Amiga A3000T Ebay

[amiga92570]

Get ready to be shocked, its going up in price. Wow!! :crazy:

[Ral-Clan]

Hah!  Look at this VIC-20!

http://tinyurl.com/y7bzd6

400 Euros and still 6 days to go in the auction.

And we thought Amigas were expensive!

(Note: this is a rare Japanese version).

[sdyates]

Yes, I would value an A3000T over an A4000 anyday!

The only benefit I see inthe A4000 is the AGA.

The A3000 is a much better design and can run just as fast as the A4000. The A3000 also have much faster ram. If I was to get an A4000, it would eb the A4000T and not the desktop.

It is not hard to be faster than an A4000. I have an 040 board for the A2000 toaster and it is 10% faster that a stock 4000 which uses the 3640 just as the A3000T.

The AA3000 ot the A3000+ should have been the next Amiga and not the A4000.

[T3000]

shazam!
I payed $800us for mine about 8 years ago or so. It was basicly stock with a 3640, 16mgs ram, and 2 1gig drives, also some kinda tape drive and an AD516.
The one on auction looks to like it'll exceed $1000.

[Tahoe]

X-ray wrote:
@ Tahoe
I am just curious: do you value the A3000T more than the A4000T? Why?

Personaly; I do. But then again; that's my personal favorite.

Why? Basically because the A3000T has almost anything the 4000T has; except for AGA. But added it has an integrated kick-ass Flicker Fixer, everything is socketed/upgradable and takes A4000 accelerators.

Also; the overall build quality feels much better then the A4000T, 4000T's have a tendency to burn off the power supply connector to the mainboard...

Downsides to the 3000T are lack of AGA and the usage of highly sought after (ie: expensive) ZIPP memory modules. And possibly the lack of an IDE interface; although in my 4000T i don't use it at all.

I do agree "out of the box" the 4000T would have a slight advantage; but adding an accelerator and a gfx card with passthrough (like mine with a CV64) to a 3000T would give it the advantage for me.

It's a hypothetical question though; as I own a 4000T, a 3000T and a A3000T-040. Just working on getting me an A3500...

[oldman3000]

This makes me very happy, I know that the A3000T is good, but I didn't think it would go that high!

I guess I'll keep mine for a little longer, 10 or 12 years.
I would like know how much mine would have gone for?
A3000T, GVP 040/40/32 megs Trex, Spectrum 28/24, IV24, DPS with IV frame grabber, syquest 270meg, 2 HD floppies, 3 HD, spare emplant and 3128 memory board.

Mike
San Diego

[x56h34]

Tahoe wrote:

Also; the overall build quality feels much better then the A4000T, 4000T's have a tendency to burn off the power supply connector to the mainboard...

It's because of the crappy power supply that Escom used. Replace it with a better AT power supply and the burning P8/P9 connectors issue would be totally gone.

Downsides to the 3000T are lack of AGA and the usage of highly sought after (ie: expensive) ZIPP memory modules. And possibly the lack of an IDE interface; although in my 4000T i don't use it at all.

A4000T comes with a better SCSI controller too. Its performance equals to any other top rated DMA SCSI-II controller available for Amiga, which means 10MB/s theoretical speed limit. The A3000's and A3000T's SCSI controller can push maybe as much as 4MB/s, with all the custom chips upgraded to the maximum revision level (DMAC 4, RAMSEY 7, WD-SCSI 8, Buster 11...although Buster revision shouldn't really matter too much as far as SCSI is conserned).

It's also cool that A4000T uses standard AT power supplies, so once your PSU fails it's easy to replace it with another AT or even better an ATX PSU (through an AT to ATX converter cable).

Built in flicker fixer is cool with A3000T, but just get a Picasso IV and stick it in your A4000T and there you go. :-)

[X-ray]

Ja I agree. I reckon the A4KT is the daddy.
But anyway, that A3KT seems to be fetching a nice price!

[tonyvdb]

Over $800 and still 20 hrs to go looks like it may hit $1000 :-o
When I bought my A3000T 040 with 16 fast & 2 chip ram it was just out (1992 I beleave) and I payed $2100 for it. They were not cheep when they were released.