i retired my old trusty a500 a few years ago when i got my 1200, the 500 still works great tho its in storage for the time being, the only puter problem ive ever had was i purchased a new c64 and it was bad from the start, had one other c64 stolen, another 64 broken by an idiot now ex-friend, and the 4th and last one i bought still works perfectly to this day, tho ive got such a large cache of old c64/amiga hardware and software, i cant remember which c64 was my old one

but they all work so it doesnt really matter :-o :-o :-o