A3000 - what's it worth?

[Fixer]

alexh wrote:
2010 : Amiga owners get married, computer junk no longer acceptable in the house, prices start to go down as the supply of Amiga's on Ebay outstrips demand.

2012 : Most Amiga owners now feeling the pinch of having 3 kids and a mortgage as interest rates spiral. Everything computer like not essential must be sold to pay the mortgage and university fee's! Prices of Amiga's hit rock bottom.

Lol! Brilliant foresight.

[jim_ford]

alexh wrote:
The prices of Amiga's go up and down in value quite a lot.

2012 : Most Amiga owners now feeling the pinch of having 3 kids and a mortgage as interest rates spiral.

2012?!? The world comes to an end in 2012.  :lol:

[orange]

no it doesn't! it ended in 2000.   ;-)

[hamtronix]

I brought this up many months ago but does anyone know of a way to do a historical search on Ebay. It would be awesome to see the price all the A2000s (etc) went for for the past year or six months... I would think ebay wouldnt let a price indexing resource like they have go to waste.

[murple]

You used to be able to search ebay back a long time, but now it only goes back about 3 months. You do a normal search but check the "Completed listings" box.

Way less useful than the feature used to be.

[BinoX]

alexh wrote:
2010 : Amiga owners get married, computer junk no longer acceptable in the house, prices start to go down as the supply of Amiga's on Ebay outstrips demand.

lol... How true that is At least me and my fianceé have an agreement for this one When we get married I'm gunna move all my computer stuff out of the bedroom and into it's own dedicated room so she doesn't have to see it
Roll on Retro-Room

2012 : Most Amiga owners now feeling the pinch of having 3 kids and a mortgage as interest rates spiral. Everything computer like not essential must be sold to pay the mortgage and university fee's! Prices of Amiga's hit rock bottom.

Sadly, I can see this becoming a reality Except the 3 kids part... On the bright side though, I have a lot of systems and I will hang onto as many of them for as long as possible. (I still regret the day many years ago that my dad cleared out his attic and threw away all the old computer stuff that was up there.. I shoulda said something... )

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On the bright side though.. it may mean I can finally get my hands on an A3000UX and an A2500UX system.. heh

[Homer]

Uh ! Feels like its 2012 already here then. Wow,  :-?
Time for a :pint: to dull the pain  :crazy:

[tonyyeb]

Just booted her up and it says:

927560 Graphics mem (i guess these are in bytes)
248048 Other mem

So 1mb RAM and 256k Fast RAM?

Not sure of the HD size - ill take off the case and take a look later.

[tonyyeb]

Woop woop! Just found the keyboard and mouse!!!

[T3000]

Homer wrote:
Uh ! Feels like its 2012 already here then.

Shazam! I'm still working on 1989... :-D

[countzero]

A3000 is the king of ECS machines. Onboard scandoubler, 030 processor + FPU, SCSI controller, Zorro3 capability, slick, sexy design ... what more can you ask ? AGA is another matter of course. I think you really should get hold of a utility like sysinfo and properly check the configuration. There's also the 16MHz vs 25 MHz 030 issue.

[Fixer]

tonyyeb wrote:
Just booted her up and it says:

927560 Graphics mem (i guess these are in bytes)
248048 Other mem

So 1mb RAM and 256k Fast RAM?

Hmmm..

I'm inclined to say it's stock but didn't the A3000 come with 1mb DIP in the chip and another 1mb DIP in the fast?

[tonyyeb]

countzero wrote:
A3000 is the king of ECS machines. Onboard scandoubler, 030 processor + FPU, SCSI controller, Zorro3 capability, slick, sexy design ... what more can you ask ? AGA is another matter of course. I think you really should get hold of a utility like sysinfo and properly check the configuration. There's also the 16MHz vs 25 MHz 030 issue.

How do i get sysinfo onto an A3000 with no cd rom, no network, no usb (!) etc... Do they take IDE CD ROM's?  :-?

[Fixer]

There's no native IDE on the A3000.

But tbh that's part of its charm to me. :-D

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Edit: Also aren't the 16mhz versions rare - almost negates the fact that it's slower.

You can always find one of those A3630s on eBay for cheap surely? So I'd say that doesn't really matter.

[tonyyeb]

I cant even use serial transfer as the amiga looks to be a blank install. Anyone got sysinfo on a floppy they want to post to me!!!???  :-D

[countzero]

if you have wb 2, you should have crossdos. check storage/dosdrivers. if there's a pc0 you're in luck. double click on it and now you can use 720k dos formatted floppy disks.

if you have a spare dd disk, format it 720k on your windows (there's a command to do it for windows xp, but it excapes me at the moment) put lha and lha'ed sysinfo in this disk. and expand sysinfo at amiga side. you also unzip sysinfo and copy it directly to disk, but dos filename restrictions will mess amiga filenames.

if you don't have a dd disk, you can use a hd covering the extra hole with a duct tape.