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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: drewz21 on March 19, 2007, 05:10:55 PM

Title: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: drewz21 on March 19, 2007, 05:10:55 PM: What, in everyone's opinion, is the rarest model in the classic Amiga line? Also, which one is your personal favorite and why?

A1500?
A600?
A2500?

Any other model I may not know of?
Title: Re: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: PaSha on March 19, 2007, 05:15:53 PM: I dunno, the A2200 is rare, as is the CDTV-II, the A3400, A3000+, AA3000, Nyx etc
Title: Re: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: ddniUK on March 19, 2007, 05:18:40 PM: The Suzanne http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/suzanne.html or the Walker
Title: Re: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: Starrunner on March 19, 2007, 05:20:22 PM: I am not sure what would be rare or not. I was always fond of the A500 and my A3000 was a work horse. I knew a couple of people who had A600's. The first Amiga the community access TV station I worked in during high school was an A2500. Ahhh...the good old days.
Title: Re: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: odin on March 19, 2007, 05:21:58 PM: Do you mean production models only or also prototypes? When it comes to production models it has to be the C= A4000T (couple of hundred IIRC) although the CDTV is also rare, ~20.000 produced if I am not mistaken.
Title: Re: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: drewz21 on March 19, 2007, 05:23:00 PM: I was really referring to production models but I've already learned of some, I guess, prototype models I wasn't aware of.
Title: Re: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: Matt_H on March 19, 2007, 05:29:33 PM: If it's production models, then yeah, the Commodore 4000T. Only a few thousand at best.
Title: Re: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: pVC on March 19, 2007, 06:53:24 PM: A600 definitely isn't rare... and as A1500 and A2500 are practically same as A2000, I wouldn't call them rare either :)

Is there much difference between Commodore and Amiga Technologies A4000T models? I've seen many AT A4000T:s, but I don't think I've seen Commodore's.

In think that rarest non-prototype Amigas are A3000T and from mass market productions the CDTV (but I'd call it "rare" with quotation marks ;). A3500 is definitely one of the rarest.. I think it can be counted as non-prototype too :)
Title: Re: Rarest Amiga model?
Post by: Tahoe on March 19, 2007, 07:03:41 PM: Production systems it think either the A4000T (200 or so made by C=), or the A2500UX (special Amix version before the A3000UX came out). Only very few are really labeled A2500UX.
Title: Amiga 4000 with built in mepg playback
Post by: Crom00 on March 19, 2007, 07:05:34 PM: At the World of Commodore 93 in New York, commodore had an A4000 mpeg 1 player in a plexiglass case playing mpeg 1 video off the hard drive. The video being demo'd was a Bon Jovi video from the early 90's. I asked an exec if the hardware was on the motherboard or a plug in card, he didn't know anything about it really. He said it was just an experimental unit.

Later this experiment became the CD32 FMV unit.

Also there was a company called IVS playing streaming video off the hard drive. They had recorded a few minutes of Back to the Future and it was played back in HAM MODE off of a modifed A500 or A2000.