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

[Steven Hirsch]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Mark McDougall wrote:

> On 17/04/2015 10:27 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>
>> Amigas rock!  I have a 500,600,1000,1200,2000,2500,3000 and 4000, along 
> with
>> some nice add-ons (hard disk for the 1000 among them).

> Wow, that's impressive!

Thanks - it's been 20+ years in the making!

> Back in the day I had an Amiga 500 with a 3rd party IDE interface that I 
> picked up late in the piece, so didn't get to play with much.
>
> Since then I've added a few (3?) more 500's, an official HDD, 1000, 2x1200 
> (one NOS), a spare 1200 mobo, a couple of 1200-compatible PCMCIA ethernet 
> cards, and a 3000. At one point I had nine Commodore monitors but only 3 
> survive - the others all failed in the same way. I also have way, way too 
> many disks, some MIB software, two (different) copies of the software 
> reference manual sets, Lattice C manuals, some programming books, a handful 
> of star cursor joysticks, light gun, PS/2 mouse interface and other stuff 
> I've forgotten about. The only thing I'm missing... is time to play with 
> them!

Same here...  The books and diskettes are packed in several overflowing 
storage bins.  This stuff really piles up.



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