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Title: I bought a nice A1200 Desktop
Post by: A4000_Mad on March 17, 2009, 03:59:02 PM

Hi Guys,

I'm always interested to read what you find out there. Well it was my turn as to my surprise I saw something advertised just 5 miles from me.....

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Advert wrote:-
COMMODORE AMIGA A1200 hard-drive Workbench 3 plus extras, Blizzard 1230 IV Turbo 16 MB and FPU, 1084S monitor, power-supply, mouse, joystick, CD Rom (not loaded), lots of manuals and software. £50ono

Luckily it was still available and I was able to get it :-)

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/A1200Find.jpg)


Thanks very much Nigel :pint:

Title: Re: Have you found anything nice lately?
Post by: save2600 on March 17, 2009, 04:05:33 PM

WOWEE! £50 for all that stuff??  Looks to be in great condition too. You really made out   :-o

Title: Re: Have you found anything nice lately?
Post by: A4000_Mad on March 19, 2009, 04:31:03 PM

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save2600 wrote:
WOWEE! £50 for all that stuff??

Yep! I rang the seller, Nigel, and asked him to please put my name on it and told him that I wouldn't be making him any offers. I was surprised to see that he had fitted an IDE port beside the mouse port.......

(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/A1200N1.jpg)

and an IDE lead was coming out of the rear of the CDrom drive..........


(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/A1200N2.jpg)

I've just put it all together on top of the cooker (as you do :-D)...............


(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/A1200N3.jpg)

and after putting a few files into its HDD, this A1200 can now see a 1GB Compact Flash card on the PCMCIA slot and also the CDrom drive which has an OS3.9 CD inserted.............


(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/A1200N4.jpg)

That was great work Nigel 8-)

He knew that he could have got more for this A1200, but he just wanted it to go to a good home :-)

Title: Re: Have you found anything nice lately?
Post by: terminator4 on March 19, 2009, 05:52:27 PM

Nice deal.  He was very kind to offer to you for "symbolic" amount, rather than charge you market price.

Title: Re: Have you found anything nice lately?
Post by: InTheSand on March 19, 2009, 06:15:33 PM

Great stuff... As long as you're not intending to cook anything!  :-D

Title: Re: Have you found anything nice lately?
Post by: RMK305 on March 19, 2009, 06:40:03 PM

Bargain. Well done on a good find.

Title: Re: I bought a nice A1200 Desktop
Post by: gklinger on March 20, 2009, 04:08:05 AM

You are in for a world of good times.

Title: Re: I bought a nice A1200 Desktop
Post by: marcfrick2112 on March 20, 2009, 04:52:45 AM

Hey A4000_Mad, as others' have said, great deal you got...
1200's are nice machines, especially when they have a turbocard, you might want to get a 32MB SIMM for it.

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I've just put it all together on top of the cooker (as you do)

Can't do that anymore... my new cooker has Teflon-coated grates, everything just slides off ...  :lol:

Title: Re: I bought a nice A1200 Desktop
Post by: Amiduffer on March 20, 2009, 05:06:11 AM

Not bad! A decent price, lots of extras, and a decent modification. That's really scamming a deal.

Title: Re: I bought a nice A1200 Desktop
Post by: Methuselas on March 20, 2009, 05:37:57 AM

I *HATE* you! :lol:

Title: Re: I bought a nice A1200 Desktop
Post by: yssing on March 20, 2009, 07:58:03 AM

Nice... lucky you... :)

Title: Re: I bought a nice A1200 Desktop
Post by: dcr8520 on March 20, 2009, 04:22:47 PM

wow... thats really a monster cdrom drive!  :-o