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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: fordp on June 19, 2011, 10:12:25 PM
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So I found an Amiga 1200 with an uninstalled 030 accelerator, which I thought was a good deal. As it turned out there were several other Amiga's available, so I picked them up as well. What I assumed I was coming home with was three A1200's, three A500's, and the accelerator. I was very wrong, very surprised, and still a bit in shock. This is what I ended up with:
1 x E-Matrix 1230-50
2 x Amiga 1200HD US w/Phase5 Blizzard 1260 + SCSI kit
1 x Amiga 1200 (with PCI components label) w/Phase5 Blizzard 1260 + SCSI kit
1 x A500 rev5, A501, 1MB Agnus
1 x A500 rev5, A501, 1MB Agnus, w/Viper 520-33-CD
1 x A500 rev5, A501, 1MB Agnus w/Mtec 68020 1/4MB
1 x MV1200 Scandoubler/Flicker Fixer (If I've matched it to BBOAH correction)
1 x ScanMagic Scandoubler
Not to mention a collection of books, manuals, cables, and misc components.
I also have a 'mystery' power supply that google claims is an A1200 power supply, but not like any I've seen. (Of course, I've never owned an A1200 before.) Unlike I'd expect, it is an all black plastic case, marked as made by Commodore, claims to be 25W with p/n 391029-21.
Anyway, I have several weeks of cleaning, and testing ahead of me, and this is more loot than my wife is going to let me keep around the house, so some of it should end up in the market.
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dont suppose you have an a4000 keyboard and a decent amiga mouse?
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i might be interested in one of your blizzards with scsi kit or just scsi kit if wont to keep them
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I'd also be interested in one of the scsi kits too.
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Wow!
I'm interested in hearing more about the deal =)
Was the seller aware of what he actually sold or did you just get lucky on a garage sale or something?
Are you willing to reaveal how much you paid?
Can we have pictures? =)
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It's not fair. How come everyone else finds miggies in the trash but i never do. There are people on here who find A4000's! What am i doing wrong?
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How come everyone else finds miggies in the trash but i never do. What am i doing wrong?
Do you ever look?
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No... :(
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No... :(
LOL, I do a craigslist search for "Amiga" almost every day, and come up with nada. Like hen's teeth in the DC area! :(
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@Tension, afraid no big-box keyboards at all, and the only the one mouse per system.
@digiflip, @nicholas I've noted your interest. I'm not ready to sell them just yet, I want to clean up the systems, figure out how to bundle, and ship, them figure out which ones I should keep, etc.
@Kesa, I've always felt the same way when I've read these posts. All I can say is I got plain lucky. I've tried to pick up a few 040 boards in the past and never found one at a price point I'd been willing to pay.
@damiga. Pictures are forthcoming. Give me a few days.
I prefer not to reveal what I've spent, but lets say that I hunted around prices, and I considered the price fair for 3 stock A1200s, 3 stock A500s, and 1 68030 accellerator with some extra thrown in for the extra unidentified bits.
I originally suspected the guy was a ex-amiga user, given what he had on hand, and the way he responded to inquiries. It wasn't until I picked them up I realized this guy hadn't really ever used an Amiga. I wasn't sure if this was good, or bad.
As it turned out, the guy had books, an original 'Amiga Magic' box, discs, a bunch of adapters, so I wasn't very concerned. As I'm loading up the books, a manual for the Blizzard 1260 fell out. I commented how /that/ would be a great find. He didn't seem to understand, now I knew this guy had no idea. So I asked how he got them. Apparently he got them for _free_ for doing a favor for somebody. I guess this stuff has just been passed around by people who didn't know what they were for awhile.
It's a decent drive home, so I stop for dinner, by the time I get home, and get all this in the house its 8:30PM or so. So I pull first A1200 out of the box, notice the expansion port cover is bowed out, think to myself, "well thats cool, there's something in there." and pop it open. Giant grey ceramic square. "No... way..." I say out loud. The wife asks whats wrong. No answer. I remove the simm covering the chip number, 68060 it says on it. "This thing has an 060 accelerator", I tell the wife, or perhaps the room in general. "That's good isn't it?", she asks. "uh... yeah..."
So I gather my wits after realizing I just got extraordinarily lucky. I pull out A1200 #2. It's in good shape, the expansion port is sitting flush, and why shouldn't it be, I have an 060 in one machine, and an 030 sitting in bubble wrap, what are the odds that this thing has much of anything in it. I pop off the cover. Giant grey ceramic square."No f'in way", I say. The wife had left the room by now. This can't be right I think, so I check the chip number on this one too. 68060 it says. I go find my wife to tell her there is two of them, which is silly, cause she really doesn't care anymore that there are two 68060's than if there were two left handed smoke shifters, but I had to tell someone.
Ok, back to business, there is no way there is anything interesting left in this lot. How could there possible be. Amiga 1200 #3, its a bit yellowed, it probably PAL, not sure (I'm still not sure, I haven't checked, I mean it seems inconsequential at the moment.) The expansion port cover falls off, there is a DB25 on a ribbon cable hanging out of the back. The box isn't in terrible shape, but it has seen better days. I flip it over. Giant grey ceramic square. I put the cover back on. I box up all three machines. It was time to stop tempting fate, and get a drink. The rest of the unboxing would have to wait.
TL;DR. Wife convinced me to risk the money on six Amiga's. First three amiga's were filled with diamonds. Decided best course of action was to drink heavily.
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LOL, I do a craigslist search for "Amiga" almost every day, and come up with nada. Like hen's teeth in the DC area! :(
I too hit Craigslist on a daily basis. Must be to many of us in this (D.C.) area.
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LOL, I do a craigslist search for "Amiga" almost every day, and come up with nada. Like hen's teeth in the DC area! :(
I do exactly the same, craigslist, ebay everyday. Lost countless ebay auctions. (a****a, whoever you are, stop buying everything I want.) My A2000 came from craigslist, I probably payed slightly to much for it. I've found a few A500's, usually ignore them. (With the new three, I now have five 'spare', time to thin them out.) An occasional CD32 has tempted me, but I resisted. probably in four months I've seen 6 craigslist postings. Then I stumbled upon this entirely by mistake when comcast changed my IP, and craigslist bumped into the wrong, but nearby region.
Keep up the hunt.
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LOL, I do a craigslist search for "Amiga" almost every day, and come up with nada. Like hen's teeth in the DC area! :(
you serious? I guess us europeans are in luck. even in our relatively small country there are around ten a1200's for sale on just one advertising site. not exactly what you'd call bargains but still, availability is no issue here.
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Yea, I do am Amiga search on the Raleigh/Durham Craigslist every other day or so and rarely does anything ever show up. I'll get a Commodore 64 or Vic-20 show up here and there. Anytime an Amiga does appear the person wants ebay prices for it.
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LOL, I do a craigslist search for "Amiga" almost every day, and come up with nada. Like hen's teeth in the DC area! :(
I'm in the DC area and struck gold twice. First time, browsing in a pawn shop, I saw an Amiga 2500 box, with no keyboard, mouse or cables. The owner did not know what it was or what to do with it. I traded him 3 obsoleted PC compatible computers which was given away from my office for it. That made more sense to him. Anyway, I brought the box home. Besides the A2630 accelerator, it had the Commodore Scan Doubler card and a 8088 Bridgeboard in it. Should have suspected it when I noticed it had a 5.25" floppy drive built in. The hard drive was small, only 52 MB. But the accelerator had 4 MB of RAM on it.
Second time, I saw an auction on EBay. The guy was selling his A500 kit for 1 cent (buy it now). He basically wanted to make space in his garage. So I bit. When I got there, I was glad I had a van. That A500 was loaded to the gills: GVP A530 (8 MB RAM, 120 MB HD), ScanDoubler, 2 MB Chip RAM, 1.3/2.1 ROM Switcher, boxes of software and parts. The parts included a second GVP A530 brand-new in box, a third GVP A530 parts only, a parts only A500, Commodore 1942 bi-sync monitor, a joystick, extra cables, extra 3.5" external drives, an extra scan-doubler, extra A500 keyboard and I still have not gone through all the boxes.
I did not have too much space myself, so I put an ad in craigslist and got rid of my Mac collection (mostly 680x0's and a couple early PowerPC's). Made some Mac-head real happy. But I was much happier with my expanded Amiga collection.
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I found my A4000D in the wrong section on eBay. The guy was unable to test it because he didn't have a screen for it, so it was only guaranteed to power up. He took the case off and snapped a few pics, and I was able to see that it had a 3640 and a Toaster 4k card :) I got it for much less than what I would want for it.
That being said, I search craigslist daily also. However, I search the entire US, not just local, and have convinced a guy to ship once. I use google, and here's how I do it:
amiga june site:craigslist.org
That will search every craigslist.org for amiga, and show the june results. They aren't the greatest and you have to wade through a bunch of crap but it works to a degree :)
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@Oldsmobile_Mike
@motrucker
@spihunter
You guys are checking the wrong craigslist dudes.
You need to check the NYC craigs list... There is an Amiga posting everyday including mines
I am selling a Blizzard 1240
A Blizzard SCSI
And more
@ Oldsmobile_mike
@motrucker
@spihunter
You guys are just checking the wrong Craigslist !!!!
There is something posted on NYC's craigslist every single day thats Amiga related.
Right now I personally have tons of stuff, including:
Blizzard 1240
Blizzard SCSI kit
Two 128mb ram modules for SCSI kit
Subway USB card
CHROMAKEY plus
CD32 NTSC model
And a bunch of other stuff.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/sys/2437713727.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/sys/2451730570.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/sys/2437844613.html
Call me if interested: 646-719-8581
NO PAYPAL...... postal Money Orders ONLY
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Unfortunately Doommaster works the same Craigslist area I use. He had an A3000 recently that he would have sold you for 1200 bucks or 600 bucks plus a 68060 accelerator for an A2000.
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I have had some luck in Seattle with CL. (just a hair outside of Doomy's territory LOL) I have got a 1200 for $25. A4000 and A2000 for free! And other odds and ends for small change. Got two A500's for free recently too.
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@damiga. Pictures are forthcoming. Give me a few days.
I prefer not to reveal what I've spent, but lets say that I hunted around prices, and I considered the price fair for 3 stock A1200s, 3 stock A500s, and 1 68030 accellerator with some extra thrown in for the extra unidentified bits.
Great, can't wait to see pictures!
I respect that you don't want to reveal the price, but I had to ask =)
I would probably be even more jealous if I found out how good the deal was =)
A nice story anyways. Best of luck with the hardware, hopefully everything works!
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The A500 is like a Fabergé egg which until you crack open you will never appreciate the possible surprise. Whenever a 500 came up on Ebay that nobody bid on I would give it a go and couldn't wait to see if there was anything inside. Sometime ago the community here were having fun with an Ebay auction cus the boxed 500 for sale claimed to be an upgraded 1200. Anyway I said nothing but was suspiscious. I won the auction and when I got it home inside was a Viper like yours. Quite rare.
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz382.htm
Any accelerator for a 500 is rare and should be well looked after. Personally I would try to look after it. The other items are valuable, but not rare. So well done. I tried very much to collect gear cus I would always come back with more.
Like this lot that I got from winning an auction for a Checkmate. Scroll down the list to items listed from 5th June 2004 called my Wonderwall
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz164.htm
The Checkmate
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com/amiga/amiga_scuzz86.htm
Just wish I had the space to collect more.
Anyway .. Well done. Safe hands I hope. Gear like this needs safe hands.
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It's not fair. How come everyone else finds miggies in the trash but i never do. There are people on here who find A4000's! What am i doing wrong?
Kesa, honey, I'm the same I never find shit! I wanna find some good stuff! Awww dammit....I want, I want, I want!!!!!
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Just wish I had the space to collect more.
Anyway .. Well done. Safe hands I hope. Gear like this needs safe hands.
Scuzz, I love your collection, looked through it many times ;)
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Imgur album showing the most interesting bits haul.
http://imgur.com/a/OR7Vl
@scuzzb494 That is a most impressive collection, and the wonderwall especially so.
I hope I'm safe hands, if I can't use anything, I'll endeavour to find homes for them that can. The Viper is one of the more exciting bits to me, as I still have one of (if not my) first A500's, and it would be very happy with an 020, and from the little I've read about the Viper, it seems like one of the 020's you'd most want to have.
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Scuzz, I love your collection, looked through it many times ;)
I love living in an Amiga Aladdin's cave. When I first got my Amiga there was a computer shop here dedicated to the Amiga and the guys in there were Amiga nutters. Every lunchtime I would go in there and they would show me new goodies and it was quite magical. I don't have the joy of seeing new stuff but I have an Amiga wonderland to play in every day and I gotta say it really isas magical. Dunno what modern computer kit would generate as much lasting pleasure.
Good to collect... Just wish I could cram more stuff in. Keep up the good work and always have fun.
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Imgur album showing the most interesting bits haul.
http://imgur.com/a/OR7Vl
@scuzzb494 That is a most impressive collection, and the wonderwall especially so.
I hope I'm safe hands, if I can't use anything, I'll endeavour to find homes for them that can. The Viper is one of the more exciting bits to me, as I still have one of (if not my) first A500's, and it would be very happy with an 020, and from the little I've read about the Viper, it seems like one of the 020's you'd most want to have.
I would suggest the Viper is probably one of the single most important finds you will ever make. I just sat there with this big grin on my face for like ever when I found mine. I still have the boxed 500 in pride of place here. I mean when you just look at the slender build and then marvel how it ever fitted inside the 500. No other computer can boast such dedicated users. And finding any treasure in a 500 is truly wonderful. Trust me when I say, they are rare. Any accelerator for the 500 is rare and I do truly hope that you make sure it finds a glass case at some point. Cus in years to come they will celebrate the unique nature of the Amiga range of computers and collectors will pay a fortune for such things. This was the birth of everything to come in the world of micro technology, and you have such a valuable part of that. Safe hands are needed whilst it stays with you. Well done.