A3000 - what's it worth?

[Fixer]

Mate, if it's in working condition and okay cosmetically then an Amiga 3000 is worth more than £30.

I've been looking for one of these myself actually.

Edit: Also, I think eBay is your best bet for these big-box machines (especially in the UK). Amigas can really push for high prices on eBay auctions these days. Just start it of at 50/60/70 quid, show pictures of everything clean/working and that the battery is fine.

Oh and post a link to the auction here. I think you'll get a good price for it. I might bid on it myself!

[Fixer]

alexh wrote:
A bare A3000 with 2Meg RAM and hard drive will usually sell for about £60-80 + p&p

It really depends if it has fast RAM, any other hardware, accelerator etc.

Oh yeah he's correct; I've heard fast ram is rare and hard to find for the A3000.

Has it got any?

[Fixer]

tonyyeb wrote:

Fixer wrote:

Oh yeah he's correct; I've heard fast ram is rare and hard to find for the A3000.

Has it got any?

How would i check that? It can boot to Workbench - does it say it in the title bar? Its been a while... forgive me  :-(

Yeah it's not hard to spot. As soon as workbench is loaded you should see (at the top) how much chip ram you have and something called "Other Memory". That other memory is fast ram. :-)

[Fixer]

alexh wrote:
2010 : Amiga owners get married, computer junk no longer acceptable in the house, prices start to go down as the supply of Amiga's on Ebay outstrips demand.

2012 : Most Amiga owners now feeling the pinch of having 3 kids and a mortgage as interest rates spiral. Everything computer like not essential must be sold to pay the mortgage and university fee's! Prices of Amiga's hit rock bottom.

Lol! Brilliant foresight.

[Fixer]

tonyyeb wrote:
Just booted her up and it says:

927560 Graphics mem (i guess these are in bytes)
248048 Other mem

So 1mb RAM and 256k Fast RAM?

Hmmm..

I'm inclined to say it's stock but didn't the A3000 come with 1mb DIP in the chip and another 1mb DIP in the fast?

[Fixer]

There's no native IDE on the A3000.

But tbh that's part of its charm to me. :-D

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Edit: Also aren't the 16mhz versions rare - almost negates the fact that it's slower.

You can always find one of those A3630s on eBay for cheap surely? So I'd say that doesn't really matter.