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Harrison

11th September 2007, 10:15

Looking back over your Amiga years what was some of the most expensive hardware you purchased now that you think about it?

For me one that I remember well was a Power Computing external HD Floppy Disk Drive. I needed it so I could read and write disks between home and college/university and it cost me about £140. For a floppy disk drive!

And a 4MB A1200 trap door memory expansion cost me £179.99 and that was on special offer as part of an Amiga Format promotion too.

I will see if I can dig out the receipts for some of the other Amiga Hardware I purchased as I'm sure some of the other prices were equally mad when looking back on them compared with today.

Demon Cleaner

11th September 2007, 11:30

At my C64 beginnings, the blank 5¼ floppy discs from Elephant cost around 12€.

The Commodore 1541 floppy drive was 375€.

My Star NL10 printer was 500€, that was a 9 needles printer (do you call them like that?).

The 0.5MB expansion for the Amiga was 175€.

Harrison

11th September 2007, 11:45

Nearly right. We call them 9-pin printers. My first printer was also a 9-pin Star, but it was the Star LC10 Colour model. Really noisy and took forever to print a page. When the ink ribbons were new it did produce quite good results, but the ribbons did wear out quite quickly.

That 1541 floppy drive was really expensive! Works out at about £255. About the same price I paid for my A4000 (which came with 2 monitors, 8 floppy disk boxes, and tons of other stuff).

toomanymikes

11th September 2007, 11:48

I never really had the money to spend on the Amiga when I first had on as I was still a kid but I do remember getting a 512k expansion for my Christmas at a whopping £100! Ridiculous!

Bloodwych

11th September 2007, 19:26

Never mind looking back - how about what's the most expensive Amiga hardware you can buy now!!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220145591744

£1000 for an A4000T.

Harrison

11th September 2007, 23:02

Wow! You don't see many A4000T's coming up for sale anywhere. It is easily worth that because they are so rare.

BTW, what do you think the standard A4000 is now worth? I'm wondering how much mine is currently worth if I were to sell it. I was thinking the other day that I've only switched it on once in the past year as I tend to use one of my A1200's more.

FOL

11th September 2007, 23:10

Harrison

11th September 2007, 23:12

There is currently another A4000 selling on ebay, included with 2 A1200's and it's currently going for only £102, but I expect that to shoot up.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160155194116

Stephen Coates

14th October 2007, 20:17

Never mind looking back - how about what's the most expensive Amiga hardware you can buy now!!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220145591744

£1000 for an A4000T.

It's in Rotherham!

I could have borrowed it if I'd have known about this earlier!

I think the most expensive hardware I have bought will have been the Blizzard 1230 for £70.

I have seen used AmigaOnes selling for several hundreds of pounds, although I'm pretty sure an A1 G4 sold for £250 on buy it now. I will have to try and find the auction as I'm not sure.

Here it is: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320144621380

The guy who bought it sold his G3 for about £400 earlier.

I am still thinking about getting a PPC, and have some searches saved on ebay. Apparently the AmigaOnes are very fast compared to Blizzards, but I might just get a Blizzard to use with the A1200. I suppose it depends on what I can afford. I can't imagine I would use it for much.

Harrison

14th October 2007, 20:27

That auction seemed like quite a bargain as it included the ram, replaced CPU cooler, graphics card, sound card, OS4 CD and more. I would have bought that had I seen it!

I've been tempted to build a PPC Amiga for some time now, but since hearing about the coldfire project I've been waiting as that is definitely the A1200 tower conversion I would wish to use (if it ever gets finished).

Puni/Void

14th October 2007, 20:37

Harrison wrote:

That auction seemed like quite a bargain as it included the ram, replaced CPU cooler, graphics card, sound card, OS4 CD and more. I would have bought that had I seen it!

I've been tempted to build a PPC Amiga for some time now, but since hearing about the coldfire project I've been waiting as that is definitely the A1200 tower conversion I would wish to use (if it ever gets finished).

I would have been interested as well, as I've been searching for a new Amiga lately. Sadly, those AmigaOne's are very hard to find, and if you are lucky enough to track one down, they are going to cost a small fortune. Still, being able to use an Amiga with OS4, a decent GPU and a fast CPU would be real fun. Guess I wouldn't resort to the PC all the time if I had such a setup. So all in all, I guess it's worth the money.

My other plan would be either an Amiga 4000 with extras or a towered Amiga 1200 with the Dragon Coldfire. There hasn't been much news about the Dragon though, and I really don't know how long I can manage to wait. ;)

Stephen Coates

15th October 2007, 08:27

At least the Amiga Ones can run Linux, which can easily run MaxOS(X) in MOL and Windows in other emulators, so you won't be short of systems to run on an A1.

I quite fancy having a DBOX for a tower conversion, but they are very expensive. I'd much rather spend that money on a graphics card for the A1200 or something.

I don't think I'd get a coldfire. It sounds interesting, but mostsoftware is still for 68k/PPC so it would probably be better getting a 68k or a PPC.