Hi there!
I own quite a few Amiga models, and have used other models I don't currently
have in the past. Out of all the Amigas I use, and the three that are used
for the business I half own, the Amiga 1200 gives us the most trouble. Currently
it has 20 gig hard drive, blizzard 060 w/ 32 mb ram. It is stable for the most
part, but it took a long time to get it this way. It orignally had a blizzard 030
card in it, and that card died, but luckily didn't kill the motherboard. Another
problem is the power supply. The original power supply gets crazy if you hook too
many things on the A1200. You have to be careful not to draw more power than it
can put out.
We have almost no problems with our Amiga 4000s. They run great. Some people
have told me about a heat problem, but we have never had a problem, and our A4000s
are on 24hrs a day, 365 days a year.
The model that suprises me everyday, is the Amiga 3000. It is a desktop model
with 030/25 mhz, 16mb ram, 36 Gig IBM Scsi Drive (We just installed this!), x-surf
ethernet card. The motherboard on this computer is so dirty (I never clean it).
I bought it new in 1990. I also bought a Commodore 1950 monitor with it, and that
still works as well (We keep it as a backup monitor when one of our monitors goes
down!).
My suggestion to you is to get a Big Box Amiga (Amiga 3000, 4000). Very stable
machines. Plus, they are easy to expand. If you are looking for a dealer, we
buy a lot of our equipment from softwarehut (
www.softhut.com). One of there
sales representatives named Joe is really good. When you call ask for him.
Explain to him your situation, and he can hook you up (He has bailed us out
a number of times!). If you are still looking to get your A1200 back up, I
have a motherboard for it. Just contact me (yogi_amiga@yahoo.com), and we
can work something out.
Only Amiga Makes It Possible!
Yogi27
