FS: Brand New (NOS) QuickPak Amiga 4000 Towers

[Kin-Hell]

ROFL @ cv643d & Moto!  :lol:

I was catching up on the thread & was gunno answer like Moto did, before I even read his reply!
It just went on from there.......

Chuckles..... :-D

[alexh]

Why couldn't you have found these back in July when the $ wasn't worth anything?

I could have easily justified one then at $2.10 = £1 :-)

[Kin-Hell]

Maybe he was already thinking ahead!  ;-)

[ltstanfo]

I have been asked by some users here to explain what happened to QuikPak.

In short, they were on the losing side of a lawsuit with ESCOM.

A lawsuit was filed in US court by Dr. Bernhard Hembach, the German court's ESCOM bankruptcy trustee, which halted QuikPak's production of A4000 computers. At the heart of the suit was a long standing dispute, predating the collapse of ESCOM, that concerned remaining Amiga stock (motherboards, chips, etc...) extended to QuikPak to produce A4000s.

The outcome / settlement forced QuikPak to send all remaining stocks to Germany which effectively killed the company.  I don't know whether additional A4000Ts were made in Germany subsequent to the court settlement.

As an interesting aside, QuikPak actually had some of C='s manufacturing equipment so they were well suited to build the A4000T's in the US.  I presume (but do not know) that when they sent the remaining stocks of A4000T parts to Germany that the manufacturing equipment went with it.

Regards,
Ltstanfo

[alexh]

Swop you 10 barrels of oil for one?

Erm, 9 barrels... 8... ;-)

[Kin-Hell]

 :-D  >PMSL<  :-D

[RMK305]

The outcome / settlement forced QuikPak to send all remaining stocks to Germany which effectively killed the company. I don't know whether additional A4000Ts were made in Germany subsequent to the court settlement.

As an interesting aside, QuikPak actually had some of C='s manufacturing equipment so they were well suited to build the A4000T's in the US. I presume (but do not know) that when they sent the remaining stocks of A4000T parts to Germany that the manufacturing equipment went with it.

I would love to know what happened with all the bits and pieces. Probably scrapped, but I suppose there is always a slim chance they are in storage somewhere after a company who was owed money from Escom took what it could from the liquidators.

[elhombre]

If the price is at acceptabe level - i'd like to buy one as well.

[McVenco]

alexh wrote:

Why couldn't you have found these back in July when the $ wasn't worth anything?

The dollar still isn't worth anything, it's just your British pound that is devaluating as well. But nooooo, you stubborn island dwellers wanted to keep your own money, rather than adapt the Euro.... :lol:

[icbrkr]

I've already got a 4000T with an MK2 060 in it (no SCSI on it).  Let's say these have the Quikpak 060 in them - would it be better to sell the MK2 and keep the Quikpak or vice-versa? I'm thinking of piecing out my current 4000T and picking one of these up.  I know the MK2 will at least pay for a good chunk of this 'new' one.

[don27dog]

There will be one less of these as I want one!!!

[ltstanfo]

icbrkr wrote:
I've already got a 4000T with an MK2 060 in it (no SCSI on it).  Let's say these have the Quikpak 060 in them - would it be better to sell the MK2 and keep the Quikpak or vice-versa? I'm thinking of piecing out my current 4000T and picking one of these up.  I know the MK2 will at least pay for a good chunk of this 'new' one.

It was generally accepted at the time that the A4060 accelerator card (QuikPak) was the best of breed until the CS MK3 came along.  Many people then (myself included) thought it was an even match (unless you wanted to use the VT in which case the CSMK3 won due to it's ability to add the onboard cybervisionPPC card (not the separate Cybervisions that used a video slot).

So, my advice would be to sell the MK2 *IF* you can get one of the towers with the QuikPak A4060.

Regards,
Ltstanfo
Moderator-AO

[impactor]

I am interested to see how much these 4000's are up for, inlcuding shipping to the UK.

@ McVenco

Guess all you 'victims' in the failed "Euro-zone" have waited long enough for the Euro to actually be worth anything at all, because along with the rest of the EU rubbish it's pretty much a waste of time.  Oh yeah, and we will never adopt the Euro because we don't want to part of the United States of Europe - so you can keep that ridiculous political token called the Euro :-D

[End of rant]   :madashell:

[mauidj]

Red.
That sounds so awesome.
You are the man  :bow:

If you are making a list please add my name
... right at the top  :-D

Aloha!

[Marcb]

And I had promissed myself the Indivision SD would be my last big purchase... :-)

@Retro71 maybe we can team up and save on shipping?

[ltstanfo]

impactor wrote:
I am interested to see how much these 4000's are up for, inlcuding shipping to the UK.

Impactor... I love your avatar!  I'm so glad to see Zorak here at AO! :bow:

Long live the lone Mantis of the apocolypse!! :-P

Regards,
Ltstanfo
Moderator - AO