Where to buy an amiga?

[amigasociety]

Some guy recently paid through the nose for a "new old stock" A4000T from SoftHut. He was so excited he filmed himself taking it out of the box and put the video up on youtube. Turned out it was dead on arrival.

That was me.  Appears possible CPU board is bad.  Soft Hut is sending me a replacement.  Hope to know soon if that takes care of issue.

BTW, these A4000T they sell have a 6 month warranty, so, even though old new stock, we have protection with a decent warranty.  

I hope to have a running A4000T soon.  I am excited to start using it.  Even brand new systems have a DOA once in a while and shit happens.  These have been sitting for a very long time I am sure but Joe at Soft Hut is a decent guy and a good seller it appears and should be taking care of the issue as we speak.

So, am I still excited.  You bet I am.  

Direct link to my video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bNZWnh2F6Q

tj

[amigasociety]

Here is the link and the story of the new A4000T

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30731&forum=25

@amigasociety
It is really a gorgeous machine! I hope you get it working in the end!

I am sure it will.  Stuff happens.  Just seems to happen to me lately. .  A couple other people I have met on these various Amiga forums also purchased the same systems and they did not have issues so I am sure it is just one of those things.  Bad things come in 3s so this was my 3rd so only good JuJu from now on. hehehehe

tj

[amigasociety]

Amigasociety,

Great video. You remaind surprisingly calm, I think I would have been in tears with joy.


I wonder how many magic packs AmigaKit have in stock and if any of them have suffered from leaky caps?

I guess maybe if I was an Amigan from the 80s I may have but coming to this late in life, I guess the emotions to that level are not there.  But... I know a good thing when I see it and could not pass up owning a A4000T do did the deed.

tj

[amigasociety]

I post more over on Amigaworld.net.  I am this buyer.  I received the replacement CPU board but made ZERO difference.  Same green and yellow screens.  So, I message Joe of Soft Hut last night and he responded this AM and said he would check with his tech.

So, that is where it stands right now.

Disappointment it will not boot but keeping my head up about it.

TJ

Hi,

Anybody know how this turned out, SoftHut is usually excellent at making good any purchase that you made from them. I have purchased from them since the Amiga first came out and they were always an excellent dealer to deal with. The Amiga product especially towers and desktops with add on accelerators are well know for not functioning properly after being shipped, when I was a Commodore salesman I checked every Amiga I sold in front of the customer so he knew it worked before taking it home. I also showed and briefed him on what to do if it didn't work when he got it home.

I sold C64, C128, PC-10, PC-20, Amiga 1000's, Amiga 500's, and Amiga 2000's in San Francisco in the late 80's to the early 90's, and yes Apple's were the least sold, PC's were the most sold, except for the Amiga 500's were I received awards for selling the most computers (Amiga 500's of course) for three years in a row (1989-1992), the years I didn't win was because Commodore couldn't make shipments.

1st place -- Amiga 500
2nd place -- PC's
3rd place -- Apple II, and Mac's

smerf

[amigasociety]

First few weeks of using an amiga are HARD. Hope he doesn't get scared into dumping it on ebay.

So far I am having a good time.  Just been Soooo long since I did any command line stuff since I am a Mac head.  So, even figuring out I had to type lha_68040 e blahblahblah.lha to unstuff the files.  I sure am making a mess on one one 4GB partition though.  I need to read more and figure out better what command I can use for lha_68040 to make the files all unstuff in their own folder someplace.  If someone wants to give me that tip so I don't have to track it down.  :lol:

So far so good.  Just al foreign to me never owning an Amiga.  Not like they have a real good Amiga For Dummies book although one would think after all these years since 1985 someone would have made a real good one.    So far I have it booting OS 3.1 and have installed the hard drive and CD rom.  Boots from hard drive but I am still working on getting CD to work.  I did install the Cyberstorm today and nice having 82MB RAM.  Never thought I would say that.  82MB RAM.  Seems so small yet so big in world of old 1994 systems.

No plans today to dump it although after I play some with the Cyberstorm I installed today, come summer if that X1000 is out and I want to get it, I may part with my Cyberstorm/Cybervision combo to help pay for my addiction or maybe do a partial trade for cash + 68060 cpu board for my Cyberstorm setup.  We will see.

For now, I am having fun.  Confused, dazed, happy, and content.  What more can I ask for?

tj