Upgrading Classic Equipment

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Amiga hardware isn't cheap. Especially PPC hardware as it's in quite big demand. A not too earthshattering BPPC goes for ~400EUR on EBay

Huh?! :-o I sold my BPPC (175MHz, no SCSI, 128MB) for 120e. BVision
went for 80e and tower went for 40e. Selling A1200T was very difficult
but luckily I got two customers and I could ask more money :-D

(Those were not sold in eBay.)

Oh and should you get a BlizzPPC: GET ONE WITH ONBOARD SCSI. Don't bother with the non-scsi species, the slow-as-frozen-crap onboard IDE of an A1200 ain't worth the money you'll save.

I'm not so sure. I was using A1200T/BPPC/BVision with on-board IDE for
years and 2MB/s transferrate is bearable if you install SFS (FFS is
slow without caches). Not to mention you can use your IDE HD on A1
later on if you upgrade.

IMO you can get usable OS4 system for 300e. A1200T, BPPC and BVision,
small 4GB IDE HD.

But of course new system is always better.

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Also CDROM is needed but old 1x-8x drive is currently more than
enough...

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Ah yes, to the person that said 300e (I cant remember your name right now), could you please give me details on what this exactly entailed.

A1200 in a tower, BlizzardPPC, BVision, IDE HD+CDROM, Win95 keyboard,
mouse, 128MB RAM. That is the basic system which should be ok for OS4.
Forget IDE boosters, Mediators and other things like that.

BPPC and BVision are getting somewhat rare collectors items today but
cheap standalone A1200Ts are floating everywhere... IDE HD & CDROM
can be reused in A1 later on if you decide to upgrade (or in Peg...
:-D)

If you can find BPPC+BVision+some RAM for reasonable price (max 200e)
then A1200 system makes sense. Really don't spend more than 300e for
classic Amiga.