- Joined
- Dec 20, 2006
- Messages
- 27,042
- Reaction score
- 812
- Points
- 113
- Location
- Lake Mary, Florida
- Your Mac's Specs
- 14" MacBook Pro M1 Pro, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
I wish I had some of the stuff I owned at one time.
Let's see.... I started off with a Commodore 64c (that was the one where they finally ditched the breadbox case and went with something that more resembles a modern keyboard). Then later, a 128. I lusted after an Amiga 500 when those came out, but couldn't convince the parents it was time for an upgrade until the oddball Amiga 600 came out. I saved my pennies and dimes and eventually was able to retire the 13" Zenith color TV I had attached to it, in favor of that very same Commodore 1084S monitor Dennis has in his picture. I believe I paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 for it... believe it or not.
When I got my first job, working as a clerk/cashier at an IGA market, I saved up and bought a used Amiga 2000HD, which was my first computer with an actual hard disk. If I remember correctly, it had a Quantum (remember them?) 50MB 3.5" disk mounted to a SCSI card, that sat in an expansion slot.
Years later, I stumbled upon someone trying to trade an Amiga 4000 that they had inherited from an uncle that passed away. They wanted something that ran Windows 95... so I quick cobbled together a PC from computer show parts and traded. I believe that machine was probably worth somewhere north of $3000 (at the time) because it had a full Video Toaster 4000 card in it - and those were still in high demand because Commodore had gone bankrupt, but the Video Toaster was still a highly sought after video editing solution.
I used that Amiga 4000 right up until 1999 or so. I even overclocked the Motorola 68040 from the original 25Mhz to 40MHz (I soldered in a new crystal oscillator, which was the only way to overclock back in the day) so that I could play Quake on it. Someone even wrote a Mac emulator (I believe it was called "Shapeshifter") and with a set of ROMs that I had harvested from a Mac at school, I was able to run OS 7 or OS 8 (as I recall).
After that, I finally relented and built a PC for myself, using an old Gateway 2000 full tower case that someone was going to throw out. Ah, those were the days...
Let's see.... I started off with a Commodore 64c (that was the one where they finally ditched the breadbox case and went with something that more resembles a modern keyboard). Then later, a 128. I lusted after an Amiga 500 when those came out, but couldn't convince the parents it was time for an upgrade until the oddball Amiga 600 came out. I saved my pennies and dimes and eventually was able to retire the 13" Zenith color TV I had attached to it, in favor of that very same Commodore 1084S monitor Dennis has in his picture. I believe I paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 for it... believe it or not.
When I got my first job, working as a clerk/cashier at an IGA market, I saved up and bought a used Amiga 2000HD, which was my first computer with an actual hard disk. If I remember correctly, it had a Quantum (remember them?) 50MB 3.5" disk mounted to a SCSI card, that sat in an expansion slot.
Years later, I stumbled upon someone trying to trade an Amiga 4000 that they had inherited from an uncle that passed away. They wanted something that ran Windows 95... so I quick cobbled together a PC from computer show parts and traded. I believe that machine was probably worth somewhere north of $3000 (at the time) because it had a full Video Toaster 4000 card in it - and those were still in high demand because Commodore had gone bankrupt, but the Video Toaster was still a highly sought after video editing solution.
I used that Amiga 4000 right up until 1999 or so. I even overclocked the Motorola 68040 from the original 25Mhz to 40MHz (I soldered in a new crystal oscillator, which was the only way to overclock back in the day) so that I could play Quake on it. Someone even wrote a Mac emulator (I believe it was called "Shapeshifter") and with a set of ROMs that I had harvested from a Mac at school, I was able to run OS 7 or OS 8 (as I recall).
After that, I finally relented and built a PC for myself, using an old Gateway 2000 full tower case that someone was going to throw out. Ah, those were the days...
Last edited:
