I can't remember the exact year, but it must have been close to 1989 or 1990 when I was walking through a Montgomery Ward's store (remember them, they once competed head to head with Sears) when I came across an A500 in a slightly beat up box that had never been opened, just scuffed up from being moved from one shelf to another. I asked the person working in that department if he could get his manager so I could make an offer on it as the price was unclear and it was not showing up in the store computer inventory list. I think I got it for about $50 and asked them if they had any other related hardware or software for it hiding anywhere. The salesman tried to talk me out of buying it because he did not think I knew what it was (in his mind a doorstop). I don't think the Amiga got into hardly any mainstream retail outlets until it was too late. I usually had to drive 100 miles to find an computer store that carried anything for the Amiga and even less that carried Amiga computers themselves. And this was years before the bankruptcy. Commodore has no one but themselves for their failure and the failure of the Amiga to be sold in numbers 5 to 10 times higher than actual sales. :boohoo:
