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Re:Ask HN: Oldest piece of hardware a user could access the ... by jbjbjbjb on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:45AM (#25810572)
How come you use your Amiga regularly? Is there something specific you use it for?
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Re:Ask HN: Oldest piece of hardware a user could access the ... by _b8r0 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:28AM (#25811429)
I use it because I used them throughout the 90s and just find them really nice machines to use for a lot of things. Almost everything's offline first, but it's functional enough to get things done. Some things are more fiddly, but that's to be expected.

Most of what I do is creative, a mix of Art, music, programming, writing. I've done things like covid data analysis, I've written the odd letter on there, some of my newsletter gets written on there. I also use it for things like Usenet, IRC, Telegram etc. There's also a lot of really good games for it. I've heard classic 68k Mac owners have similar experiences. Of course, some say the Amiga is also the fastest classic Mac[1].

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph0gxzL3UI

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