Free: A1200HD/40 w/monitor, software

[bendavis22]

Being a "computer guy," people tend to give me old stuff they don't want anymore. One of those things is an Amiga 1200. I had a C64 back in the day and then next computer was an Amstrad PC and now I just use Windows and Unix based stuff. I never used an Amiga, so I'm not sure how to use this thing. I have turned it on and verified it does come to an OS, however, I don't know how to do anything in that OS. This Amiga was used as a home business computer for a friend of my parents. It has a lot of business software with it. I see titles like Pro Write, Brilliance, Opus, Quarterback Tools, Final Copy II, Deluxepaint IV AGA, and Professional Calc. I at least know there exists this enthusiast community who would hate for me to put this out at the curb, so if you pay for shipping and packaging of the monitor, it's yours. I am located in Danville, IL. I have some pics which I can post here if someone shows interest.

[skurk]

If I lived anywhere near IL, I'd be on your doorstep this very moment.

[Homer]

Yeah, I'm not much closer :-(

[weirdami]

Were they using it up until recently for their business? That's pretty cool.

(I can't get it, but you're in IL, there's loads of Amiga types in IL. At least, I know, Eric Schwartz (famous Amiga guy) lives up in the Champaign/Urbana aroundabouts.)

[c64_d0c]

show us pictures....
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Interacial

[hamtronix]

youve got PMAIL

[bendavis22]

Sorry I haven't responded to anyone's posts or private messages. I expected I would get email notification from this forum for all of that, but apparently I don't have that feature turned on.

I've got 7 PMs with people wanting this! I had no idea a 20 year old computer could be this popular! What can you do with this thing that so many people would want it?!?! I thought it was going to be hard to get rid of this thing, but I guess not! With all this interest, I might have to start taking bids since I don't know who to choose.

[tasmanian]

Well to be honest, to say that you're going to give it away for free and then retract the offer is a bit of a moral obligation issue.

Having said that, whoever private messaged/emailed you first should be the one who gets it.

If you wanted to find out if it had value or not why didn't you stick it on ebay with no reserve?

Also if anyone has got any donations for www.retrogameplay.com eg Commodore 64 books, magazines, Amiga stuff please contact admin@retrogameplay.com any donations would be greatly appreciated and would be all to happy to put on my web site that you have in fact donated to it.

Cheers


Retrogamer

[TheMagicM]

if you're going to give it away for free then do so.  

PS.  just give it away, its only worth $10.

[ChaosLord]

He should give it away to one of the following:

A: The first person.

or

B: The closest person.

or

C: The person who needs it the most.
(Which is of course, me :-D )

[weirdami]

bendavis22 wrote:
With all this interest, I might have to start taking bids since I don't know who to choose.

If there's a guy right close to you who pmailed you and can come pick it up, then they should probably get preference. Otherwise, the first person that pmailed you should get it. Don't go changing the rules.

[BR]

bendavis22 wrote:
Being a "computer guy," people tend to give me old stuff they don't want anymore. One of those things is an Amiga 1200. I had a C64 back in the day and then next computer was an Amstrad PC and now I just use Windows and Unix based stuff. I never used an Amiga, so I'm not sure how to use this thing. I have turned it on and verified it does come to an OS, however, I don't know how to do anything in that OS. This Amiga was used as a home business computer for a friend of my parents. It has a lot of business software with it. I see titles like Pro Write, Brilliance, Opus, Quarterback Tools, Final Copy II, Deluxepaint IV AGA, and Professional Calc. I at least know there exists this enthusiast community who would hate for me to put this out at the curb, so if you pay for shipping and packaging of the monitor, it's yours. I am located in Danville, IL. I have some pics which I can post here if someone shows interest.

I couldn't find a private email address listed
for you but I'm interested. I'm not far from Danville.
Bob Reising

[bendavis22]

I'll need to get a box for the monitor and packing material, so that will be part of the cost of shipping as I said before.

The first person who responded and is willing to cover the shipping cost should get it, unless someone decides to offer a bid.

I find no moral problem taking offers for those who may want to pay a little for it. Imagine being in a crowd of people and offering an item for free. 10 people come up and really want it. One of the people REALLY wants it, so he offers a dollar amount to take it. Someone else also REALLY wants it, so they make another bid. If someone really wants it that wants to offer dollars for an item marked as free, then fine. Unless this it is some sort of charity event where someone who really needs the item should get it for free, I see no problem with it.

And in reality, I am going probably to make a couple of dollars because when I estimate shipping, I am going to be conservative and add a few dollars to make sure I cover my costs in case the shipping amount is a little higher than my guestimation. It probably won't amount to more than $5, but I doubt it will exactly cover the shipping costs.

[bendavis22]

I don't know how I got this thing to bootup before, but I can't get anything to show up on the screen. I try to let it bootup via the hard drive by not putting any floppies in it. That does not work. I try several floppies marked as boot floppies that seem to load for a minute, but then stop. It stops at this state where it seems to look for a floppy disk in one of the drives (it has two external - I've tried with them and without them connected) every 2 seconds. If I put another one in one of the drives, it seems again to work on loading something, but nothing ever shows on screen and it goes back to checking the floppy drives every 2 seconds. I even tried the Commodore Install Disk Version 3.0 and it also does the same thing, seems to try to boot and then fails.

I have NO experience with Amigas. I am a systems engineer at a company with Windows systems and have experience with *nix, DOS, and my first computer was a Commodore 64, but zero Amiga experience.

Sorry to turn this into a support thread.  :cry:

[amigadave]

It is your choice to give or sell it to whomever you want, don't pay any attention to anyone that says you now have an obligation to anyone because you started a thread about giving it away.

Amigas are often sold on eBay, so you could check recent prices from there.

You might want to keep it to learn something about a system that you are not familiar with, then decide to give away or sell if you have no further interest in this unique platform that has been able to garner such fanatic interest after over 20 years since its inception.

Good luck and I hope you take the time to learn more about OUR favorite computer system.   :-)