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[Darth_X]

Site is back up!

I'm happy to see you are back! I bought an A3000D from you a while back. I still have it here on my desk, I just need to find more time to turn it on and use it.

[Darth_X]

That's a very interesting site! I've been reading your blogs about building or restoring A2000s as well as the other models. Unfortunately, almost all of your stock is NTSC, but I'm in the UK.  

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Years ago I really wanted an A2000 because of its expansion slots, but I'm worried now that I may just be playing with old Amigas in the same way my Dad played with old bangers (i.e. used, broken down cars). I doubt I would ever be able to sit in a room with an A2000 with someone else who also had an A2000 there.

Have you considered buying PAL Amiga stuff locally from ebay.co.uk or even the German EBAY site ebay.de ? There's lots of PAL Amiga 2000s on there. There's no sense in someone from the PAL area of the world, UK and Europe, buying equipment designed for use in NTSC areas like Canada/USA. It would cost you twice as much to ship the item to the UK from here, or more.

[Darth_X]

Another daily update blog is up:
http://amigalounge.com/b326.html
and I have dropped the price slightly on the A4000 NOS NTSC Desktop because the book and software were not in the box
http://amigalounge.com/p55.html
I now have a "add to cart button of overseas buyers (bottom LEFT side of page)

I've always been a fan of your blogs. Its interesting to read the behind story of the Amiga item that you've worked on.

[Darth_X]

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/208904-atari-st-floppy-drive-repaired/
(I know its Atari, but Amiga drives get mentioned here and are similar)

Might want to look into how to repair Amiga floppy drives by replacing caps.

[Darth_X]

Cheaper to by new drives from Amigakit when all is said and done, but thanks for the suggestion.

Indeed. Certainly makes sense to put working drives in right away for these NOS Amigas you are selling.

But I also like the idea of being able to repair floppy drives, including the rare 1.76MB HD Amiga floppy drives.

[Darth_X]

I think you are mixing up the A4000 Towers (but I could be wrong) from what the BboAh says, is that the Commodore tower had the Floppy Drive:   1 x Internal 1.76MB Floppy Drive.
The AT tower just used:
1 x Internal 880K (Actually a PC 1.44MB drive converted for Amiga use)

In this case, it is a Sony drive, which were notorious in that era for just dying from lack of use. We went though tons of them at my old computer shop, but they were dirt cheap also- I think back in '99 we were paying like $5 each if we ordered them by the case.
AmigaKit is probably doing the exact same modifications at AT was doing to their drives, so they are probably the closest thing to the originals as you will find.

More of an assumption than a mix up, the A3000T 040 came with a 1.76MB floppy drive, I just assumed the A4000Ts would also. But C= only made a small number of A4000Ts, so I guess the other companies that made A4000Ts (Amiga Technologies, Quickpak) only used 880k drives?

Shame about the Sony floppy drives. You would think Sony would make a higher quality product, but even back then they didn't! :-(

[Darth_X]

I no longer go to Amibay anymore. I have not gone there in months and refuse to go there anymore. I won't go into details, I don't want to sit here and bad mouth Amibay on a public forum. If you wish to email me at the website, I can tell you what happened.
It's just a loss to Amibay's members, but IF i ever decide to go back, it will just be to delete my membership there.
UPDATE:
I just tried to totally delete my membership there, but the software won't let me.
Oh well, I won't be back anytime soon.

Amibay has WEIRD rules and restrictions in their terms of service. It would be great if the Amiga community had a service like Amibay without the WEIRD stuff! Seriously!