1986, my boss at the time had an Amiga 1000 at work and the busy pointer caught me off guard? Who the heck uses "Zz" as a busy pointer?!?! Then I saw Marble Madness and I knew at that point I would have an Amiga. Did not get one until the A500 came out in 87. Amazing times, I used A-Talk III, Cygnus Ed with Lattice 4.x. Did not get a word-processor until ProWrite. Upgraded to an A2000 with Supra-Wordsync and additional 2MB RAM board. GREAT times.