I had an Amiga 3000 in 1991 (low-end, 16 mhz version.) I upgraded from an A500. It was amazing! Installing extra RAM was a bit of a pain, however (it used "ZIP"

I had an Amiga 3000 in 1991 (low-end, 16 mhz version.) I upgraded from an A500. It was amazing! Installing extra RAM was a bit of a pain, however (it used "ZIP" chips, not SIMMs) I taught myself C on that machine (Lattice, later SAS), a skill that served me for decades.