employee-guy, 1999 called, and they want their computer technology back.

/what I did there, see it?

yep

Perlin Noise: Snapper Carr: My first computer was a Vic-20

I attempt to collect commodore computers ...and I'm on the market for a Vic-20 ...very much wish I had one. That or a Pet.

Currently still mess around with my:
C64 (3 of them) plus 2 working drives
128 (2 of them, one in box) plus 2 drives (one in box)
Amiga 500,1000 (2, one in box), 2000, 3000

Tons of software, monitors (some in box) and various accessories.

/so few around here I can brag to... thanks for humoring me.

We used to carry around a list with a the games we had. So that we could "trade." It was huge.

Fast Hack'em FTW!

StoPPeRmobile: We used to carry around a list with a the games we had. So that we could "trade." It was huge.

Game trading was HUGE back then. Groups used to get together weekly ...alas, I was too young to be in that crowd (early teens). Still hang out with a few of those guys though. We talk about the good ole days of bulletin boards and zip ram!

Pad five, please.

I remember when the C64 came out...are you kidding me? 64K!?

Up until then it was all 16 and 48k for the most part.

/get off my lawn

Another Vic-20 as a first computer user here. Upgraded to the C-64 when it came out. My happiest Christmas memory was back when our family was pretty tight on cash, but my dad managed to snag me up a 1541 disk drive for Christmas. It was greatness!

I never could afford the Amiga, but we moved to IBM clones shortly after that time.

C-64 remains my most time spent with emulating retro games. Temple of Apshai, Telengard, Alternate Reality: The City just to name a few.

Hello? Is there an editor in the house??

MikeyistheDevil: Telengard

Awesome! ..I played the hell outta that hard ass game! Also, Legacy of the Ancients, Jumpman, Impossible Mission, Bruce Lee, Mail Order Monsters and countless others. Had to go to a friends to do it. I still have that old machine.


When I was 15, I had a choice between a car or an Amiga 3000. The answer was obvious and I didn't get a drivers license till I was 19. Didn't need one :P

Thanks to that gift, I am now an IT professional

It took me a while, but I finally managed to reacquire the computer model that brought me from the casette tape era to the wonderful world of the floppy disk.



And it is amazing what $75 on Craigslist will occasionally buy you.

Perlin Noise: Snapper Carr: My first computer was a Vic-20

I attempt to collect commodore computers ...and I'm on the market for a Vic-20 ...very much wish I had one. That or a Pet.

Currently still mess around with my:
C64 (3 of them) plus 2 working drives
128 (2 of them, one in box) plus 2 drives (one in box)
Amiga 500,1000 (2, one in box), 2000, 3000

Tons of software, monitors (some in box) and various accessories.

/so few around here I can brag to... thanks for humoring me.

Good for you. I've still got my Sinclair Spectrum, ICL PC, OPD and my old self-made PC. Some pics in profile, from the seventies.

Incidentally, did you know that the Commodore Pet wasn't called that in France, because 'pet' means 'fart'?

me thinks piracy helped kill off the amiga. 90% of my software at the time was downloaded from illegal BBS sites. it's my understanding commodore made part of it's money from licensing.

I for one am impressed how clean that place is for being the "last" day.

"Hey, anybody seen my amiga mouse?"

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$300 for the amiga 500 and $600 for a courier hst modem that was 19.2k when everything else was 14.4k to pirate from the best bbs's. $125 for the 512k ram expansion and $80 for the 2nd disk drive. i think i bought both my c64c and the amiga at toys r us.

cman
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Nerdgasm

Oh, you like it when I post dirty pics, don't you?

More from that same $75 haul.



And my Commodore 64C with network cartridge. Yes, this m#%@#$@er can get on the Internet. Or it could before I moved it to the new 128D with the SD card reader that works like a hard drive.

First computer was a C64. For the first few months I had it, my mom would have to check on me to make sure I was still alive.

10 POKE 53280,1
20 POKE 53281,0
30 POKE 53280,0
40 POKE 53281,1
50 GOTO 10
RUN

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That made me sad. Used to be a huge Amiga fanboy. Interesting side note: The old Commodore HQ in Westchester is now QVC's HQ. I understand their studios used to be C='s assembly floor.

Perlin Noise: :( that video made a tear come to my eye ...I am a huge Amiga fan.

I have an irrational love affair with my 3000. I still blow kisses to it when I walk by. My friends just don't understand.

Surfing Gopher, mudding, Psygnosis games, Lightwave, Scala, Octamed... had so much fun on that thing. It just blew all other home computers out of the water.


Speedball 2 was my poison. I logged many many hours into that game playing against college buddies. And I still find myself randomly spouting Warlords quotes: "Orcs of Kor, for you the war is over." Now that I think about it, it's really odd how often I find a chance to say that line.

cman:
I'm jealous. I am not kidding. I wish that I could have such a good collection :(

It's really not that hard, except for the 128D. That was tough and a bit pricy. It had a small problem that needed tweaking to fix up. The 1902A monitor was just lucky as I found a local person selling an amazingly well kept setup. All you need to do is hit Craigslist often and look. Or eBay. Stuff is cheap.

The gfx card for my Amiga 4000T was more expensive than my current PC.

/Good times

I was just given a vic 20 with cassette drive and a bunch of carts by a coworker. he found it in a barn. I plan a full resto at some point. I will add it to the collection...
C64
3 A500s
A2000
A2500
Bunch of tandy stuff too.

I sure miss the days when the computer did what YOU asked it to do, not what microsoft suggests....

"Gandalf cleaves your skull."

I found a VIC-20 at a garage sale back in the '90s and I still have it. It came with a game called Cosmic Cruncher, a Commodore 1530 C2N-B Datasette, and a whopping 3-kilobyte memory expansion cartridge. I collect vintage Macintosh computers now and am a die-hard Apple guy, but I fully recognize the significance Commodores had on the market and the potential they presented.