Heh, maybe I am asking the wrong people. :)

My first experience with a personal computer was messing around with my best friend’s C64. Then bunch of kids on the block got Amigas, and I somehow managed to convince my parrents that I desperately need one.

I used it mainly for gaming. I did mess around a little bit with the OS, customizing it and writing some really simple shell scripts but it was limited. I lacked easy access to introductory resourcess and samples that would let me get the hang of things. Most of the stuff I was able to find in magazines, or distributed with the priated floppies was to advanced or hardcore for me to use.

I only goit into coding much later on the PC.

My first machine had only 1 k of RAM memory so 1 M sounds pretty good. I think I’m revealing my age here tho. lol. It, the Amiga, was actually one hell of a machine far superior to any of the machines of its day. I never owned one but I did have some practice programming in that environment. Hmmm…don’t remember much now, but I did adore it. And yes it did have a nice GUI interface, much better than the early Windows, and certainly bettern DOS + Norton utilities. (too bad norton went down hill like it did. haha). However I was never much of a gamer, seemed a waste of time to me. I used computers then primarily for mathematical exploration, and simply for the joy of coding. Still do.

I am however surprised by “how few people here in NJ even know about Comodore Amiga computers.” Hmmm. maybe it’s the age of the ppl ya talk to. All programmers my age at least the ones I know either had one or wanted one, except perhaps for the die hard Apple fans. And hell even they heard of it. I truly hated to see the Amiga fail like it did and dissappear from the market. So anyway thanks for reminding me of this little bit of computer history.