I won an a4000 csppc auction! :)

[CLS2086]

Enjoy it !
It's fair price for a quite well loaded system !

[MickTheLip]

Prices is price you are prepared to pay for something you want! A scan doubler flicker fixer with minutes to go £129 on Ebay UK.Next stop the moon with these sort of prices.

[arnljot]

Well

I've agreed with the seller on local picup.

And I've bought myself plane tickes and a hotel room. So I will stay from friday till saturday there.

If anyone knows of Amiga worthy sites in Eindhoven or Amsterdam please let me know!

But I will arrive late friday (18:50 at Schiphol) and leave early on saturday (17:15)

And the trainride from Amsterdam to Eindhoven is 90 minutes each way.

I'll bring my camera, and document the adoption

[Krusher]

arnljot wrote:
...

And the trainride from Amsterdam to Schiphol is 90 minutes each way.

It only takes about 17 minutes from and to Schiphol Airport <=> Amsterdam Central Station.

Have a good stay!

[arnljot]

Krusher wrote:
It only takes about 17 minutes from and to Schiphol Airport <=> Amsterdam Central Station.

Have a good stay!

My mistake, I meant Amsterdam <->Eindhoven

Will fix it in my post

[Krusher]

arnljot wrote:


My mistake, I meant Amsterdam <->Eindhoven

Will fix it in my post

 :-D Too bad it's not an Amiga laptop you're getting  :lol:
Anyway make shure it's packaged good and sturdy, those guys at luggage at airports aren't exactly people you want to handle your computer....

[arnljot]

Krusher wrote:
 :-D Too bad it's not an Amiga laptop you're getting  :lol:
Anyway make shure it's packaged good and sturdy, those guys at luggage at airports aren't exactly people you want to handle your computer....

I was planning on bringing antistatic bags and cardboard boxes with foam to take the PPC and PicassoIV as carry on, and only have the box, HD and Motherboard etc in my checked in bagage.

This way I hope to minimize risk.

[da9000]

I'd take the whole box with me in the plane. Just get a big enough bag, and add some padding to it. It shouldn't be oversized. I hope :-)

[skurk]

Cheap or no, it's a very configurqation.  Congratulations, arnljot.

I spent more than that building my A4000 from scratch.  I'm talking CSPPC, PicassoIV, X-Surf, tons of RAM and disk space, etc etc etc..

[persia]

Is €840 a ridiculous amount of money for ancient technology?  Yes, of course it is.  Is €840 the total opposite of what Amiga started out as?  Yes, Amiga was leading edge technology for less, now it not even trailing edge technology for the price of cutting edge technology.

Philosophically Amiga has turned a corner, and for many of us that is a sad day.  I don't think it's right to attack buyer or seller.  The seller has a right to whatever he or she can get for their product.  And from the buyer's point of view €840 is really a bit less than most people's weekly income, so you can't blame the buyer either.  

But, for those of us who were amongst the first A1000 owners it is a sad day, it is the loss of the dream of great technology at a great price.  Let us also recognise that.  Maybe it's really the message on the wall, there's really no place for us old dreamers in the new Amiga world.  Sigh  :bigcry:  :bigcry:

[arnljot]

Here is a pic of my old card, someone asked which "hacks" I'd done to it.


another pic

last pic

[ami_junki]

arnljot wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEBTOX:IT&item=160195063445&_trksid=p3984.cTODAY.m238.lVI

Yay, I'm the proud owner soon as I won this auction!

Well done mate, they are lovely machines ... I always dreamed of having an A4000, actually managed to get an A3000 with a Picasso II once but then stupidly traded it for an A1200 doh!  :-o  But good on you mate for getting the A4000, shame it is so expensive though, I can understand how others feel in that it places the higher end Amigas (still) out of the hands many other people.  Anyways, enjoy the machine and I hope that you will get many great Amiga hours and new memories from it!  :-D

[arnljot]

Okay, I'm now at an internet cafe in Eindhoven in the Netherlands (.nl)

I have my amiga with me, and it's really well packaged and the picassoiv, drives and csppc is in my carry on luggage.

Eric turned out as I sucpected to be a really cool and decent guy.

Now I'm just waiting for the train to take me to Sciphol so that I can get back to Oslo and set up this baby!

[adonay]

*gratulerer* Looks like you got a hell of an amiga

[Lazaruz]

Hei Arnljot,

Gratulerer med fint Amiga. Hope you enjoy my old machine. Nice you noticed me being 'cool and decent'. :-)

And yes, i agree it is a lot of money, but my new amiga (WinUAE on a Dell Laptop) was a lot more expesive still. Also a lost a lot more money on my A2000 that i bought for 2500euro, expanded with another few 1000euros and gave away for free last week. :-)

Eric

[arnljot]

[color=ff0000]YAY IT BOOTED![/color][/b]

Now ofcourse it SFS file system {bleep}es about something being wrong with "DH6:" on "BakBench".

So I guess the UltraWide SCSI drive (68 pins) is okay, and it's the FastSCSI drive (50 pins) which is botched.

The way it's set up is so that:
[uw scsi]<-->[CS STORM]<--->[FastSCSI HD]<---->[CDROM]

TODO:
1) Get One nice working SCSI HD
2) Buy some seriously shorter SCSI cables (there is almost 2 meters of scsi cables inside the poor litle box!
3)Find someone who will sell or build me a NoIDE hack
Get a BUI Transiver for my network card, or buy a new from AmiKit
4) Insert my Prelude soundcard and start enjoying!

And under