[MC27]

Having stuck with the Amiga until '98, with an overly expanded computer - capable of playing Quake etc, it was the last real computer platform I cared for. All these useless companies that purchased it without a long term plan was exasperating. If anything, it's taught me to take a step backwards and avoid becoming tribal over any technology.

[tjr]

I hung in there with the Amiga until around 1996. I truly enjoyed that computer system, in a way I haven't enjoyed any computer since. Perhaps part of it was the overall novelty of personal computing, as there was still so much totally new development going on... but I sure didn't have that same enjoyment factor when using IBM-PC clones or even Macintoshes of the same era.

I think, maybe, somehow, probably unintentionally, the Amiga captured the 1970s/early-1980s "hacker spirit" better than any of the other personal computer systems. It wasn't a Lisp machine, and it wasn't a PDP-11, and it wasn't particularly used for artificial intelligence, but its users thoroughly enjoyed tinkering with it and making it do awesome things.

And awesome things it did.