Hoax or true? Petro could get a batch of 1500x A1200

[XDelusion]

There might also be some CD32s. I remember ther was a massive sale/stock dissapearance when CBM went bust.

I heard of numbers of about 15000 units, but then it could have been just nonsense gossip.

1,500 is the number Petro quoted to me.

EDIT: 1,500 units, not 15,000.

[Lord Aga]

Holy crap. We'll be knee deep in Amigas.

[Ral-Clan]

If it is 15,000 units, then that would actually be bad for the seller.  It would saturate the remaining small market there is and drive prices down.  15,000 units would probably be equal to the amount of total dedicated Amiga users left in the world, perhaps.

It is be kind of neat to think that there might be 15,000 brand spankin' new Amigas sitting somewhere, though!

[XDelusion]

Sorry guys, my mistake. I double check his message to me.

It was 1,500 units, not 15,000 units.

[Ral-Clan]

Sorry guys, my mistake. I double check his message to me.

It was 1,500 units, not 15,000 units.

That seems more realistic.  I thought there might be an extra zero in there!  Could you even fit 15,000 boxed Amigas in a single warehouse?

[danwood]

Hmmn just wondered if this could be related to the warehouse worth of A1200s that were rumoured to have gone missing during the Escom/Gateway handover?

http://moobunny.dreamhosters.com/cgi/mbthread.pl/amiga/expand/76089

I remember Bill Mcewen trying to track them down for a few years back in the early 00s.

[Ryu]

I want one... no wait... I want two! :-)

[Akiko]

I hope he sells only 1-2 per person giving people enough time to gather up the money a chance, otherwise
the greedy profiteers on eBay will be hoarding them by the crate load and selling them at 5 times the price.

[magnetic]

Akiko
Thats probably a good idea. But the man is a business man so I'm sure he wants to dump them fast. Who the heck wants to process 1500 seperate orders?

[Argo]

Crap, guess that means the value of my A1200 just went down.  
I wonder what condition they have been stored in. Also, I think we are talking a few shipping containers full.

[runequester]

I wonder about the condition they've been kept in, and whether there might be any faulty electronics after sitting in a box for 20 years.
 
Anyone has experience there?

[bbond007]

wow! thats like 1500 MFLOPS if you fire all those bad boys up at once.

[bbond007]

I wonder about the condition they've been kept in, and whether there might be any faulty electronics after sitting in a box for 20 years.
 
Anyone has experience there?

I bought a NOS CD32 that turned out to be in excellent physical condition... but yeah.. it never worked very well. But I have read that NTSC CD32s has all sorts of issues even when new.

With a 1200 as long as the KB and case are nice, you could get the MB reworked with new caps and such.

[LoadWB]

I bought a NOS CD32 that turned out to be in excellent physical condition... but yeah.. it never worked very well. But I have read that NTSC CD32s has all sorts of issues even when new.

With a 1200 as long as the KB and case are nice, you could get the MB reworked with new caps and such.

Yeah.  The NOS CD-32 I bought about six years ago has a flakey CD drive, and I recall the same thing as you about the drives.  Spectacular condition otherwise.  I'd like to think that someone like Amigakit or Vesala (I'm not sure who's active in Amiga stuff these days) might be able to pick up some of these units and provide optional testing.

[bbond007]

Yeah.  The NOS CD-32 I bought about six years ago has a flakey CD drive, and I recall the same thing as you about the drives.  Spectacular condition otherwise.  I'd like to think that someone like Amigakit or Vesala (I'm not sure who's active in Amiga stuff these days) might be able to pick up some of these units and provide optional testing.

i think the drive works ok, just the machine only worked for 20 minutes before it would not run anything and just start crashing or guru... last time i tried to boot it up it did nothing at all...

[haywirepc]

I hope they are in good working condition. I'd love a new a1200.

Everyone getting this excited about this just shows that someone really should make a new classic amiga from fpga arcade or netami. People would but it, especially if it was reasonably priced.