$755 and 8 days to go

[Olecranon]

I'm speechless how much this is going for  :-o

Phase 5 Blizzard PPC

[Olecranon]

 
by LawlessPPC on 2006/8/13 12:39:45
 
no its not i have one of the very first ones and it cost me £659 plus p&p fom white knight technologies and bare in mind you cannot make an a1200 go quicker than this even now!!!

This makes me chuckle..  And it brings me to the original reason I started this thread.  It befuddles me how anyone can think paying $700+ to get their A1200 to a mind blowing (or perhaps numbing) 240Mhz is a good idea.  Having the fastest A1200 on the planet reminds me a bit of that joke about winning the special olympics.

I have no problems with the Ebay listing.  I'd love to get that kind of crazy money for some decade old hardware.  Anyone want to pay me $400 for a 900Mhz slot type AMD CPU?  :lol:

I know the old saying that something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it..  But when it comes to classic Amiga equipment, some people just dont know any better.

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by bigpoppa on 2006/8/15 1:33:22

If I remember correctly I paid slightly over $900 US for my Cyberstorm 68060 (and it doesn't even have the PPC chip on it.)

This auction makes me suspect though.

I'm not sure I would actually admit to that  :lol:

Unless... you purchased it brand new in the mid 90's when it was state of the art technology.  In 1997 I bought a P2-400Mhz cpu with an ASUS MB that had LVD SCSI for $1000.  So I'm not beyond forking out crazy money on computer hardware.  That was as fast as you could get though.  Everyone at work was amazed because I was pulling 70FPS on quake 2 with dual voodoo 2's  :-D

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by sdyates on 2006/8/15 12:55:38

Anyone want an A2000 with 030 gvp accelerator and scsi II for some crazy amount of money?

Seriously though, what would you gusy expect something liek that to go for? the A2000?

Afterall, I have two A3000

My guess..  Probably $100ish usd.  Lets face it, that machine can run 80% of the software that was ever written for the Amiga, so it's a great retro-gaming machine.  It sounds similiar to a machine I just purchased.  It was an A2000 with GVP 50Mhz 68030, Flicker Fixer, and GVP I/O extender card for $150.  Figure $50 for the flicker fixer, so your at $100.