Apologies in advance for being long winded, but ... first post and all...
in late 1991, I got my first used A500 (1.2/1.3) for $30, which I thought was an amazing deal. It was said to have a broken floppy, but after I hit it with some compressed air, it just worked! Basically visited BBSs, downloaded demos, played a lot of games with it. Used a data-over-voice modem to achieve 9600baud somehow. I hadn't an RGB monitor yet, so I was using A520 composite. Soon after I purchased a used 1000 which came with RGB monitor, and I believe I paid around $200 for both.
then in early 1993: purchased a vanilla A1200 w/ 40 mb harddisk, from one of the last standing dealers in my area, which set me back maybe $699 or so?
Then I purchased an Microbotics 030 card w/16M + RTC.
Somehow got an A2000 around 1994 for $125. Bought an surplus stock Bridgeboard 286 kit and somehow figured out how to use Janus to boot WB from a bootfloppy using the harddisk attached to the bridgeboard. Eventually that got fitted with extra ram, 68010(!) and supra drive controller. Ultimately it was 2mb ECS system w/ cd-rom.
Then I purchased an Apollo 040 for the 1200, w/ 64m ram. (1996?)
1998-99 towerized the A1200 with Micronik ZII backplane and added Blizzard 060/240mhzPPC + PicIV + Xsurf + Ioblix.
then I sold it all in pieces a few years ago. (The blizzard itself went for $700) and kept an A2000/030 + video toaster.
