My wife is looking at me strangely as I carefully lift the 'beige box' out of it's packing. It's seen better days, but the 'new to me' Amiga 2000 is pretty much just how I remembered it. I set it up on the kitchen table and powered it up - no monitor cable so it's in black and white - neither disk drive will boot up - and it's sporting the uber-old Workbench 1.3 logo. It's gonna need some TLC.
So... why? Why buy a computer that's probably 20 years old and barely working?
Nostalgia I guess - I'm at a point in life when I keep looking back at how much fun I used to have messing around with computers - and how now it's just a functional part of my life.. my life being where I go to work - edit commercials all day long, come home, eat, check the web, watch TV and then sleep.
The last huge creative rush I felt was when I first hit up Second Life, probably 4 years ago (this is the EARLY Second Life - not the realm of scam artists, hucksters, and sexual deviants it is now). Linux had it's rush back in the late 90's - but thats faded, and so I look back to the first computer I got really passionate about programming.....
And there it is in a nutshell.
So what am I going to do with it? What I always enjoyed doing - creating and programming. Which brings us here - Somewhere I can post my journey, and hopefully keep myself a little motivated for the (hopefully) long journey ahead... In SubGenius terms, I'm trying to take back a little slack in my life - reclaim a little fun and productivity that's been missing for a while.
More to come..... for now, Cheers!
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