It was still 1991 when Chicken and me made some songs with trackers. First it was the SoundTracker on an Amiga500 and it sounded just experimental or funny what we made but then we used the StarTracker or Protracker for better results. Later as we got more MIDI-instruments and an Amiga2000 we used the OctaMed-Tracker.
I remember one party in the earlier days of our electronic music experiences where we played live with 6 Amigas just with the small 8 bit sample-box and we started a few of them by hand to get them in sync. LOL
Our first Sampler was a Hohner with 2 mb of RAM and we only could use floppies. The worst thing was that if you made a full disk dump and there was one read/write error on the disk the sampler automatically erases all samples in the memory and I remember one live act where this happend and the whole drums of the track were lost while we played.
It also took minutes till the samples were dumped in.
Nowadays it's a pleasure with all these excellent audio soft and hardware but I wouldn't miss the basics I learnt in these days. On the PC I sometimes make music with ReNoise due to nostalgic reasons. It is similar to the good old trackers.
By the way the release "nachbeben" on Pathfinder 04 was still programmed with the Amiga 2000 and OctaMed.
rob
Still this was all just fooling around; A friend had an atari with cubase back then where I have spent quite a few nights playing on. Then for about half a year together with a roommate we had a small studio with an atari, a cs1x and a A3000. It got quiet a few years then untill the summer of 2003 I had finally saved up for a studio of my own; ever since I discovered kvr and I became a hw/sw junk.
sory mark 
but I hope that you agree: some knobs in a studio are very useful...
So far I've not felt as much "at home" with no software or hardware as i did with FT2... 