A500 hard disk addon rarity

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I just dug out my old A500+ out of a cupboard, as I'm moving residence, and thought about doing something with it. I haven't used it for at least 5 years, but it's not a bad little computer in many ways.
A hard disk of some description seems most useful, but it seems you can't get hold of any of the old GVP expansions. ICD make a similar thing, but it's expensive.
I'm thinking I might as well get hold of an A1200 with a hard drive for the kind of money involved...

I'm a UK resident by the way...

and hello too

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I did in fact see a couple on ebay just now. It's just painful using a single floppy drive - I don't know how I put up with it before, but I did. The only thing that seems slow on it is the loading time.

If I got an A1200, I'd be more interested in having a compact machine. I've got a big box with a PC in it already. You can fit an accelerator card in there without rebuilding around the motherboard.

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In case anyone's interested, I did in fact manage to buy and IDE controller with a 500Mb drive installed, which should be perfectly adequate.

I think I'll stay away from the A1200 money pit for now  ;-)