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Offline PhonicTopic starter

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Cheap A1200 on ebay
« on: February 26, 2006, 12:41:40 PM »
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Re: Cheap A1200 on ebay
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2006, 02:27:53 PM »
Handy link for the lazy.

It's in the US.
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Re: Cheap A1200 on ebay
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2006, 05:49:54 PM »
I think I would avoid this one unless you are willing and able to do some work on it.  If I am not mistaken, the current owner must have taken out the 3.1 ROMs and put back in the 3.0 ROMs, because OS3.9 that he claims to have had running on this A1200 won't run on the 3.0 that is inside it now.  He neglects to mention that to prospective buyers.
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Re: Cheap A1200 on ebay
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2006, 06:00:31 PM »
Not a bad deal but no LEDs, power supply, mouse and the power supply connector was fixed.  Could pose some real problems, not worth it for $80 IMHO.
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Re: Cheap A1200 on ebay
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2006, 06:09:24 PM »
It says in the description that it has KS 3.0 in there now.
Its obvious its not a mint 1200 and its definitely not described as mint so at least its an honest description.
Id prefer a seller to disclose problems with something like this rather than the buyer having to find out for himself.

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Re: Cheap A1200 on ebay
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2006, 06:19:25 PM »
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I think I would avoid this one unless you are willing and able to do some work on it.  If I am not mistaken, the current owner must have taken out the 3.1 ROMs and put back in the 3.0 ROMs, because OS3.9 that he claims to have had running on this A1200 won't run on the 3.0 that is inside it now.  He neglects to mention that to prospective buyers.

Or he could have softkicked it to run os3.9??
Not much of a big deal to replace a pair of rom chips anyways..
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Re: Cheap A1200 on ebay
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2006, 09:53:16 PM »

I bought the mint 1200 and accelerator board with 64meg of rAM from this guy, and he seems to be an honest bloke.  He described what was wrong with the 1200 I bought, which was very little and insignificant ass I don't plan on using the RF modulator anyway.

And anyone with any knowledge of OS39 would know it wouldn't run on the 3.0 ROMs.  So it's my guess he replaced the 3.1s that were there.   What's the big deal anyway?  It ain't a big deal to replace a couple of ROM chips.

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