I won an a4000 csppc auction! :)

[da9000]

Gulp!!! $1230+S/H. I'm sorry guys, that maybe "cheap" by today's ridiculous prices, but it ain't really cheap. So I'm with Tokyoracer and Krusher on this. Especially the fact that many setups go to dust collectors... and never get used. I'd love to get a PPC setup to get back to doing some Amiga programming for OS4, but it's damn near impossible the way these things are selling...

Now, perhaps we're blaming collectors even though there may not be so many out there (was there ever a poll?), but frankly from all the posts I've read on a.org, there seem to be a lot with such kit just sitting doing nothing (and some don't respond to mails either...). Come to think of it, there's *huge* set of auctions on eBay from some Canadian guy. This guy either had a store or was well stashed :-) He's got awesome gear, and there's so much, I doubt it was really used often/daily.

BUT, the scary thing with this A4000 auction ( even though, I do admit, it's a very nice setup and I wish arnljot the best of luck with his new toy :-) ), is: how do you trust your $1230/840euros to a guy with 0 rating!?!?!?!? And no paypal or similar payment service!??!!? THAT scares the crap out of me on deals overseas!

My 2 de-valueating dollar cents.

[da9000]

zyphoid wrote:
Hell I'm still dreaming of getting any form of speed for my amiga...

A1200T Mid-Night 060@50mhz
tv tuner, voodoo banshee, usb subway, mediator
Dual Multi partition 200Gig 2.5/3.5HD
Twin dual-layer lite-on dvd 52x dvd-rw
sx-32pro 030@50mhz my favorite system

 :roll:

I don't think there's hating going on zyphoid, but probably envy.


@arnljot:

What sort of "hacked A4000 motherboard" do you have? Anything interesting you wanna share?

[da9000]

Aha, cool. I was wondering, since I know some Spanish guy has done the 16MB -> 64MB hack... but there are no photos or documentation about this anywhere :-(

[da9000]

TheGoose wrote:
Oh yeah, give me my $1000.00 loaded to tilt 100 Mhz Pentium Pro with doom right now or I'll puke! lol.

Actually an authentic 100Mhz PPro would cost much more than $1000 since they were only released at 150Mhz and above :-P

TheGoose wrote:
Someone said "I don't think there's hating going on zyphoid, but probably envy."

I did.

TheGoose wrote:
Um yeah. I am. {bleep}'s got 2 060s now.

Huh?

[da9000]

Bonami wrote:
the seller just registered with eBay the same day he listed it. I hope you and the seller are both in Netherlands, and that the transation went well.

I didn't look at the guy's registration date even, just the score. I consider anyone with less than 99% a not-good-enough seller (I didn't say bad, but someone you might have a doubt about - unless the guy has a low score, which means even 1 stupid negative kills his score).

Anyways, Arnljot is in Norway, if I recall right, so in the worse case he takes a ferryboat over to Dennmark and then heads down to Holland for some Viking ass kicking :-D That's what I'd do for that much moolah and a PPC card!

[da9000]

dannyp1 wrote:
People are also forgeting how much this hardware cost new.

People are forgetting that was 10 years ago...  :roll:

[da9000]

I'd take the whole box with me in the plane. Just get a big enough bag, and add some padding to it. It shouldn't be oversized. I hope :-)