A2000 setup - Part out or sell whole

[curtis]

Okay, I've got this A2000 that is just sitting on the shelf collecting dust and I've pretty well convinced myself to go ahead and find it a new home.

However, I've got it pretty well rigged up and am trying to decide whether to sell it as a unit or part it out.

Here's the configuration.

Amiga side of the world.
stock cpu
RAM:  8Mb, but configured to 6 Mb due to a bridgeboard.
IDE controller:  Buddha Flash Phoenix going to a dual TrueIDE CF Flash adapter
WB 2.1 and Work disk are both IBM microdrives 512M each.
A2320 Amber board in the video slot so it's got VGA output.
A kickstart switcher board is installed with 1.3 and 2.1 ROM's.
Motherboard shows to be a REV. 6, but I seem to remember it having a paper sticker claiming to be a 6.2.  Looking at the BBOAH, it looks the same as a 6.2
Battery has been replaced by someone before me!  Coin battery is installed.
I soldered the 16-bit extensions on the PC side of the world, giving full AT class support for all 4 PC slots.

PC side of the house.
Bridgeboard:  CBM 2386 (80386SX with math co-pro and full compliment of ZIP RAM.
8-bit Silicon Valley IDE controller going to a CF adapter and a 340Mb IBM CF microdrive.  DOS 5 is loaded on it.
Parallel card for the DOS side of the house.

Each side of the machine has a dedicated 3.5" floppy drive.

Case is clean with no dents or marks.  Front panel has the 5.25" cover removed so the CF adapters can be seen.  I will include the blank.  All screws are present.

I have added an extra LED for the PC hard drive located to the right of the word "Hard Drive" on the LED panel.

And before some wog chimes in and says it's not worth anything and I should just send it to them, I say:

Yes, you are a wonderful wit and your sense of humor is astounding!  Now run along and play in the traffic while the adults talk.

So, sell it whole or part it out?  Also, any suggestions as to approximate value?  I know it's worth only what 2 people will agree on, but ball park estimates are appreciated.

I will give first consideration to the forum if anyone wants to make a reasonable offer otherwise, you'll see it on ebay.

BTW, I'm located in Amarillo, TX 79109 if you want to guestimate shipping costs.  Shipping weight will be on the order of 30 pounds +/-.

Pictures available upon request.

Curtis McCain

[TheBilgeRat]

I paid 100 bucks for a mostly stock A2000 without all that yumminess.

Most ppl probably would chime in with parting it out, but then I think you'd be left with the comp and nothing else to make it "worthwhile"

So - my vote is keep it whole, ask 250ish for it and let them whine

[save2600]

I agree with the rat... $250-$300 considering the 386 BB already configured and the Amber card... nice!

Good luck!

[amigadave]

Sounds like a nice system for older OCS & ECS Amiga gaming, and for running DOS software.  I would probably move the CF drives so I could install a CD-ROM drive and might want an accelerator on the Amiga side.  After my first Amiga, an A1000 that I heavily expanded, my second Amiga was an A2000 that I expanded with a PicassoII video card, 68030/33MHz and a 386sx Vortex GoldenGate Bridgeboard plus a DKB MegaChip to give it 2mb of Chip RAM.  I also did the solder job to make all 4 ISA slots 16bit like you did.  It was probably the Amiga that I had the most fun with during the last days of Commodore/Amiga.  Great fun running PCDOS/Windows3.11/MacOS7.5.5 along with AmigaOS1.3 & 2.1 with Kickstart switcher.

I hope you can find a buyer that will pay you enough to keep your system all together, instead of parting it out, but the truth is, that you will probably make more money if you part it out.  Join and put an ad on AmiBay instead of, or in addition to eBay and post links to it on all of the Amiga forum sites that you can find.

Good luck,

[curtis]

Well, I had a couple of inquiries regarding the Buddha board and the Bridgeboard and was almost ready to make the deals when I got to thinking about what I'd have left with those gone.

So, I've decided to go ahead and post it on ebay.  Will do up the auction and get it posted this weekend.

I'll post the link when published.

That is, of course, providing no one comes up with a reasonable offer before that.

I do appreciate all the comments and suggestions.

Curtis

[TheBilgeRat]

If I had the dough :lol:

Yeah, it's kinda better to keep it whole - let the A2000 haters deal - ever see how much used boats go for without motors?

[giZmo350]

If you do part it out...  :confused:, I'd be interested in all the IBM side of things! Is the CPU on the BB socketed so that it can be upgraded to a 486?

[AmigaPixel]

What a nice set up! You are probably right in selling whole but if you did part it out I would be intrested in the 2320 Amber card. I have never soldered on the Amiga except for re soldering the composite jack on the 1080 monitor, where would I find instructions on soldering the 16bit extensions for the ISA slots? I am curious as to what Kickstart switcher you have? I had a switcher in my A2000 made by IVS if recall correctly.

[esc]

I'd also be very interested in the Buddha...  

[TheBilgeRat]

See?  here they come!  Like piranhas....circling....

[Motormouth]

If you do part it out...  :confused:, I'd be interested in all the IBM side of things! Is the CPU on the BB socketed so that it can be upgraded to a 486?

The 386 on the BB are sx and soldered, but a couple companies made a 486 slc upgrade that can be mounted on the 386sx and "take over".  The 387 is socketed.  
The 486 slc is not like a full 486DX however.  
If I remember the 486 slc is basically a 386sx with 486 instruction set and not the other architectural optimizations .  The 486 slc do come in clocks at high as 100mhz.  If my memory serves I think a company made a revto486 which was a x2 50 mhz slc and evergreen made one that was x3 75 mhz of the bus.  Both were compatible with the 2386sx.  I have the evergreen 75 mhz 486slc on my 2386sx.  
Either way the the bus was still only 25mhz and the math co-processor on the BB "if it has one" is still only 25 mhz.  The integer performance is great out of these things, but  don't expect overall system performance to dramatically increase.

It is kind of like putting a 68030 on an amiga 500 with out any 32bit ram.

[J-Golden]

See? here they come! Like piranhas....circling....

 
I'm more like a Baracudda.  I zip through fast and takes what I want!!!:lol:

[psxphill]

The 486 slc is not like a full 486DX however.
If I remember the 486 slc is basically a 386sx with 486 instruction set and not the other architectural optimizations

As it's a cyric chip and not an intel one, the architecture is going to be different.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix_Cx486SLC
 
I wouldn't bother risking damage to the board for the amount of speed increase you'll get. It's more of a collectors piece & should be kept as close to original condition as possible.
 
I'd love to see someone build a modern bridgeboard though. You'd want to have a graphics chip on there as well, but you could rtg to it using similar tech to the siamese system.