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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: don27dog on May 20, 2008, 02:13:06 PM
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Out of curiosity I was wondering if there has ever been a study done to see approximately how many Miggy's are still alive and in use today?
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I got 2 fully working - an a1200 and an a500!
You have to start somewhere :D
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No amiga has ever been alive to my knowledge, so 'not many' should be alive today.
About the 'in use' part, that's anyone's guess. AFAIR there are no *reliable* estimates of how many amigas were ever produced. An unknown miniscule fraction of which is probably hoarded by the about 50 people who regularly visit amiga.org.
:-P
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I disagree! Killing an Amiga will get you the death penalty in atleast the spanish speaking countries!
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don27dog wrote:
how many Miggy's are still alive and in use today?
86 million billion.
Seriously, if you know, I will know. AFAIK there aren't even any remote numbers of how many Amigas ever were made, let alone how many still are around on this world.
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I have about 25 working if that helps your count... :p
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I wonder how many people actually do read A.org....
For what it's worth the Deneb press release news item has had over 1,500 reads....
I'm sure Wayne could tell us more if it were of interest....
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I have, in full working order:
2 - A4000T - mint condition (Escom)
1 - A4000 Rev. D (CR) - excellent condition
1 - CD32 with SX32 - excellent condition
1 - A4000D (in tower case) with CS PPC - good condition
1 - A4000D Dead :)
So, you can count 5 working classic Amigas from me :)
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I have:
1- A4000T
4- A4000D (one in tower)
2- A1200
3- A2000
1- A3000
4- A500
1- A600
1- CD32
1- CDTV
then you have 18 working classic on your list :)
Buzz
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There's no way to know, but my own home computer lab has become a bit of a sanctuary where Amigas can find safety from the cruel, hard world. Got six live ones and two dead ones at present. (Need me a cheap 500 next.) The dead ones have donated vital organs so that others might enjoy a better quality of life in their senior years. (Have I carried the metaphor too far?)
Seems there are more Amigas in use than actual users, as so many people have multiple machines. A measure of the activity by unique users on all the fora might give an idea of how many users are hyper-active. I'd love to know how many Deneb USB cards get sold as another type of measure of the enthusiasm for the classic hardware. Looks like I was lucky to get one of the first batch that was sold out at AmigaKit.
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For me:
2 x A4000 (ones dying tho :( )
1 x A1200
1 x A500+
I think that will do for now :D
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Only 5 in this house.
3 * A1200
2 * A600
and two A500s with duff Chip RAM, one of which has kindly donated its floppy drive to one of the A1200s.
My Dad's got about another 3 A1200s, a 500 and a 500+ in the loft, I hope they still work.
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1* A4000
2* A2000
1* A3000
1* A1200
also 1 dead A1200 and A500
Wol..
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My A4000 was delivered today (A UPS email says it's in my garage). It was one of the 20 sold on eBay last week and I hope it works!
Also, I've got:
1 x A3000 NTSC
1 x A2000 PAL/NTSC ECS
1 x A1200 PAL
2 x A1200T NTSC
1 x CD32 PAL
All of which will be on eBay next month so that I can clear up some space in my office. I don't think it's fair for me to just hang onto machines so that they just gather dust and I'd rather see them end up in the hands of user or at least a collector who will display them.
Oh, and a Minimig! :)
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I have roughly 50 working Amiga's.
But I don't think that's what this thread was meant to be; a count.
Seeing that there are no fixed numbers on sold Amiga's makes it even more hard to find out how many of those survive today. I do find them in the strangest places, I am picking up a couple A2000's, A1200's and A500's in a ZOO! (they used them in info stands)
Also there are many stories of people finding them in the dump or skip, makes you wonder how many end up there without anyone seeing...
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To reply with regard to original posting...
I guess something between 10,000-15,000 units, disregarding total undisclosed production run for whole platform, I find this figure irrelevant. I'm basing this figure upon a fact this assumptions:
1) Hardcore Amiga user/fan MUST know/heard for A.ORG and therefore is a member
2) Non-hardcore Amiga users/fans vanished on the turn of century, meaning A.ORG is one of maybe 10 sites on the Net still dealing with platform
3) A hardcore Amiga user on A.ORG is more than probably also active member on other forums and vice versa
4) There are over 6000 memebers over here, suppose at least 50% active and alive
5) An average memeber has a least a 4 machines in average
6) Members are still mortal, unfortunatelly.
IMHO, it would be more important to get the accurate numbers on Amiga users, that's the only way platform stays forever.
Not a pink perspective.
Sometimes I got that stupid feeling someone made a bad kiddy joke showing what a dreams are made of and then set the lights-out.
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there are millions of potential amigas out there using aros or some varient of uae lets keep going :-D
seriously i think the 10 to 15k might be fairly accurate but i also think it is irrelavent.
number of machines isnt as important to me as number of users and that to me is were aros and uae become important. when it becomes possible to use aros full time there is the potential for alternitive os fans to switch. not everyone loves linux and many people dont like windows.
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I have:
1 CDTV
1 A500
1 A1000
1 A2000
1 A4000 towered
All work and I use the A500, A2000, and A4000 fairly regularly. The only other computer I have is a Franklin Wordmaster that I've had for ages and still use as well.
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Lockon_15 wrote:
Hardcore Amiga user/fan MUST know/heard for A.ORG and therefore is a member
Nonsense. There are tons of users in non-English speaking countries who just stick to websites/communities in their native languages. Germany for instance has a huge number of Amiga users of which only a small number visits here. And I know of a few people in Holland who use Amigas for fun but don't even visit Amiga sites on the Internet at all.
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I have just one.. An old A1000, with rgb monitor, extra floppy and A590 hard disk/fastram extension. It was working well last time I used it, but it's been long time since...
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Here I have two..uA1c + A1200 and using it every day.. (no PC here)
And my brother have one A1200/040/40/+AteoBus,GFX,network....
:-D :-D
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Ooh there must be at least 100 of them out there....
BANG
erm 99?
;-)
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6 complete + 1 semi working a4000d
1 A4000T / Quikpak 060 board
1 A4000D / CSPPC 233/50
1 A4000D / Warp 040 @ 40 mhz
1 A4000D / stock 030
1 A2000 / stock
1 A500 / stock
1 semi working A4000d board / dead video slot and parallel port
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i have an A1000, A3000, A4000, A1200 ans a CD32. Thats 4 plus what every1 else has:)
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I've got an A500 and a dual boot Amithlon system, if that counts. ;-)
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All but one of my Amiga's are still running (1 A1200).
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I have:
1 A1200 setup in tower
1 A500 desktop
1 A2000 in desktop
And they are working very nice
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I have two (or tree) more A1200, tree A500 (all kick 1.3), and one A2000 spare main boards.
None of them are for sale, but i am trying to collect more components to put them in a fully working order.
However. my tree primary amigas are at the highest priority, they still need some work...
EDIT:
Oh and I almost forgot the CDTV
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I am too scared to try my A1200. It worked fine last Time I tried (about 2years ago) except the power switch broke and I had to bypass it.
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My stuff-
Alive:
1x A4000T
2x A4000D
3x A1200
2x CD32
2x A600
1x A500+
Dead:
4x A4000D :-o
2x A1200
2x A600
1x CD32 (Broken CD-ROM)
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@mike-
there's no death penalty in Spain ;-)
But destroying amigas is sad :_(
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I have 3 working A500's, 2 working A2500's, 1 working A1200, 1 working A1000 and 1 dead A500.
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What's with all this Amiga hoarding? Great greedy guts! :-P
OK, I have an A1200 (in storage), and an A1-XE.
Hans
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[spooky voice]
No one knows
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Lots :idea:
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I used to have many Amigas, but now I´m married...
(Stupid joke for Portuguese/Spanish speakers) :-D
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One amiga 500, it has kickstart 1.3 and a gvp hd8+ and 3.1 on the way.
Two a1200 with ks3.1 cdrom and miniitx psu. These are works in progress. And one has a blizzard030 and 8mb ram. My mom will have one to play her old favourites on.
Two amiga 4000. One desktop, one power tower with mediator. One CS PPC060/180, and one 060/233 on the way. Extras: picasso4, cybervision ppc, prelude, 2065ether, alpha data ide.
I use them with uae to learn C for the amiga.