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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

My dad, my classmate's family, and I all had one in the early '90s. An old friend collected (probably still does) them and had a variety in his closet. I think we can safely say 'at least around 20' now.

Dad was also in a commodore user group back before the modern internet. Those meetings were always fun.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can definitely account for 1.

[–] naticus 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can definitely put me down for 0 because my parents didn't love me enough.

[–] friend_of_satan 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Put me down for 0 too because we were poor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Write me for 0 too. Before my time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Put me down for one Amiga 1000 (which I still have with the 2MB expansion), I found a used one for sale and snagged it for $300 (before the A500 or any other models were released). I thought it was a great deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had an A500 and the 40MB drive was as expensive as the computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I remember when me and a friend both had C64s and he got a 20MB HDD for it. He said "bring your floppies over and we'll swap software, I have tons of space now!" Big surprise, I had way more floppies than he had drive space. 😆 These days I don't mess around, I have around 105TB of storage with room for expansion as drives get cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/ddb24685-cd25-4570-83f4-5c6521a03d26.jpeg

https://fs-uae.net/

FS-UAE integrates the most accurate Amiga emulation code available from WinUAE. FS-UAE emulates A500, A500+, A600, A1200, A1000, A3000 and A4000 models, but you can tweak the hardware configuration and create customized Amigas.

or:

https://www.ebay.com/b/amiga/bn_21819347

[–] paddirn 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My Dad had one when we were growing up, so it’s definitely ≥2.

[–] HarriPotero 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] paddirn 2 points 2 months ago

Ok, so they produced at least one, we know that for sure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

More than 2 but less than 2 trillion.

[–] gcheliotis 4 points 2 months ago

Lusted after one as a teenager but could not afford one. It was a bit of a luxury item where I grew up.

[–] tabular 3 points 2 months ago

Not even the taxman?

[–] fross 1 points 2 months ago

I got an Amiga 500 in 1989 and adored it for a good ten years.

5 years ago I donated it. To a (computer) museum. That made me feel old.

[–] Num10ck 0 points 2 months ago