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I first had a play with an A1000 in 1985, and I knew then that I had to have one. The architecture was so much more advanced than any other home computer, the graphics and sound blew me away (I still remember being raptured by that awesome stereo boot-up sound), and the development documentation was fantastic. But the design was not finished and they were not available for sale in New Zealand at the time, so I stuck with my Amstrad CPC664 and waited.
In 1987 the A500 was released, but I bought an A1000 because I preferred the case design. The next model I got was the A3000, partly for the same reason. Then the A600 and A1200 came out, and I had to have those too. And thinking back on it, even the first PC I had (an IBM JX) also had a compact slimline case, as did subsequent 386DX and 486 PCs that I built. So it seems the case design was one of the main things that attracted me to the A1000.
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