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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: ElPolloDiabl on February 25, 2010, 02:08:52 PM
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Hi I was doing some housekeeping and came up with some receipts.
From 1996: (in Australian Dollars)
3.1 ROM $155 A500/A2000
330MB SCSI 2 HDD $179
High Density Amiga FDD $195
In 2010:
I could get AROS free, a 32GB SSD, 19 PC FDDs with some change.
Have you got your old prices? Lets see them.
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In 1987, $650 (US Dollars) for a 20 MB Xetec hard drive for my C128. I no longer own either, I now regret.
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£120 for a Squirrel + SCSI CD-ROM drive & enclosure in 1995 from HiSoft.
Actually seems reasonable :)
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899 Deutsche Mark for an A1200 Magic Pack :D
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I remember paying $499 for a 2 meg expansion that fitted on the side of the Amiga 500. I found it useful for Eric Schwartz animations and to use as a ram disk, since I didn't have a hard drive back then. External Floppy drives were around $200 and I am pretty sure my Amiga 500 Starter Pack that included Kindwords (word processor), F18 Interceptor and one other package (perhaps Deluxe Paint?) was all up around $1,000. My 1230 accelerator card for my 1200 was around $500 and $200 for 2 megabytes of memory due to the earth quake in Japan at the time, all so I could play Frontier the way it was meant to be played.
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When would've be the best time to buy hardware?
I suppose many people would have ditched their Amigas around 1995 or so. Did prices go down then? I just played games back then :)
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Here in the Midwest, used A1000's could be had for dirt cheap in the late 80's. Usually bare bones systems, but once in a while - you'd get a complete system + a DKB Insider for $100 or less. I know I was paying $50-$75 on average. Brick and mortar as well as catalogue retailers were still selling refurb'd A1000's for about $350 but it came with a "full" 512kb RAM. Early 90's were good times to get people's A500's for the price of an SNES and A2000's too could be had between $300-$500. By the late 90's, the Amigans that didn't ditch the platform and that had nicer systems, were scooping up 060 boards and video cards for reasonable. By the early to mid 2000's, said Amiga elitists were starting to get rid of their stuff and that's when we saw the lowest prices on the best hardware. By the late 2000's is when I started seeing a huge rise in demand and thus, higher prices again (as if it was the mid to late 90's), only this time, you didn't have retailers selling the stuff as it was mostly second/third/fourth hand and people were still trying to strike it "rich" off of eBay.
Now, here we are - in a crippled economy where demand has slightly curtailed, but is still kinda high, the dollar is weaker - but Amiga stuff still fetches a relatively decent buck compared to any other classic computing platform that I'm aware of.
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Eric Schwartz
Do not try to find any of his recent works. seriously, he's a pervert. Don't ask why, the answer can't be given on this message board, or even in the english language, without it being obcene. All I will say is that finding out about his "intrests" will ruin his work for you, and pretty much any cartoons ever.
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but Amiga stuff still fetches a relatively decent buck compared to any other classic computing platform that I'm aware of.
maybe apple one, three, or lisa.
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But back to prices and receipts... Sadly, I no longer have my original receipts to most of my purchases, but I can still remember some of the prices I paid and a close approximation to when I paid them:
$400 for a used 256kb A1000 system Dec '87 (from a retailer).
$110 - for a 1050 256kb RAM expansion for said system - Jan '88 (the Amiga is just about worthless with just 256kb - lol)
$190 - for an A1010 disk drive early '88.
$800 - for an A500 and 1084s(philips) by mid '88 (sold my A1000 for $400 w/ ram expansion to a buddy).
$119 - for an A501 512kb RAM expansion around mid '88.
$80 - for a parallel port sound digitizer for my A500 late '88.
$399 - for a stock A1200 w/o HD and System 3.0, early/mid '93.
$300ish? - for a 4mb Fast RAM board w/ clock and 68881, late '93.
$800 - for a 400mb, external 3.5" Dataflyer HD kit for said A1200 (what a pile of shite routing a ribbon cable out the backside) by mid '94.
$350 - for an NTSC CD32 from Software Hut by early-mid '95. Came with Pinball Fantasies and Sleepwalker.
$600 - for a Complete A4000 system with Sunrize AD 516 soundcard, Cyberstorm 060 w/ SCSI, Cybergrafx CV64/3D w/ FF/SD. That was purchased in the mid 2000's. FF/SD card went out and I decided to part out the rest of the system. Nice looking unit that I believe ended up in New Zealand if I remember correctly.
....and $$$'s if not $$$$'s in software throughout the years.
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Apollo 1240@33 mhz, duly overclocked to 40 mhz for $499 Aus. I thought it was a steal at the time.
CV64 $999 Aus
Cyberstorm Mark 2 '060 $2499 Aus.
A4000 '040, $2290 Aus.
32 meg SIMM $499 Aus
The last four are frightening. I'd just finished my first year of employment, and was still driving my dad's car to work. I could have bought a decent car for that money. I dared not show the receipts to my folks.
Sadly the A4000 mobo is now dead but hopefully might be restored to life.
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Do not try to find any of his recent works. seriously, he's a pervert. Don't ask why, the answer can't be given on this message board, or even in the english language, without it being obcene. All I will say is that finding out about his "intrests" will ruin his work for you, and pretty much any cartoons ever.
LOL I didnt know that!
Now i know. :-0
I will never look at that AROS cat mascot the same way :(
You are right @Hell Labs!
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got my cd32 for 32 pounds in 1995
and my a1200 for 75 pounds 1996
also got a a500 for 5 pounds 1997
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Got my Blizzard1230IV for 150 euro new, back in 1997.
Sold it in 99 to a friend for 100 euro.
Bought it back in 00 for 50 euro.
Sold it again for 100 euro.
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LOL I didnt know that!
Now i know. :-0
I will never look at that AROS cat mascot the same way :(
You are right @Hell Labs!
It's an odd thing about humans, make a big red button, in a glass box saying "do not touch, end of the world machine", and some bugger will press it before you leave the room. "I just wanted to see what it does!" is never a good excuse.
"TDK" indeed. At this point he might as well just admit it's him, then seek therapy. Metadata proves it and everything.
Back on topic, 300gb hard disk, about £200. 2004ish.
500gb hard disk, £60 dead. 2009.
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LOL I didnt know that!
Now i know. :-0
I will never look at that AROS cat mascot the same way :(
You are right @Hell Labs!
Thought there was something animal looking about his beard, too furry
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Do not try to find any of his recent works. seriously, he's a pervert. Don't ask why, the answer can't be given on this message board, or even in the english language, without it being obcene. All I will say is that finding out about his "intrests" will ruin his work for you, and pretty much any cartoons ever.
What's wrong with Sabrina? I go there monthly and find it very amusing, especially the "transformer" stuff, but no Amiga strips in a few years.Sabrina is mostly harmless fun.
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What's wrong with Sabrina? I go there monthly and find it very amusing, especially the "transformer" stuff, but no Amiga strips in a few years.Sabrina is mostly harmless fun.
Looks like someone is out of the loop. Perhaps it is best you stay ignorant of the situation.
It would also be best if we stop talking about it now, okay?
I got 2gb of 800ish mhz ddr2 early 2009 for about £30. now the price has doubled. Wheee, gonna be stuck at 2.5gb for a while then!
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Looks like someone is out of the loop. Perhaps it is best you stay ignorant of the situation.
It would also be best if we stop talking about it now, okay?
I got 2gb of 800ish mhz ddr2 early 2009 for about £30. now the price has doubled. Wheee, gonna be stuck at 2.5gb for a while then!
Oh, I know about the "other" stuff, but Sabrina is Ok, maybe PG-13 at the most.
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pfft
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Hi I was doing some housekeeping and came up with some receipts.
From 1996: (in Australian Dollars)
3.1 ROM $155 A500/A2000
That's friggen expensive!
Wonder if they were making a profit on these or that was what it was costing them to make?
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Out of interest, was there ever a good time to buy 1260's cheap?
The problem now is there are only a few that keep doing rounds and so the price's are through the roof.
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Do not try to find any of his recent works. seriously, he's a pervert. Don't ask why, the answer can't be given on this message board, or even in the english language, without it being obcene. All I will say is that finding out about his "intrests" will ruin his work for you, and pretty much any cartoons ever.
Sabrina Online is still a "suitable for work" page. Nothing that you or or your parents & grandparents didn't did.
Of course, the same is not applied to After Dark URL, which is p0rn.
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Stop naming things. Actually, just stop talking about it. I wasn't referring to sabrina online, anyway.
Back to prices.
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Oh I wish that I would have a scanner right now, I'm reading the amiga and atari ads from MikroBitti (Finnish computer magazine, -88) and the prices are just outrageous :lol: 512kb ram expansion with battery costs almost the same as A500 :).
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Now the prices from -90 :
Plain A2000 - 9995 finnish marks, about 1666 euros.
Amiga 2620 Turbo board with 2 meg ram - 19500 finnish marks, 3250 euros.
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To the best of my memory (AFAIR)
Prices I paid for new Commodore and Amiga computers (mixture of GBP (sterling) and US$)
Commodore Pet 4032 1981 -GBP650
Commodore 64 1984- GBP 300
Comm0dore 128 - 1985 GBP350
Amiga 2000HD -1988 US$2500 (with monitor and XT Bridgeboard)
Amiga 3000 -1991 US$3500 (with monitor)
Amiga 4000 -1992 US$4000 ?
Amiga 4000 -1993 GBP2500 ?
Micro A1-C - 2005 - GBP 450/500 ?
Pegasos II 2006 - GBP650
SAM440EP 2008 - GBP550
SAM 440FLEX 2009 - GBP750
TrevorD
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I just found the receipts for my original A1200, bought new in Feb. 1993.
The computer was $628.xx with tax, then the MBX 1200 w/4Mb RAM was $364.xx - and the Hard drive was another $302.75.
Obviously I really wanted that computer!
This was about the 10th machine that this shop received in '93 - and there was a crush trying to get one (in this area, anyway).
I just sold that machine less than a year ago - it's still working fine, as far as I know (although it had been upgraded over the years)
I also found a receipt for a GVP A500 II Hard drive/RAM unit with a 120Mb Quantum, and 4Mb of RAM cost 721.38 w/tax (another local store - Buried Treasure in Rockville Maryland - an Amiga Super Store in its day.
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Im trying to remember when I bought my 1200, but propably 92 or 93.
It was 3000 kroner (about 500 US dollars) for the 1200 unexpanded. The bundle included deluxe paint 4, wordworth and two games (Oscar and Dennis)
My current computer was about 600 dollars from Fry's, and is 4 gig's of RAM. I don't honestly recall the video card and processor other than the latter being some dual core.
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Stop naming things. Actually, just stop talking about it.
As long as I can continue to use my avatar... :roflmao: