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Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« on: April 14, 2017, 04:00:23 PM »
Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for pickup

Amiga 2000 , last booted 4 or 5 years ago

Hear are the specs as best I can remember :

3.0 ROMs
68040@40mHz / 28mb RAM
GVP Spectrum II Graphics Card
Flicker fixer / scan doubler
DKB Rapid Fire SCSI Card

Keyboard is missing some keys.

Commode 1940 monitor

I am moving across the country and have to find a new home for it.
 

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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2017, 04:06:57 PM »
Hey ill be in neworleans in the start of the month if nobody gets it by then i can come pick it up! Very cool of you
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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2017, 04:14:32 PM »
Are you aware of how much you could get for such a system?
Its a generous offer, and one I'd be interested in if it wasn't for the fact I'm in Australia, but bare in mind you'd easily get $500+ for it.
Given the number of people who just hoard, and don't really even use retro machines, along with the number of opportunists who will resell whatever they can get their hands on at a much inflated price I'd be more inclined to put it on eBay or similar (amibay perhaps?).
Might be worth looking into those who offer to take it off your hands just to make sure they're not the sort of person who will look to simply take advantage and try to profit.

That being said, its your gear and you can of course do with it as you please :)

I'd just hate to see someone who simply wants to profiteer from your generous offer.
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2017, 04:18:17 PM »
Quote from: BrA2000;824528
Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for pickup

Amiga 2000 , last booted 4 or 5 years ago

Hear are the specs as best I can remember :

3.0 ROMs
68040@40mHz / 28mb RAM
GVP Spectrum II Graphics Card
Flicker fixer / scan doubler
DKB Rapid Fire SCSI Card

Keyboard is missing some keys.

Commode 1940 monitor

I am moving across the country and have to find a new home for it.


WOW, I SO wish I lived in Louisiana.
You do know this would sell whole or in parts for quite a bit of cash, right?
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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2017, 04:46:15 PM »
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WOW, I SO wish I lived in Louisiana.
You do know this would sell whole or in parts for quite a bit of cash, right?


Yes, I am aware.  

However, some folks were generous to me over the years and gave me some hardware for free or at little cost so I am passing that on.

Second, I really need to get it out of the way and I am not sure if it even boots, it is still piled in a closet right now.
 

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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2017, 04:55:21 PM »
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Yes, I am aware.  

However, some folks were generous to me over the years and gave me some hardware for free or at little cost so I am passing that on.

Second, I really need to get it out of the way and I am not sure if it even boots, it is still piled in a closet right now.


Very awesome of you to do this. Magnetic has been trying very hard to get a good working 2000 for awhile now and has been cursed to death with bad units. He is a very deserving guy for this machine and would take amazing care of it. Not only that he would use the thing daily for actual video work.
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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2017, 04:56:55 PM »
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Very awesome of you to do this. Magnetic has been trying very hard to get a good working 2000 for awhile now and has been cursed to death with bad units. He is a very deserving guy for this machine and would take amazing care of it. Not only that he would use the thing daily for actual video work.


Good to know, Magnetic will have first dibs then, I hope it still works.
 

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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2017, 04:59:50 PM »
Quote from: Acill;824536
Very awesome of you to do this. Magnetic has been trying very hard to get a good working 2000 for awhile now and has been cursed to death with bad units. He is a very deserving guy for this machine and would take amazing care of it. Not only that he would use the thing daily for actual video work.


Thanks Acill thats nice of you.. Acill has unfortunately listened to me crying about lack of a working big box amiga lol
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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2017, 05:00:23 PM »
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Good to know, Magnetic will have first dibs then, I hope it still works.


Thanks man! Ill be in NOLA soon and ill come first thing to the red stick to get it! :) Ill even buy you dinner!
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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2017, 05:06:13 PM »
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Thanks man! Ill be in NOLA soon and ill come first thing to the red stick to get it! :) Ill even buy you dinner!


Awesome, see you in a couple weeks.
 

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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2017, 05:45:39 PM »
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Good to know, Magnetic will have first dibs then, I hope it still works.


Cool, I'm familiar with Mag too.
If you're intent of giving back to the community....

Well, he'd be a good person to let have it.
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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2017, 08:39:40 PM »
@ BrA2000 and magnetic

way to go guys that's the Amiga spirit still alive and well in 2017:hammer:

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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2017, 08:59:18 PM »
Well this turned out rather well.
 

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« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2017, 09:42:31 PM »
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magnetic, don't forget to post pics here!

+1 :hammer:


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Re: Amiga 2000 - free to a good home
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2017, 10:06:49 PM »
Awesome!