The Commodore Amiga

It cost me half my salary for a few months but I had finally gotten my dream computer. No not my Alienware PC, my Amiga 2000 with Bridgeboard! That was a sweet machine when I was finally done putting it together. Here are the specs as I remember them:

Amiga 2000

• 8MB Fast Ram


• 2MB Chip Ram (Fat Agnes)


• Commodore Flicker Fixer card


• Commodore AT Bridgeboard


• DCTV


• GVP 68030 Accelerator card


• Syquest 44MB removable hard drive


• Quantum 105MB SCSI hard drive

I will always remember the first day the computer arrived. I unboxed it and before I even got to play with it I decided I wanted to put a power splitter cable inside even though I didn't have another hard drive to put in. The amiga power connector was not keyed so I ended up plugging the Y splitter cable backwards. I switched the computer on and I heard a sizzling noise and a pop and part of one of the chips from the hard drive came flying out of the machine. I was devasted. I waited months to get the machine and I destroyed it in minutes. I had to wait about a month before I got the computer back again. After that experience I was much more careful about plugging things in.
   I was really into graphics and doing 3D rendering using the Imagine software. It would take days to create a 3D animation that only lasted a few seconds but for the time it was amazing. Microsoft Windows could not compare to running the Amiga OS on a hard drive with a decent amount of ram.