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Title: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: TheMagicM on October 12, 2006, 10:19:32 PM

Price be damned.. which is your dream Amiga or Commodore?

Myself.. I have alot of Amiga's..but the one I want is a Amiga 1000.  Absoloutely MINT.  NIB.  For example..in a box like redrumola was selling on ebay.  I wouldnt use it though, just let it sit in a box with the rest of my close to mint/clean Amiga's.

Funny thing.. I sell off my Amiga stuff without much of a care but the 8bit machines I keep around.

I would *LOVE* to have a MINT VIC-20 system w/a VIC-1541.  Again I have about 4 8bitters but not mint, just good condition.



-Alex

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: keropi on October 12, 2006, 10:33:03 PM

my dream amiga??? I payed the price and now have it... a ppc/g-rex 4000...  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: redrumloa on October 12, 2006, 10:40:07 PM

I have a buttload of C= stuff in my personal collection, but it's all heavily used so fair to good condition. I would LOVE to have a NIB Commodore 128D. Heck, I'd love to collect just about any 8bit C= NIB.

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: tonyvdb on October 12, 2006, 10:56:43 PM

I still would love to get my hands on a real A4000T but they are just way to pricy for me. (I just had to plop down $20,000 for a newer minivan because the one I had the motor went on it and GM wont fix it even though its a known issue) :-o

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: odin on October 12, 2006, 11:18:42 PM

A3000T for me. I had an A1200 in a surplus A3kt housing once, that was a pretty big insult to the A3kt case to be honest =).

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: Ral-Clan on October 12, 2006, 11:27:17 PM

I already have a pretty darned good VIC-20 collection: with 1540 disk drive, 1525 printer, all the original Commodore cartridges, etc. etc.

But I'd love to own a PET 2001 with chicklet style keyboard and built-in datasette!  First computer I ever used back in 1979.

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: humppa on October 12, 2006, 11:28:58 PM

A mint SX64 would be great, but even a C65 would do.  :lol:

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: spihunter on October 12, 2006, 11:32:21 PM

I want a mint Commodore Colt!!! :-D  OK just kidding.... :-)

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: techie on October 12, 2006, 11:33:55 PM

Personally I'd like to have two of every Commodore ever made, one in NIB condition to keep on display and one in good condition to play around with.

Oh and a bigger apartment and/or house to put them all in  :-)

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: recidivist on October 13, 2006, 02:07:43 AM

They aren't exactly mint but I have two Colts.Also Pet 2001, and a couple other numbers but not the original chicklet keyboard model.

Also have a Commodore 386 laptop.Must try running 64 emulator to freak out some people.

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: stopthegop on October 13, 2006, 03:05:55 AM

For C= stuff, its a tie for the ultimate, cost-no-object, dream machine.  Either an original NIB A3000T or an ESCOM A4060T (though I'm not sure if this qualifies as "C="?  But, if it is permissable to broaden the category a little bit, I think its also worth mentioning another ultra-rare digital "objet-d'art" that would surely fetch in the several thousands of dollars if one were ever put up at auction.  That would be the super-sleek Atari STbook, the modern laptop that was made many years before laptops (or even desktops for that matter) became "modern".    

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: Tomas on October 13, 2006, 03:11:03 AM

I really would like an a3000 or a a4000. The only amigas i have owned was a500, a2000 and the a1200. Currently have 3 a500 and a towered a1200.

I also would like a c128d which i sadly had but i was young and dumb so i sold it.

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: adz on October 13, 2006, 03:42:54 AM

A3000T for me too, fortunately I already have a mint C128D :-D

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: TjLaZer on October 13, 2006, 04:09:00 AM

For me the Commodore A4000T for sure!!  In presentible shape of course, does not need to be MIB.  I already have a nice A3000T and a NIB C=128D!  ;)

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: adz on October 13, 2006, 04:11:49 AM

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TjLaZer wrote:

...I already have a nice A3000T and a NIB C=128D!  ;)

Lucky {bleep} ;-)

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: Hyperspeed on October 13, 2006, 05:02:31 AM

How does one go about identifying a C= A4000T?

There's QuikPak, Amiga Technologies and a variety of third party cases and clones - they even have the see-thru window which makes it harder.

And to top it off there's some with a garish NewTek sticker on!

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: Damion on October 14, 2006, 03:21:46 AM

Mint 64C for Prophet64... and I just acquired one NIB, so I'm happy about that! :-)  I was also happy to pay a "reasonable" price for it, considering I've seen a few go for over $200 on ebay lately. (Which is totally ridiculous for any 64, IMHO.) In addition, I picked up a new 1581 drive kit, so that's pretty cool.

Also on my list:

C128D

1571

A500+

A600

And a few custom chips (both amiga and 8-bit) for some other projects I'm working on... one of them invloves a mint A500, an Acard SCSI-IDE converter, and an old GVP A530 Turbo I have laying around. I picked up the A530 for free, and it works, but the casing is trashed so I'm not sure what to do about that yet.

BUT... to be honest, anything I buy at this point would be simply for collector purposes, mostly to sell at a later date. I'll keep my first few computers for sentimental reasons... everything else has (or will have) a price.

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: McVenco on October 14, 2006, 07:37:47 AM

I've always wanted to have an A1200, which I now have, so that dream has come true :-). I'm not much into retrosystems other than the Amiga, so I wouldn't think I'd really like to have something else. I do have a pretty good looking C64 though.

But if money would be no expense, I would love to have the three great bigbox Amiga's (A2k, A3k, A4k), in mint condition and well expanded (060's, gfx cards etc.) sitting next to eachother on my desk. Man, that would be a sight :-D

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: vr00mie on October 14, 2006, 08:25:18 AM

I always wanted a CD32 and a CDTV, now I got both. I always wanted a 4000, now i got one... I guess I'd love to have a 4000T, but i'm pretty satisfied with what I got right now...

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: Oli_hd on October 14, 2006, 10:28:26 AM

I want an Amiga 4000T, my A4000D in a tower isnt good. :-(
If I see one that isnt expensive Im going to get it..

Also I always keep an eye out for any old Amiga prototypes and such like, so if Dave Haynie wants to put his Amiga Nyx back up on Ebay I will bid again! :)

also to finish my collection I need an A3000T, Ive got my eyes on an A3000T motherboard at the moment but I should wait for a complete one I guess.
(Then its just an A1500 and the A4000T above and I have the full set)

Title: Re: Is there any Commodore you'd want?
Post by: djbase on October 14, 2006, 11:08:10 AM

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How does one go about identifying a C= A4000T?

There's QuikPak, Amiga Technologies and a variety of third party cases and clones - they even have the see-thru window which makes it harder.

And to top it off there's some with a garish NewTek sticker on!

1. check the case
2. check the sticker on board and case

That would be an C= 4000T:
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/photo.php?lid=2434&cid=12