RE: Amiga A600 + A Horrible Surprise
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When it was time to go 16 bit my brother had just started working full time so he bought the Atari ST when it dropped in price. The Amiga 500 was still more expensive so nobody around us had one. Same reason everyone in my home town had speccy instead of C64, and we all used tapes instead of floppies! :)
Now I have a bunch of Amigas but I also have a couple of STs because they are still my first 16 bit love ;)
I got a 286 PC in 1992 I think, same time the A600 was announced. It was 12mhz and I chose the 40mb hard disk instead of a colour monitor because I wanted it for programming rather than games. That of course changed as the VGA+Sound Blaster PC become the dominant gaming platform :)
My first PC was a Pentium III 350MHz. Not sure what the disk was, but it had some Matrox graphics card and Yamaha sound card I think.
I had a summer job at Texas Instruments around 1984 and had a job of updating BIOS chips in their PCs to support drives bigger than 30MB. I had use of a 'portable' PC that had an early version of Windows. I've seen it all evolve, but my current PC is nothing special as I'm not a gamer.
I don't have the time or concentration for modern games, though I did try when my daughter got into them (xbox and switch etc). Last time I spent serious time on a game it was using DOSBox to play Warcraft II ;)
I played Half Life on my PC and that was about my last one apart from our Wii. Not really played with that for years, but revived it recently for Wii Fit. Games just eat time and I'd rather spend it on other things, such as music.