Comment If the Amiga had lived, I might be working in IT (Score 1) 415
I sometimes think that if the Amiga had lived on, I would be working in an IT or tech-related field today.
I had an A500 as a kid and later got an A1200 when I was about 13. On the A1200 in particular, I learnt the ins and outs of how AmigaOS worked including the command line, not just the GUI. I just loved all the clever things you could do to it, like assigning volume names to a directory or set of directories, the ease of multitasking, and how easy it was to plug in new libraries, new fonts, or any variety of new OS extension you wanted just by putting it in the right directory. I also loved the way that what you got on your screen in terms of the GUI actually represented the way the directories were set up on the computer, unlike the Windows of the day with its Program Manager.
Not long after I got the A1200, Commodore went to the wall and within a couple of years it was clear that the Amiga was dead. You couldn't get one here in Australia anymore for the most part and it didn't seem to be doing any better overseas. There was no commercial software and the magazines were closing down. I lost interest in computing generally, and when I finally replaced it with a Windows 98 PC a few years later, I didn't bother to learn the ins and outs of it - I just used it like a regular user.
I don't know what it was, I could just never get into the Windows PC and I still don't care about them today. I can still tell you the specs of my A1200 (OS 3.0, 14Mhz 68020, 10Mb RAM, 560Mb HDD in the end) but about all I can tell you about the one I have these days is that it has a Core Duo processor and it runs XP.
I had an A500 as a kid and later got an A1200 when I was about 13. On the A1200 in particular, I learnt the ins and outs of how AmigaOS worked including the command line, not just the GUI. I just loved all the clever things you could do to it, like assigning volume names to a directory or set of directories, the ease of multitasking, and how easy it was to plug in new libraries, new fonts, or any variety of new OS extension you wanted just by putting it in the right directory. I also loved the way that what you got on your screen in terms of the GUI actually represented the way the directories were set up on the computer, unlike the Windows of the day with its Program Manager.
Not long after I got the A1200, Commodore went to the wall and within a couple of years it was clear that the Amiga was dead. You couldn't get one here in Australia anymore for the most part and it didn't seem to be doing any better overseas. There was no commercial software and the magazines were closing down. I lost interest in computing generally, and when I finally replaced it with a Windows 98 PC a few years later, I didn't bother to learn the ins and outs of it - I just used it like a regular user.
I don't know what it was, I could just never get into the Windows PC and I still don't care about them today. I can still tell you the specs of my A1200 (OS 3.0, 14Mhz 68020, 10Mb RAM, 560Mb HDD in the end) but about all I can tell you about the one I have these days is that it has a Core Duo processor and it runs XP.
