I got my first PC in 97, that's how long I held out with my Amiga. At the time my Amiga 1200 had 42MB ram and a 68030 accelerator. I had carved a slit on its left side so that I could string an IDE cable out and use a cheap 3.5" HDD (which was sitting in a separate enclosure with its own power source).
When I switched it had already been painfully obvious for years that there would never be an Amiga capable of competing with PC again. It is in a way sad that it played out the way it did and it's easy for me to get nostalgic when I read pieces like this.
I actually moved my A1200 to the PC desktop case! My father and I moved motherboard and other components there (motherboard actually didn't quite fit - we needed to saw off a piece of it). Those were the days...
When I switched it had already been painfully obvious for years that there would never be an Amiga capable of competing with PC again. It is in a way sad that it played out the way it did and it's easy for me to get nostalgic when I read pieces like this.