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what's my 4000T worth?
« on: March 10, 2008, 12:44:36 PM »
getting ready to list my 4000T on ebay and wanted to get some feedback on it's value.

I bought it new and it's been my main Amiga since 1996.  

(4000T's are rare to begin with and I've seen some with lots of boards go for nearly the same as ones that are near stock.)

As for mine...description includes:

- Quikpak 4000T
- Quikpak 50 Mhz '060 processor card with 128 mb of EDO ram
- 16 Mb of ram on MB (2 - 8Mb simms on mother board)
- motherboard battery has been removed and replaced with external battery holder
- 1-DD internal floppy has been replaced with 1-HD internal floppy
- Hard drive is 1 Gig Quantum with clean 3.1 install on it.
- I have a nice SCSI Teac CD burner/reader in it but haven't decided if I'm going to leave that in or use it in another machine.

***Machine is in perfect shape with the exception that the capacitors have degraded and leaked on the sound daughter board so there's no system sound.  Commodore used lower quality capacitors on this board and this is a known problem.  It doesn't effect the machine otherwise.

You may still be able to find a replacement daughter board but it may eventually suffer the same fate.  Another fix would be a better quality sound card with AHI.

I've decided to let this go because I have other Amigas and it's more machine then I need at the moment.

just wondering what others have seen a machine in this near base config go for.

thanks.

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Re: what's my 4000T worth?
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2008, 12:53:33 PM »
I have a Toaster 4000 + DPS component input board but am uncertain about the state of the floppies I have for it.

I had planned on putting those up together but separate from the 4000T.

..not everyone is looking for Toaster stuff so my thought was it would do better alone.

sound right?

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Re: what's my 4000T worth?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2008, 02:11:33 AM »
I've been piecing out my Amiga stuff for some time but am starting to have trouble testing things.

I've got two 4000Ds in disrepair, 1 semifunctional vanilla 2000 that I plan to move some boards into just for nostalgia's sake but I can't say I've really used the 4060T to it's potential for almost 2 years.  I do most of my Amiga stuff under emulation now and if someone else got some use out of the big box that's probably the best use for it.

I can't see these circumstances changing much for me...I mean I can still do the Amiga stuff I want with what I have.

I've been putting the 4000T back to near stock config and have been working on wiping my data and reinstalling 3.1 only to find my install floppies aren't cooperating.  Before I get too far as far as offering this up I need to work out how to get the clean install on the drive.

I've got a shelf full of floppies here and figure 70% of them may have errors at this point...oh well.

...working on getting cd driver working now to try to get things straight before I wipe the working OS...argh!  the joys of floppydom.

machine is fine, weak link is magnetic media that's 12 years old....
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