



My Take:
I first encountered the Amiga in a Computer Store on Charleston SC, where I was stationed in the NAVY in the late 80's Early 90's. I was blown away with this Commodore on STEROIDS, my life in computers had 99% been the Mighty C64 but when my eyes beheld this powerful TRUE Multitasking Multimedia machine again I was instantly saying to myself " I MUST HAVE ONE". At first it was games games games, I played them I lived on this computer day and night during offcrew, it even made several patrols with me on the Ballistic Missile Boat SSBN 633 Blue USS Casimur Pulaski. The AMIGA rested between 4 Ballistic Missile Tubes I had to hooked to a Critical Power Bus so even if we lost out reactor it would get power from the Boats batteries. Amiga it this time put all other computers to shame from IBM, to MAC to the ATARI ST Series, which I do admit ATARI ST was pretty close to the All POWERFUL AMIGA500.


SPECIFICATIONS:
Motorola MC68000
7.16 MHz CPU
512k Chip RAM or 1 megabyte Chip RAM on motherboard
512k Fast RAM in trapdoor expansion bus (optional)
Maximum 8 megabytes Fast RAM
256k ROM or 512k ROM on motherboard
3.5 drive bay 2.5 drive mountable
3.5 880K internal floppy drive
Integrated keyboard
2 button mouse
A1000 sidecar expansion bus
A500 trapdoor expansion bus
Compact case
External power supply port
External floppy drive port
RS-232 serial port
Centronics parallel port
2 mouse/joystick ports
Monochrome composite video port
15kHz color RGB analogue video port
2 stereo audio output ports
Motherboard

Rear View
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As with the C64 there are too many games to name but I will name my Top 10 here

There are many other games that I really thought was fun, I hope to add them as time goes by.