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Treasure in the DC area
« on: June 20, 2011, 08:12:07 PM »
Quote from: Oldsmobile_Mike;646356
LOL, I do a craigslist search for "Amiga" almost every day, and come up with nada.  Like hen's teeth in the DC area!  :(

I'm in the DC area and struck gold twice.  First time, browsing in a pawn shop, I saw an Amiga 2500 box, with no keyboard, mouse or cables.  The owner did not know what it was or what to do with it.  I traded him 3 obsoleted PC compatible computers which was given away from my office for it.  That made more sense to him.  Anyway, I brought the box home.  Besides the A2630 accelerator, it had the Commodore Scan Doubler card and a 8088 Bridgeboard in it.  Should have suspected it when I noticed it had a 5.25" floppy drive built in.  The hard drive was small, only 52 MB.  But the accelerator had 4 MB of RAM on it.

Second time, I saw an auction on EBay.  The guy was selling his A500 kit for 1 cent (buy it now).  He basically wanted to make space in his garage.  So I bit.  When I got there, I was glad I had a van.  That A500 was loaded to the gills: GVP A530 (8 MB RAM, 120 MB HD), ScanDoubler, 2 MB Chip RAM, 1.3/2.1 ROM Switcher, boxes of software and parts.  The parts included a second GVP A530 brand-new in box, a third GVP A530 parts only, a parts only A500, Commodore 1942 bi-sync monitor, a joystick, extra cables, extra 3.5" external drives, an extra scan-doubler, extra A500 keyboard and I still have not gone through all the boxes.

I did not have too much space myself, so I put an ad in craigslist and got rid of my Mac collection (mostly 680x0's and a couple early PowerPC's).  Made some Mac-head real happy.  But I was much happier with my expanded Amiga collection.
A1000 - 2 Floppies, 2 MB RAM, OS 1.0-1.3
A500 - 170 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, OS 1.3/2.04
A2000 - 350 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, A2630, OS 2.04
A2500 - 540 MB HD, 8 MB RAM, A2630, OS 3.9
A1200 - 20 GB HD, 64 MB RAM, Blizzard IV
Amithlon - 49 GB HD, 768 MB RAM, PIII-1G
AROS - 80 GB HD, 2 GB RAM, P4-3.2GHz