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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: paul1981 on September 30, 2014, 08:58:29 PM
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Just spotted these on ebay, less than a day to run on both auctions:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2M1gxNjAw/z/GjwAAOSwVFlUItKi/$_57.JPG)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commodore-Amiga-A600-HD40-/301326486958?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4628754dae
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2M1gxNjAw/z/f~wAAOSwq7JUItGG/$_57.JPG)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commondore-Amiga-1200-HD-/301326481541?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4628753885
They look genuine stickers to me... Interesting eh? Looks to be a real piece of Amiga Microprose computing history up for grabs.
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Neat! I love people who say "I cannot confirm if the HD is okay - unsure how to test". Not rocket science people, lol. :(
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I wonder if there's any source code on the hard drives...
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There's currently 15 bids on the A1200. I think someone from here needs to get it and find out if there is any source code on them!
slaapliedje
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I wonder if there's any source code on the hard drives...
Don't know but if the drives were blank the first thing I'd do is fire up some recovery tools.
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I love the fact that some bored programmer coloured in the AMIGA logo on the A1200... I bet that gets up to 100 quid or so by the end.
What was the A600 Overdrive unit? Edit: Ah, just an external HD caddy.
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Just spotted these on ebay, less than a day to run on both auctions:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2M1gxNjAw/z/GjwAAOSwVFlUItKi/$_57.JPG)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commodore-Amiga-A600-HD40-/301326486958?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4628754dae
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2M1gxNjAw/z/f~wAAOSwq7JUItGG/$_57.JPG)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commondore-Amiga-1200-HD-/301326481541?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4628753885
They look genuine stickers to me... Interesting eh? Looks to be a real piece of Amiga Microprose computing history up for grabs.
if he play game i world say hard drive working or just turn on computer see if it boots up not hard to work out
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I thought the Overdrive just plugged into the PCMCIA slot. The seller says he can't see how it would attach, so is something missing?
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Dark picture but seems to have the plug part there, just to plug in.
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Dark picture but seems to have the plug part there, just to plug in.
Ah, I see it! I was expecting a white connector, not a black one. :)
It doesn't fill me with confidence that the seller can place the Overdrive right next to the PCMCIA port and cannot work out that you connect them by just sliding the two together. I guess there is no guarantee that there is a physical hard drive in the Overdrive enclose or inside the A1200.
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I thought the Overdrive just plugged into the PCMCIA slot.
Yup - I still have what's left of mine, which was the first hard drive I owned and cost about £1 per megabyte.
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I guess there is no guarantee that there is a physical hard drive in the Overdrive enclose or inside the A1200.
Nope. I still have the enclosure but the hard drive itself was removed long ago and put into my A1200T. Still worked the last time I checked (albeit that was about a year ago).
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Yup - I still have what's left of mine, which was the first hard drive I owned and cost about £1 per megabyte.
I had a friend with one. Cost-wise, wasn't it was cheaper than adding an internal 2.5" drive because it used standard 3.5" drives (which were also faster)? So bang-for-buck, if you were looking at 120MB or above then this thing would save you a few quid.
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Crazy prices!
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Winning bids:
£100 for the A600.
£230 for the A1200.
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$156 for the A600.
$359 for the A1200.
Honestly that doesn't sound bad at all for loaded systems with lots of accessories (am sure that A1200's got an accelerator in it, at least), even untested. Those systems are a lot more rare on this side of the pond, and that's not even factoring in the obvious historic value of them.
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Cost-wise, wasn't it was cheaper than adding an internal 2.5" drive because it used standard 3.5" drives (which were also faster)? So bang-for-buck, if you were looking at 120MB or above then this thing would save you a few quid.
Yes, it gave better value for "bigger capacity" (aherm) drives.
I wanted 540MB, which (iirc) was the biggest Overdrive available at the time and set me back about 50% more than my A1200 Desktop Dynamite pack had.
I actually only ever used about 300MB of it (mostly 8-bit audio samples) as I was still recording and mixing down to 4-track tape in those days, so I probably could have got away with a smaller internal drive but two things stopped me:
1. My A1200 was still under warranty and I was terrified of opening the case (hilariously absurd in hindsight).
2. I took on board the AF / CU mantra of the time: get the largest drive you can afford.
It was still a great purchase though. Swapping floppies every ten minutes (even with my extra FDD) became a thing of the past and I really did fall into the clichéd "how did I ever manage before this?" frame of mind.