My First Computer, an Amiga 500, was a single unit (apart from the screen, it could also be plugged into a TV, video was RGB out; not VGA) It had a full sized QWERTY keyboard, the "F Keys" only went to 10 and instead of a full set of Home, End, Delete, Pageup/down keys, etc. ; it had simply a "DEL" and "HELP" key; I never worked out what "HELP" was for, it never did anything in any programs. It had a built in 3.5" Floppy Drive which used Double-Density, Double-Sided floppy disks which weighed in at a meaty 880k, none of this High-Density lark
By default, it had 512k of RAM, which we had upgraded with a plugin board the size of an average graphics card today which upgraded the memory to 1MB and also had a battery backup for the Real Time Clock allowing the Amiga to ACTUALLY KEEP TIME WHILE TURNED OFF! WOW! The board was always falling out, im amazed it carried on working 'til the end, it was secured in using a rather large blob of Blue Tac
Well with all that blurb, you may think; Wow! what a pile of poo. But the games on it were fantastic, I emplore you to download an Amiga Emulator, Kick-Start ROM (Only if you owned the originals
) and a few games (Only if you owned the originals
) and give it a go, the Amiga was something special, I dont know where we'd be today without it. The film E.T. wouldn't have been produced in the same way without one for one
