Inside the Amiga 1000 (25th Anniversary)

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I had a 2 Megabyte RAM expansion for my Amiga 1000. This was so much RAM that I could put a bootable floppy into it and boot from RAM. The RAM-Disk survived reboots and some crashes.

Crashes happened quite often because the OS had preemptive multitasking but no memory protection.

I've still got an Amiga 3000 in a drawer around here somewhere that was working the last time I turned it on.

It was the last interesting computer I used as my primary machine, before I starting buying PCs. They were definitely ahead of their time.

Still have my Amiga 500 with 3rd party add on Hard Drive/RAM in a box plus 1080 monitor, extra floppy drive, modem, and lots of disks.....

unfortunately I just recycled my two A500's. They'd been sitting in the crawl space under the house and weren't being used. Not even sure they worked anymore. My 1080S broke several years (decades) ago so I hadn't used them in a while. One I remember had the 1MB chip ram upgrade that you did yourself by cutting a trace on the mobo between the 68000 and Agnus chips. Suddenly I feel old...

I have a bunch of 1200's w 040 accelerators, extra memory and whatnot boxed up somewhere. Still have a library of boxed games too... and Amiga Power of course ;)

The Amiga was so amazing. I truly wish that platform could have prospered instead of... DOS.

Link directly to the slideshow, rather than his blog:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/200083/inside_the_amiga_1000....

This article really brings back memories.

The first computer I ever owned.

Hayes 1200 baud external modem -- about the size of a paperback book, lots of flashing lights, and five-hundred bucks. I even had the sidecar, which as I remember was a little box that carried it's own PC. The whole thing was over $2K

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