Hi, all. I finally found some space and spare cash to start restoring/upgrading my collection of vintage computers, and stumbled across this board, so I thought I'd say, "hello." I'll most likely be bothering all of you with technical questions in the near future.
So, about myself: my first computer was a VIC-20 in 1981 at the age of seven. Later on, my family upgraded to a C128. In high school, I talked my dad into agreeing to go 50/50 with me on an A500, and when the A1200 was announced I started saving up and it became the first computer I paid for completely on my own.
I kept using my A1200 until 1997 while I was in grad school, when I needed to be able to run Word and Photoshop (or a close equivalent) for my thesis work. Pricing things out, it would have cost as much as a Mac to upgrade my Amiga to something approaching the same performance (I only had an '030 board), so I swallowed my pride and bought my first Mac (hey, at least it wasn't Windows!).
I still have both of the Amigas, and found a pristine C128 at a resale shop to replace the long-gone family model. A friend even found a rather beat-up C64 while dumpster-diving a while back. I'm just getting started picking up replacement parts and updated hardware for these things, so my photo contribution is pretty boring. Still, enjoy!