what's my 4000T worth?

[sprocket]

getting ready to list my 4000T on ebay and wanted to get some feedback on it's value.

I bought it new and it's been my main Amiga since 1996.  

(4000T's are rare to begin with and I've seen some with lots of boards go for nearly the same as ones that are near stock.)

As for mine...description includes:

- Quikpak 4000T
- Quikpak 50 Mhz '060 processor card with 128 mb of EDO ram
- 16 Mb of ram on MB (2 - 8Mb simms on mother board)
- motherboard battery has been removed and replaced with external battery holder
- 1-DD internal floppy has been replaced with 1-HD internal floppy
- Hard drive is 1 Gig Quantum with clean 3.1 install on it.
- I have a nice SCSI Teac CD burner/reader in it but haven't decided if I'm going to leave that in or use it in another machine.

***Machine is in perfect shape with the exception that the capacitors have degraded and leaked on the sound daughter board so there's no system sound.  Commodore used lower quality capacitors on this board and this is a known problem.  It doesn't effect the machine otherwise.

You may still be able to find a replacement daughter board but it may eventually suffer the same fate.  Another fix would be a better quality sound card with AHI.

I've decided to let this go because I have other Amigas and it's more machine then I need at the moment.

just wondering what others have seen a machine in this near base config go for.

thanks.

[Jeff]

The way things have been going lately it will probably get 800-1000 with the 68060 on Ebay.

I paid $400.00 for mine 2 years ago with an A3640 and Toaster/Flyer installed.

Good Luck
-Jeff

[sprocket]

I have a Toaster 4000 + DPS component input board but am uncertain about the state of the floppies I have for it.

I had planned on putting those up together but separate from the 4000T.

..not everyone is looking for Toaster stuff so my thought was it would do better alone.

sound right?

thanks.

[matthey]

A few months ago, I paid $630 for an Amiga Tech 4000T with Cyberstorm MK3 '060, ethernet card, 1084S Monitor, and a few other parts and software. $630 was my max bid on E-bay and it was matched but I won with the earlier bid. I think this was very much on the cheap side of what it should have brought. The single picture wasn't very good and the description should have been more detailed. Your system should bring $500-$800 with the bad board. The accelerator and 4000T would probably bring more apart if you have a spare 3640. I bought my system because I needed an accelerator and I could pick up a 4000T for $100-$200 more. Pretty dumb but that's the way it is. Oh yea, don't sell it if there is any chance you will regret it later.

[sprocket]

I've been piecing out my Amiga stuff for some time but am starting to have trouble testing things.

I've got two 4000Ds in disrepair, 1 semifunctional vanilla 2000 that I plan to move some boards into just for nostalgia's sake but I can't say I've really used the 4060T to it's potential for almost 2 years.  I do most of my Amiga stuff under emulation now and if someone else got some use out of the big box that's probably the best use for it.

I can't see these circumstances changing much for me...I mean I can still do the Amiga stuff I want with what I have.

I've been putting the 4000T back to near stock config and have been working on wiping my data and reinstalling 3.1 only to find my install floppies aren't cooperating.  Before I get too far as far as offering this up I need to work out how to get the clean install on the drive.

I've got a shelf full of floppies here and figure 70% of them may have errors at this point...oh well.

...working on getting cd driver working now to try to get things straight before I wipe the working OS...argh!  the joys of floppydom.

machine is fine, weak link is magnetic media that's 12 years old....

[Nlandas]

sprocket wrote:
I've got a shelf full of floppies here and figure 70% of them may have errors at this point...oh well.

...working on getting cd driver working now to try to get things straight before I wipe the working OS...argh!  the joys of floppydom.

machine is fine, weak link is magnetic media that's 12 years old....

How about grabbing some better quality DD floppies, I even see some for sale new old stock? Then since you own 3.1, just dump ADFs back to floppy to create them.

I'd love to actively use an A4000T but I can't afford the eBay prices. I wish I found one before all this collecting for money started.

-Nyle

[matthey]

The floppy drive may need cleaning too. The cleaner disks aren't so easy to find any more though. There is always the disassemble and use cotton swabs and alcohol but it's riskier.
Too bad Commodore shunned the CD except for the CDTV & CD32.

[Nlandas]

matthey wrote:
The floppy drive may need cleaning too. The cleaner disks aren't so easy to find any more though. There is always the disassemble and use cotton swabs and alcohol but it's riskier.
Too bad Commodore shunned the CD except for the CDTV & CD32.

I don't think Commodore shunned the CD but if memory serves when the A4000 was released they were still fairly expensive. If C= had been in business just a few years more - with the success of the CD32 I'm sure they'd have migrated right over to CDROM for the computers as well. I think I remember paying $500 for a 2X SCSI CDR drive back in 1993.

-Nyle

[matthey]

@Nlandas

Supposedly C= was going to come out with a CD-ROM and MPEG board kit for the 4000 but it was delayed and then canceled like C= was so famous for. I expect it would have had some kind of CD32 compatibility.