It wasn't just British - they were _the_ home computer in New Zealand for a few years in the late 80s, early 90s. Aggressively marketed and priced well below th

It wasn't just British - they were _the_ home computer in New Zealand for a few years in the late 80s, early 90s. Aggressively marketed and priced well below the equivalent IBM clones, they sold well. An Amiga 500 was the first computer I bought with my own money - $NZ1900 (my entire life savings at 15). I taught myself C and never looked back. But the window for Amgias was short. By about 1993 the price of the clones was dropping and they were starting to get fast enough to overcome their hardware limitations. Once MS started marketing Windows machines to home users (especially when Win95 came out) the market for Amigas dried up completely.