are we still sharing crazy ebay postings?

[djos]

That's what you get for standing on your head!  :roflmao:

:laughing:

[djos]

Hi All,

Of course in Australia you could buy an Amiga 500, stock standard, apparently brand new in box for $2500. Untested.

Bargain.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Amiga-500-BNIB-RARE-/111765214444?hash=item1a05b9d4ec

Catcha,
Epsilon

Yeah it's insane here - I've seen Amiga 1011 Drives listed for BIN $160!!! :whack:

[djos]

How do you prove it isn't BNIB though. Open it up and check for dust or wear on the floppy heads?

I meant " buy it now"

[djos]

Sorry for this guy having to sell his system due to a medical bill, but dang!  Look at this tower!  It must be about 9' tall, was my first thought.  

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amiga-1200-Tower-128MB-usb-indivision-aga-FastATA-68030-50Mhz-fpu-50Mhz-dvd-/161910747189

I feel sorry for you guy's living in the US not having universal health care, you get totally rogered by big biz interests!!

[djos]

So many assumptions made in one post.

I could be rude back but I wont - I'll put it down to you not knowing that most developed nations don't leave their citizens at the mercy of their medical corporations.

[djos]

Back at ya.

I'll just leave this here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2014/06/16/u-s-healthcare-ranked-dead-last-compared-to-10-other-countries/

The most notable way the U.S. differs from other industrialized countries is the absence of universal health insurance coverage. Other nations ensure the accessibility of care through universal health systems and through better ties between patients and the physician practices that serve as their medical homes.

Unfortunately, many still equate “universal healthcare” with “Government run” or “single payer” healthcare. It isn’t

Don't think I'm some sort of commie, i'm not - I have private health care here in Aus cause I can afford it (every one making more that $50k p/a is encouraged too, otherwise you pay a yearly levy).

Just yesterday I took my 2 year old boy into a private hospital for a minor operation and thanks to our health insurance it cost us Zero dollars.

If we weren't well off the same operation would have been still free, we'd have just gone to a public hospital and had to wait a couple of months instead (it was elective surgery).

[djos]

The biggest problem you guys have in the U.S.A. Is that your gov is no longer representing the people, the corporations have completely corrupted your democracy. See the TPP etc as an example of the gov negotiating for corporations, not people. These are the same corporations who do their absolute best to not pay their fair share of taxes in the U.S.A.

Ps it's happening here in Australia too, our conservative gov is trying to bend us over and Roger is hard atm on all sorts of things!

[djos]

You know, anytime someone from another country starts his or her statement with "the biggest problem you have in the USA" the hair on the back of my neck stands up and I brace myself for an unrealistic assessment handed down by a foreign media or government which does everything it can to show how superior that country is to the US.

But you hit the nail right on the head and drove it deep.  We have a government which rules in absolute opposition to its people, and the members of that government minimize, harass, libel, slander, and pretty much pull every dirty propaganda trick in the book against any of the people who rise in opposition.  Hence all the misinformation against several of the popular citizen movements, the largest, and most maligned, of which is the Tea Party movement.

Anyway, none of this is why we're here at AO. :pint:

Sorry to be correct, I really like America and most Americans I've met and I can see Australia rapidly heading down the same path of Governing for Corporations, not ppl.

[djos]

It's back!

The absolute WORST "tower" version of an Amiga 500!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321964802410

Oh God, that surely deserves a name like "the Franken500" !!!!

[djos]

Okay, is that an '030 under the heat-sink, because this 530 seems to be missing the "30" part.

I never knew these had IDE and SCSI on them.  That's pretty impressive.

yeah it's only got a 68k on it and is indeed missing the 030 from the section on the board designed for it.