uncleted wrote:
Commodore had an Australian branch for some reason. They died around the same time as the general chapter 11 and shedded a whole lot of stock.
The Amiga was massively expensive in Australia at the time and after the A500 came out, it was not a great seller, so I guess they had quite a bit of inventory.
Dude, are you taking the piss?
C= was HUGE in Australia. From the C-64 right through to the halcyon Amiga days of the late 80s/ early 90s.
A500s were sold everywhere - Myer, Grace Bros, K-Mart (where I got mine), Big W, pretty much every specialty store, you name it. The unit sales must have been huge, and compared to PCs they were remarkably inexpensive. A full A500 setup was available for under $1K, when IBM clones were $3K+.
When C= Aus went bust in 1994, there weren't any A500s at the final sell-off. 1200s, yes. Some 2000s and 3000s used on the premises - yes. 600s - yes. No 4000s from memory (I snapped up one of the last before they expired), and no 1942s - ditto there.
