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[jiminy]

adolescent wrote:
I'd say <$200.  If it was a 25MHz model then $800+ for sure!   :lol:

Whoops!  I didn't realize it was a 16mhz model.  Good eye... gonna have to revise my guess

[McVenco]

jiminy wrote:

Want to guess how much this one will go for?  I'm going to say  $715.

For half that price you can have my spare A3000 :-)

[tokyoracer]

It seems A3000's are rare here in the UK. The 2000's were a more popular machine.

[jiminy]

McVenco wrote:

jiminy wrote:

Want to guess how much this one will go for?  I'm going to say  $715.

For half that price you can have my spare A3000 :-)

Heh, I did pay about that for an A3000 with all the ram stripped, no keyboard etc.  which turned out to have flaky video and SCSI.  But I am wiser now.  Not much, but a little.

[McVenco]

Heh, I did pay about that for an A3000 with all the ram stripped, no keyboard etc.  which turned out to have flaky video and SCSI.  But I am wiser now.  Not much, but a little.

The only flaky thing about my spare A3000 is the 1.4 ROM. The rest is just fine - SCSI and flickerfixer are working, there's 1MB Chip and 8MB Fast (ZIPs). Keyboard and mouse are a bit dirty but working :-)

[persia]

4.5 days to go and it's off into the collectors price range, this baby is going to hit the sky.  Two years and an Amiga will cost more than a Cray!!!

[A6000]

I cannot see anywhere in the ebay page where it says the processor runs at 16mhz, but how much rarer are 16mhz machines, this could affect the price.

[jiminy]

A6000 wrote:
I cannot see anywhere in the ebay page where it says the processor runs at 16mhz, but how much rarer are 16mhz machines, this could affect the price.

The sharp-eyed Amigan, which I am not (but getting better) realizes that the 68881 fpu means 16mhz 68030.  The 25mhz came with a 68882.

Really if you are going to use a processor accelerator anyway, it doesn't matter if it's 16mhz does it?  No other differences?

[jiminy]

The only flaky thing about my spare A3000 is the 1.4 ROM. The rest is just fine - SCSI and flickerfixer are working, there's 1MB Chip and 8MB Fast (ZIPs). Keyboard and mouse are a bit dirty but working

Well, I've got a working A3000 right now, which is what I was after.  The only thing that would get me to pay that price again is perfect cosmetics and operation, never any battery leakage.  Or if mine quits... :-P

[Darrin]

persia wrote:
4.5 days to go and it's off into the collectors price range, this baby is going to hit the sky.  Two years and an Amiga will cost more than a Cray!!!

Damn, $204 already!  I'll have to dust of my A3000 and fix that battery.  My keyboard looks a lot better than that one, I have 2 floppy drives and it's a 25MHz 030.

I bought it to expand, but the A3000 case just pissed me off so I ended up getting an ECS A2000 and expanded that instead.  The A3000 would have been perfect if they had just kept it in the A2000 case.

[AMC258]

I have a plane jain A3000 desktop, 16MHz version, moderate keyboard, crappy mouse, 16M FAST, 3.1 ROM, no other expansion, that I'd probably part with for USD$800.  Oh, did I mention it's autographed by Dave Haynie and Petro Tyschenko :-D

I would consider USD$29,999 for my A3000UX with CSPPC, Meditator 4000T, Ariadne II, HyperCOM4, AT P/S.  I might keep the 'UX case.  I'd only consider selling it because with that amount I could pay off my 2nd mortgage.  Oh, and I'd throw in the 24" fan.

Oh, and since when are A3000's common on ePay???

"Coolest A3000 of the world" Not at all by FAR.

[jiminy]

Darrin wrote:

I bought it to expand, but the A3000 case just pissed me off so I ended up getting an ECS A2000 and expanded that instead.  The A3000 would have been perfect if they had just kept it in the A2000 case.

I wouldn't like the A3000 as much if it was in the A2000 case.  Aesthetically, it's the best looking Amiga to me.  But to each his own.  I might like the A2000 more if I had ever seen one with drives that matched the faceplate in color. :lol:

It's funny, I was just looking at the schematic manual for the A3000, and the very first line reads: "The A3000 is a cost reduced version of the A2500".  Huh? :crazy:

[mr_a500]

I'm the one who got this A3000, by the way. (...in fact, I'm using it to post this)

$400 was a bit higher than I wanted, but I didn't have to worry about shipping or customs - it was local. I also really wanted that 18Mb RAM so I wouldn't have to search for rare zip chips. It's in great condition and works perfectly.

Another thing: I used my A500 to bid on it... and won in the last 3 seconds. Actually, every eBay bid I've ever made was using my A500. My best timing ever was bidding at the exact second bidding ended. (bid time and end time were identical!)

[orange]

wow.. lovely..  :roll:

[mr_a500]

yes.. quite.. :roll: :inquisitive: