CompuServe Messages

I'll never forget my first exposure to the Amiga. My A1000 arrived, without any disks. I knew there was another A1000 at a local dealership, so I went there. Of course, they were in the same boat – they had disks, but no manuals. I'm rather computer-literate. I thought I'd be able to figure out how to copy disks. Nope. Even to a 1985-era computer whiz kid, the Amiga was opaque. The Amiga has more little hacks like that… the multitasking encourages it. At least on the PC, we'd see conflicts between TSRs, and people would keep their hacks to a minimum. 🙂 Or DA conflicts ala the Mac. But no!!! I've seen impossible-to-use Amiga setups, because these people installed every goofy hack from here to West Germany, screen blankers, mouse movers, quick menu this and activate window that. Sheesh.