The Amiga was so much fun. I had a 500 in the late 80's, then upgraded to a 3000. Some games, like Shadow of the Beast, were so amazing for the time. The OS was pretty advanced, too (real, pre-emptive multitasking in 512K of RAM, IPC using very lightweight message passing, etc.)
Ahh, nostalgia.. getting a second disk drive for my A500, using PowerPacker to pack the executables of often needed tools, use a menu editor to add them to the Workbench menu = my first taste of the external harddrive I got later. Which was quite the brick and had a proud capacity of 52 MB. The 4 megabyte RAM expansion, also huge... combined with the Action Replay module and the kickstart 2.0 ROM switcher, it all took up quite some space. Oh how I miss my Amiga 500; it died when I got carried away while soldering (after having sucessfully made a pause toggle by putting a switch between a pin from the expansion slot to mass). Ripping modules! I miss that, too. Later on, the A4000, playing Ultima VI with a speed increase of 35x (which had to make up for the games that refused to work on it)... configuring the crap out of MagicMenu, MUI, Directory Opus, and whatever I found on the Public Domain disks I ordered... discovering the Aminet CD series... all that music, the demos, oh. And yes, the games, obviously, all the pixel art and all those amazing composers.
Sorry for rambling, and regards to grafx2, Renoise, DeliPlayer, WinUAE, and whatever else keeps some of that spirit alive still ^^
Yep, my Amiga 500 was the first machine I had with a hard drive: a whopping 30 megs! I had to beg my parents to buy it for me for Christmas, being only 13 years old at the time. It also came with a 2 meg memory expansion, giving the Amiga a total of 3 megs of RAM, which was pretty decent for 1989 or so.
A year or so later, with some birthday money, I bought a copy of Lattice C and managed to teach myself C! That was basically the beginning of my interest in programming.
I got a used 20MB hard drive. After about 6 months it refused to spin up. My solution was to open it up(!), and manually help the motor spin up the platter - after that it'd keep running until I powered the machine down. So I'd keep it running most of the day. It lasted probably about another year after that, with me spinning up the drive by hand first time I booted every day...
I never played Shadow of the Beast much (honestly, it was not very well balanced in terms of difficulty in particular), but the intro got played endlessly - it was a fantastic effort for the time.
Around '94 or so I moved on to Linux.
I still miss the Amiga though.