The reason you don't see any installed in an A3000 on eBay is because the 1.76mb Floppy is such a highly sought item on its own it is always removed and kept, or sold separately. I have seen them go for insane prices on eBay (for more money than an A500 or A1000 that is complete sometimes). Specially the ones with the A3000 style button.
Yeah I realize that but AFAIK the A3000 did not come standard with a 1.76MB Floppy drive. (Not all came with it like the A4000) It was an extra dealer add on or upgrade from C=. Is that not correct? I think what this thread is about, is which Amiga was the best from C=. Not which Amiga, once upgraded and hacked, is the best. They can all be frankensteined to be great machines, but that is not the point. I really do like the A3000 series. I have a A3000D and A3000T. Both are great. But from my observations here are the major weak points:
1. Memory--hard to find and replace Zip RAM. What a PITA.
2. Kickstart--hard to upgrade, the hardest of any Amiga. (Other than the 1000) (ROM tower, wrong silk screening on MB, Regular vs ROM tower ROMs, etc)
3. Buggy chipset. (Buster 7, DMAC, Ramsey, etc)
4. Crammed case (Heat issues, lack of space, some zorro cards did not fit right and needed to be hacked)
5. Flakey Chinnon floppy drives (seems all the micro switches go bad, hard to replace mech)
6. Lack of room for most CPU cards, the drive bay had to be hacked
7. No IDE (yes that's right LOL)
Other than that it is a great machine!! :lol:
