[Coco] OT: Amiga 30th Anniversary event at the Computer History Museum

[Joe Grubbs]

I used my CoCo2 and my dad's aging Model 16 up until around 1991 (age 14?) when we purchased a state-of-the-art 33MHz 80386DX machine with whopping 4MB of RAM and a cavernous 133MB hard disk! :P Equipped with MS-DOS 5.0 (yuck) and Windows 3.0 originally, it seemed quite fancy. I had since learned Pascal and ended up doing most of my programming in Turbo Pascal (up to v5.5--the one with objects), and Turbo Pascal for Windows (which introduced me to Windows development). Oh memories...



> From: bill at armchairarcade.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:49:02 -0400
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Amiga 30th Anniversary event at the Computer History	Museum
> 
> I still have my original Amiga 500 as well that I used after my Commodore
> 64 and before switching full-time to a Pentium-90. Since that time I've
> added a 1000, two 1200s (one is now fully tricked out with 68030, 64MB RAM,
> 4GB CF, etc., and is the one I use most), 2000HD, and 600, as well as the
> CDTV and CD32. I'd love to get a 3000 and 4000, but both those are out of
> my price range these days and kind of redundant given what I already have.
> 
> I wonder what most CoCo users upgraded to back in the day? It seems a
> surprising number based on these comments moved onto the Amiga, though I
> suspect most moved onto some type of PC with the rest of the planet.
> 
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Mike Craig <mdcmike at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at ...> writes:
> >
> > >
> > >  I still have an Amiga 2000 with a 68020 and an Amiga 3000 with a 68030.
> > The Amiga 3000 is hooked up and and I play
> > > games on it frequently with my two daughters. I also own an Amiga 4000,
> > but unfortunately it is not
> > > functional at the moment. :(
> >
> > I still have my Amiga 500 with 1MB of RAM that I purchased back in 1989.
> > :-)
> >
> >
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