Subj : Re: can i talk about my recently aquired amiga?
To   : StormTrooper
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Jun 21 2025 08:58 am

-=> StormTrooper wrote to RetroSwim <=-

 St> Kind of weird, they were kinda not popular here, although they had
 St> their one eyed fanboys.  A little like AppleIIs they had their own
 St> religion :P  I could probably count on one hand the number I actually
 St> saw out in the wild...

In college, most everyone who wasn't in CS got a Mac Plus on one of
those horrendous, Apple Credit cards with the 24% APR.

CS geeks had cobbled together ATs and the odd 386, using Procomm to
connect to big iron and Turbo C or MS C to compile locally.

I had an XT case with an AT motherboard bought at a swap meet. Soldered
in fsaster clock crystal. Most of the stand-offs didn't line up, so the
motherboard was secured to the case with one screw and pieces of
styrofoam. An RLL drive that sounded like a bathroom fan, keyboard port
didn't quite line up, and once in a while you had to jiggle the power
switch to get it to come on.

I only knew one Amiga user, come to think of it didn't even know they
had a simple compiler for student use!


 
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