Oh my God

[MarkAshley]

I've just added up what I've spent so far getting my new Amiga set up:

A1200 - £43
IDE Doubler - £12
Kickstart 3.1 - £21.50
Voodoo 3 - £20
Blizzard - £160
Mediator - £90
D-Box - £150

So far that makes it just shy of £500  :-o  :-o  :-o

Still, it's good to be back  :-D

[Amigaz]

£500? looks like you´re just warming up there

You could have got an loaded A4000 for that price

[MarkAshley]

Heh, yeah right :-) Actually it cost me a lot more the first time around (my first A1200 died, sadly). It was an A1200 in a Power Tower, Apollo 040, AteoBus/Pixel64 etc etc. I shudder to think how much it all cost at the time, when I was so naive I paid £185 for a 810Mb hard disk, and £150 for a 16x CD-ROM  :shocked:

[adolescent]

That's about what I have into my A4000.  But, I spread mine out over 3 years time so it didn't seem so bad.  (The A4000 sat unused for a year after I bought it even)

[Abou27]

Atleast it shouldn't depreciate too much:-)

[MASACREWILL]

..thats nice price, I have bought an A4000 for 500 pounds six years ago, which was not working at all, btw I was doped as hell on methamphetamine then.. so now I am quite more careful when upgrading my A1200 just for fun now..  :-x  :-x  8-)  8-)  :-D  :-P  :lol:

[Legerdemain]

Oh dear...

I do NOT want to think about how much I've spent on my A1200.

At first it was a clean A1200. Brand new. Bought it just a couple of months after its launch.

Then came the age of eploration. I bought myself a brand new Blizzard 1220. Fun, but I missed having a HD so I bought a 170MB one (which I refuse to remember how much it costed since it was hillariously expensive at the time). Though the Blizzard 1220 started to feel a bit boring So I upgraded to a Blizzard 1230 III. However this one was broken so I upgraded yet again to a Blizzard 1230 IV and bought myself some 16MB of RAM which was expensive as hell at the time.

Then came the age of CD so I bought myself a PCMCIA Squirrel SCSI controller together with a 2x CD-ROM. Which refused to work (until I realised that one of the holes in the PCMCIA card was stuffed with plastic and in the process had pushed one of the pins out of place... got it fixed in a jiffy with some super glue though). After a week the CD-ROM started to burn, so I had to exchange it for a new one (had to wait two months, I think, to get it replaced).

Then came the age of nothingness. I forgot about the computer because I had toyed with it to death and it was pretty much unused for a couple of years. Occasional session of toying around came about, but they were fewer and fewer.

Then came the age of renaissance when I realised that I did want to go for some major expansions. Bought myself a Power Tower and found one guy selling off a complete A1200 with Blizzard 1260, SCSI Kit IV, Mediator, Voodoo 3, Soundblaster  and some other stuff. Bought it. Sold off my Blizzard 1230 (what a loss, got practically nothing for it). Also got hold of a new FastATA controller and a keyboard, an A4000 one.

Then came the age of darkness. I got the chills and didn't realise what to do with all the hardware so I sold it all off, all but the A1200 and the Blizzard 1260 and the SCSI Kit IV.

Then some two months later came the age of regretfulness. I realised that I did want all of that hardware to play around with. Bought myself a brad new tower, the Mirage 1200 (it just so happened that it was like a month before Polen got EU membership, which I didn't know anything about so I had to pay some hefty amount of toll). Got myself a Mediator 1200 SX and once again a Soundblaster 128, network card and a Voodoo 3. Got hold of two 128MB EDO's... just for the fun of it... and yes, this time around it felt very satisfying. Also I figured I would want a scandoubler/flickerfixer to be able to run everything on one Monitor, so I looked around for one until I got so fed up with it that I bought another complete A1200 together with an external ScanMagic just to get hold of it. It didn't work the way I wanted it to, and it almost always was about to break the port connected to when having it in the tower... so, I sold it and its accompanying A1200 and bought an internal ScanMagic instead (which GGS Data just happened to have in stock at the time).

Now is the age of happiness. But I'm rather scared of calculating the exact money I've spent during the years on my beloved A1200. Nothing I've sold have I made a profit out of. It's somewhat scary, really!

[MASACREWILL]

..yes, now its the age of hapiness, we dont want to be better than PC, we just want to play with something.. and we can.. later tomorrow I will write here my whole "Amiga story" and the price it cost me.. but I will never regret that experince.. :-)

[minator]

I shudder to think how much it all cost at the time, when I was so naive I paid £185 for a 810Mb hard disk, and £150 for a 16x CD-ROM

Heh, I once paid £200 for a 60MB HD a few years later I paid another £200 for a 4X CD-ROM.  Even the floppy drive was £90!

Prices have come down a bit since then...

[amigadave]

To some of us (me most of all) collecting, upgrading and maintaining Amiga computers and peripherals borders on madness.  I am finally going to start selling some of my collection within the next few weeks as I get it all sorted to decide what to keep and what to sell.  I still have my original A1000 and have never sold any of my Amigas yet, and I have bought many just to obtain the cards that were inside them.  At last count I own 18 Amigas that work or with just a little help will work.  I am planning on getting that number down to about half if I can bear to part with some.  Cost over the last 18 years is many thousands of dollars.  I still remember that first hard drive, 105mb for over $700 US dollars and I thought I would never fill it up.   Ha!  How times have changed.  I am also a fan of the DCTV product, but ended up with a few more than I need, so if you are interested, let me know.  I will post the items here first before I list them on eBay.  
 :-D