FS: Brand New (NOS) QuickPak Amiga 4000 Towers

[rockape]

Hi,

Can you I have one please.

Kind Regards, Michael

aka rockape

[Ilwrath]

This is terrible news, Red.  I definitely don't need a Brand New QuickPak Amiga 4000 Tower... ...But now I want one.  You {bleep}!!!

I'm curious to know pricing and options, at least.  

When you find that stash of NOS Cyberstorm PPCs it will be a sad day for my bank account.

[_ThEcRoW]

Any news on prices red? I'm too interested!!

[redrumloa]

_ThEcRoW wrote:
Any news on prices red? I'm too interested!!

Don't shoot me!! I thought I would have more information for you today or i would have waited to post anything. It may be a couple days for more details.. There are several layers to peel back to get to the center..

[recidivist]

You shameless teaser!

I've three sofas and can't find even a $100 under the cushion

It is amazing what sometimes gets left in a warehouse or stockroom;I recently missed out on cases of brand-new zip disks a local university threw out to make room for newer items.I waited to long to make them an offer that I could afford and everybody lost out.

[hardlink]

HammerD wrote:
Just so everyone knows, you have always been able to get NOS A4000T's from Software Hut for about $1000 USD.  You just have to e-mail them and ask.  I bought one last year.

Exactly, HammerD; I'm not sure what the big fuss is about. I bought TWO of them from from Software Hut last year, With 060 boards!

One of them is still in the crate because I want to take a photo series of unpacking a factory fresh A4000T  :-D

[ltstanfo]

weirdami wrote:
I don't think I remember ever hearing about Quickpak. Are they a company Commodore chose to manufacture the A4000T or are these some kind of Amiga clone?

Please see my previous post on page 1.

In summary - QuikPak was THE licensed US assembler for A4000T during the ESCOM/AT days (if you bought an ESCOM A4000T in the US, it was assembled by QuikPak).  They took the A4000T boards / cards and put them into cases... early stocks used the same case as the ESCOM A4000T but there was a late production version that used a much better (larger with bigger power supply) case aimed at the video market.  QuikPak is best remembered for their A4060 accelerator card, which is considered the best / fastest by some for its use of EDO RAM.  There were plans for an onboard SCSI update for the card but I don't think it was ever released (you sent your card back for a hardware / software update).

As for NTSC or PAL, there is indeed a jumper on the mobo to help with that.  The problem (if you want to do video) is the that Video Toaster / Video Flyer were only produced for the NTSC market.

Now, QuikPak was at one time trying to bid for the remains of C= / ESCOM but they lost out.  They did have some interesting ideas for the future.  Too bad they didn't win.

Follow this link and look for QuikPak.  The brief article provides useful (if not dated) info on the company.

Regards,
Ltstanfo
Moderator AO

[redrumloa]

hardlink wrote:

Exactly, HammerD; I'm not sure what the big fuss is about. I bought TWO of them from from Software Hut last year, With 060 boards!

One of them is still in the crate because I want to take a photo series of unpacking a factory fresh A4000T  :-D

This is like running into a Coke factory and proclaiming Pepsi is better. Anyone who thinks they can source an A4000T at Software hut, be my guest.

[hardlink]

redrumloa wrote:
This is like running into a Coke factory and proclaiming Pepsi is better. Anyone who thinks they can source an A4000T at Software hut, be my guest.

No offense redrumola, I'm not claiming Pepsi or Coke is better. I just thought it was general knowledge that new old stock A4000T's have always been available at a price for those who need them, this has even been discussed here, and was surprised at the reaction.

I'd rather see them being used by the community rather than corroding in a warehouse no matter who sells them! The more time people are using a real Amiga, the better.

[redrumloa]

FWIW I doubt they can be sourced at Software Hut any longer, but I certainly do not speak for them.

[cv643d]

Are we talking hundreds or thousands A4000T:s?

I am maybe interested, but that depends on the price :-)

I am trying to remember why I can not afford 4.1/SAM last week ;-)

[redrumloa]

cv643d wrote:
Are we talking hundreds or thousands A4000T:s?

I am maybe interested, but that depends on the price :-)

I am trying to remember why I can not afford 4.1/SAM last week ;-)

No, we are talking in the dozens. From the interest shown here, it may be "just enough".

[buzz]

What do you think shipping to the UK would cost for such a heavy item ?

[McVenco]

redrumloa wrote:

No, we are talking in the dozens.

Double You Tee Eff! Seems you found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow  :lol:  :lol:

[cv643d]

redrumloa wrote:
No, we are talking in the dozens. From the interest shown here, it may be "just enough".

Nice, according to Wikipedia, dozen is 12. So around 12 A4000T. Cool :-)

You should line them up and snap a foto before you sell them  :-D

[motorollin]

cv643d wrote:

redrumloa wrote:
we are talking in the dozens

Nice, according to Wikipedia, dozen is 12.

Dozens (plural) = some multiple of 12. Or 12x, where x is the number of dozens :-P

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moto