I won an a4000 csppc auction! :)

[da9000]

Gulp!!! $1230+S/H. I'm sorry guys, that maybe "cheap" by today's ridiculous prices, but it ain't really cheap. So I'm with Tokyoracer and Krusher on this. Especially the fact that many setups go to dust collectors... and never get used. I'd love to get a PPC setup to get back to doing some Amiga programming for OS4, but it's damn near impossible the way these things are selling...

Now, perhaps we're blaming collectors even though there may not be so many out there (was there ever a poll?), but frankly from all the posts I've read on a.org, there seem to be a lot with such kit just sitting doing nothing (and some don't respond to mails either...). Come to think of it, there's *huge* set of auctions on eBay from some Canadian guy. This guy either had a store or was well stashed :-) He's got awesome gear, and there's so much, I doubt it was really used often/daily.

BUT, the scary thing with this A4000 auction ( even though, I do admit, it's a very nice setup and I wish arnljot the best of luck with his new toy :-) ), is: how do you trust your $1230/840euros to a guy with 0 rating!?!?!?!? And no paypal or similar payment service!??!!? THAT scares the crap out of me on deals overseas!

My 2 de-valueating dollar cents.

[Methuselas]

@ Arnljot



Let me know when you get it, so I can send you my mailing address.  :crazy:

[Gwion]

Thats LOADZ!
I would have just bought a Macbook Pro or something.
It is a good amiga but get a life :-) lol

[spihunter]

Thats almost the same price that I sold my MK3 060/Picasso 4 A4000 back in 1998!

I guess the market is'nt much different now?. I'm afriad these machines are even more rare these days?

[zyphoid]

alot of hating going on but I'm happy for you man!!!if you want something bad and can afford it..you get it!
Hell I'm still dreaming of getting any form of speed for my amiga, so cheers dude and enjoy your prize!!! :-D  :-)

[arnljot]

My "last" amiga back in the previous century was:
Amiga 4000
CS PPC 060 + 233mhz
CVPPC
Buddha IDE + some IDE disks
Quantum 9GB UW SCSI
Plextor SCSI2 cd burner
Prelude ZII sound board
Ariadne Network card
HyperCOM Serial/Paralell card Card

I now have:
A PicassoIV in waiting
My old hacked A4000 motherboard
A Blizzard 4030@50mhz with FPU
Some memory
My Prelude sound card
A 2065 network card
An Amiga500 with extra memory
An Amiga1200 (stock)
A Amiga1200 motherboard (bust)
++ misc

I love all that stuff. And if something starts to collect dust, I'll do the right thing: First offer it here, then if there is no sale put it on ebay.

When I get my new Amiga4000 I'll start looking into getting serious about C++, and do some simple hobby projects. I have nothing particular in mind atm.

[da9000]

zyphoid wrote:
Hell I'm still dreaming of getting any form of speed for my amiga...

A1200T Mid-Night 060@50mhz
tv tuner, voodoo banshee, usb subway, mediator
Dual Multi partition 200Gig 2.5/3.5HD
Twin dual-layer lite-on dvd 52x dvd-rw
sx-32pro 030@50mhz my favorite system

 :roll:

I don't think there's hating going on zyphoid, but probably envy.


@arnljot:

What sort of "hacked A4000 motherboard" do you have? Anything interesting you wanna share?

[arnljot]

da9000 wrote:
@arnljot:

What sort of "hacked A4000 motherboard" do you have? Anything interesting you wanna share?

I got this guy in Bergen/Norway back in 97 to desolder most of the IO ports from the motherboard, and solder the sockets on flat cables (I'll post a pic later).

I had this done so that I could fit it in a PC case I found.

[da9000]

Aha, cool. I was wondering, since I know some Spanish guy has done the 16MB -> 64MB hack... but there are no photos or documentation about this anywhere :-(

[spihunter]

I'm not hating! I'm just adding some auction history facts to the mix.

If its worth that much to you, then good! I'm glad its going to the right person. :-)

A4000's need a proper home!

[Dragster]

@Arnljot

Well said! I'd have bought it in a second too! me like you, have a good job and easily I could have afforded it, so enjoy playing with it and let it have OS4! It rocks!

Cheers,

Dragster

PD. I never said it was cheap,  I said FAIR price.

[amiga92570]

da9000 wrote:
Gulp!!! $1230+S/H. I'm sorry guys, that maybe "cheap" by today's ridiculous prices, but it ain't really cheap. So I'm with Tokyoracer and Krusher on this. Especially the fact that many setups go to dust collectors... and never get used. I'd love to get a PPC setup to get back to doing some Amiga programming for OS4, but it's damn near impossible the way these things are selling...

Now, perhaps we're blaming collectors even though there may not be so many out there (was there ever a poll?), but frankly from all the posts I've read on a.org, there seem to be a lot with such kit just sitting doing nothing (and some don't respond to mails either...). Come to think of it, there's *huge* set of auctions on eBay from some Canadian guy. This guy either had a store or was well stashed :-) He's got awesome gear, and there's so much, I doubt it was really used often/daily.

BUT, the scary thing with this A4000 auction ( even though, I do admit, it's a very nice setup and I wish arnljot the best of luck with his new toy :-) ), is: how do you trust your $1230/840euros to a guy with 0 rating!?!?!?!? And no paypal or similar payment service!??!!? THAT scares the crap out of me on deals overseas!

My 2 de-valueating dollar cents.

Have I got a deal for you! quit complaining, I have several ppc cyberstorms (all 233) and would consider selling one. email me at damnstraight92570@yahoo.com if your serious about buying one. I don't log on here much anymore so get me an offer. Os 4.0 is quit a piece! I am almost near the brink of abandonment. And no, I am not a collector.

[TheGoose]

Congrats G that is a mad Amiga. Welcome to the PPC club! I could not think of better home for it and it will be used unlike no machine around here - trust me.

I think it is good price. But the state of the dollar (wooden nickel) is no variable spihunter controls. Still, think how cool the resale value of a Commodore 1990s machine like this is compared to a peecee, duh. Oh yeah, give me my $1000.00 loaded to tilt 100 Mhz Pentium Pro with doom right now or I'll puke! lol.

Someone said "I don't think there's hating going on zyphoid, but probably envy."

Um yeah. I am. {bleep}'s got 2 060s now.

Maybe I should bring back my "who's got the most hotrod A1000" contest?


 :pint:

[da9000]

TheGoose wrote:
Oh yeah, give me my $1000.00 loaded to tilt 100 Mhz Pentium Pro with doom right now or I'll puke! lol.

Actually an authentic 100Mhz PPro would cost much more than $1000 since they were only released at 150Mhz and above :-P

TheGoose wrote:
Someone said "I don't think there's hating going on zyphoid, but probably envy."

I did.

TheGoose wrote:
Um yeah. I am. {bleep}'s got 2 060s now.

Huh?

[Bonami]

@ Arnljot

Congrats! It's a dear price to pay, though! But if you could afford it, by all means.
My concern is same as that of da9000  --  the seller just registered with eBay the same day he listed it. I hope you and the seller are both in Netherlands, and that the transation went well.
Perhaps you can keep us updated when you finally lay your hand on your dream machine.
Cheers!

[Ral-Clan]

Krusher wrote:
€840... People like you are sickening the Amiga market. I'm sorry but I'm not happy with those numbers. I hope you use her and not store her as a museum piece like a lot of people.

While I don't feel as strongly about this as the above poster, I do feel it's a waste when someone buys a PPC "only" to play games, play MP3s and watch DVDs (not saying the original poster is going to do this).  In these cases the PPC's full potential goes unused.  I consider this a shame, when such a PPC Amiga would make a big difference to someone doing "productivity" work where horsepower is needed: multi-track audio recording, video editing, ray tracing, desktop publishing, etc.  These sort of things really require a PPC and push it to the limit - also creating something new in the process.

However, I fully acknowledge that it is his money and his property.  So he can buy the PPC board and smash it with a hammer if he so chooses.  I have no right to say anything about it.

It's just too bad that the mad dash for these boards has driven prices so far up - making them unaccessible to most who could really use them.  

But I still hold out the very faintest of hopes that *someone* has something up their sleeve for 2008 (read: new PPC boards to go with the release of OS4 Classic).  :-D