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One of my Amigas has to go, but which?
« on: August 16, 2004, 11:47:12 PM »
Hi,

I have two A1200 setups, both with 060/50 accelerators, one towered with a Mediator and Voodoo 3. I'm in desperate need of some money and space, and so unfortunately I have to stoop as low as selling one :-(.

Anyway, here's the deal. The tower setup is a pretty serious machine which I've used for ages as my main computer, right up until the hard disk popped and I lost around 10gb of stuff  :-x. This was a year ago, and since then I've been using a PC as I don't have the time or money to refit a new HD and install from scratch. The system has also been robbed of its monitor, floppy and CD Rom, so it's basically pretty useless now.

The other machine is an immaculate desktop wedge from the escom era (it's got the new Amiga logo sticker). I've hardly used it, but it works perfectly.

My question is, which one do I sell?

My power amiga needs have been pretty much satisfied with WinUAE to date, which has so far been about a zillion times faster than my tower. But still, I've spent so much money and time on the tower that even the thought of selling it hurts.
 
My options are:

1) Sell the tower, accelerator, motherboard, and mediator+voodoo seperately, and keep my wedge for the retro programming and games.

2) Do up my tower with the bits from the wedge, then sell the wedge.

3) Sell either the wedge or the tower as a complete system.

Obviously 1) is going to get me the most money and space while still allowing me access to a power amiga (UAE) and a retro amiga. But, I feel like I'm selling my soul!!!

What do I do??!?!  :-x  :-x  :-x  :-x
 

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Re: One of my Amigas has to go, but which?
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2004, 11:57:44 PM »
I've not been without an Amiga since 1990, so I don't want to sever the ties completely.. seems wrong.

I want to keep at least one. Even if I rarely use it, I know that one day I'd regret selling everything Amiga I own, know what I mean?
 

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Re: One of my Amigas has to go, but which?
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2004, 03:50:41 PM »
Thanks for the replies!

It's strange that when I read my original post over again, it seems obvious that my mind was already made up before I wrote it. I guess I was just looking for some kind of reassurance  :-D.

I have some kind of attatchment to the desktop, even though I've rarely used it, and it's not a 'real' old fart machine as it's not got the C= logo  :lol:. The tower is.. well.. its got so many hacks that it's more borg than human :-o.

I've got this strange burning desire to go all retro for a while. I just dug out a whole load of old amiga books, including the original RKMs and some other interesting programming titles. I want to dim the lights, find my Dpaint 4 and Elite discs, and listen to that floppy drive thrash!

For some reason, the more 'phat' my tower got, the more I lost touch with the original Amiga stuff. I got more into web browsing, irc and generally getting far too distracted by the pretty colours and lovely speed to actually *do* anything with it. Am I insane?

Anyway, I'm rearranging the stuff tonight. I'll build myself a mean wedge, dig out the 'ol TV,  and sell the rest. I'll post on the Amiga on Ebay forum as soon as I get a list together!

Out of interest, how much would an Apollo 060/50 with 32Mb 60ns RAM go for? I also have a Blizzard 1260, but I'd rather keep that one 8-).

I'm in the UK so I'd rather not ship too far abroad, but then the item is quite small, so I'd consider it.

Cheers,

David