Do you have your original receipt/docket/invoice??
 

I found mine amongst all the Amiga stuff.

My mother spent an absolute fortune on this, at the time she was a single parent too and I managed to convince her I wanted to "do computer stuff". All these years later I actually work in IT so I reckon even though it was a con from me it actually paid off all these years later. :)

Oh receipts!

Here's mine, this is from 1991. Really puts the price in perspective. To give you an idea, I have included the price of an All in One HP machine today at a large Australian retailer.

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I still have the receipt for my A3000T from when I bought it new, along with all the manuals, and shipping cartons :D I understand !

Huge thanks to your mom for starting your I.T. career!

Looks like the price of the Amiga itself was close to the £399 UK price give or take.

Dont forget the printer, but of course printers these days are pretty much free. It's the ink that costs a fortune :D

heh, back them the ink was still killer - the Star NX1000 had those 4 color ribbons so you had to replace the whole thing, also nearly impossible to refill.

Probably - I have all receipts what I have bought for my hobbies. The most "valuable" is perhaps the Phase 5 Cyberstorm NG system that never existed. Luckily it was just a pre-order... Well, an A500 tower with Blizzard 2060 + 128 MB and HDD did cost a leg and arm...

HOLY SHIT! It was a COLOUR dot matrix?

FK I didn't get one of those till....well heck I remember getting one but I'm thinking it was during my PC era

We had nice clunky black and white Dot matrix with the Amiga from memory, and continued to use the same one when my Brother purchased an Amstrad Notepad (look that one up ;) which I eventually somehow took ownership of, and my first 386 DX PC too lol.

COLOUR!

Man, Australia. The land of plenty :P

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Here's mine. A bit hard to read, contrast is not great between the paper and old ink.

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Looks like it was a worthwhile investment since it started your passion for IT. I got a box where I keep the receipts for all the electronic devices my parents got me when I was a kid. It’s a somewhat interesting exercise to compare prices for tech now and then. At the same time, these receipts hold deep nostalgic value for me. It's incredible how things change over time. I keep the old checks in a box and do my current ones via ThePayStubs - progress in a nutshell!

I wish I had kept all my receipts for nostalgia purposes....all I have is some of the Amiga Shopper magazines that I ordered things from....

I think my shopping list for kit in the Amiga days was, roughly in order:

Amiga 500
Competition Pro joystick
.5MB Trapdoor RAM
External Disk Drive
Stereo Master Sound Sampler
4MB Supra RAM
GVP 52Mb Hard Drive + 4MB
120Mb Hard Drive for above
Imagine 2
Vista Pro
Vidi Amiga 12 Digitiser
Microvitec 14" Multisync Monitor
Microbotics VXL-30 accelerator
2Mb 32-bit RAM module to go with above
Analogue Joystick
ProPage 2
Canon BJ10 printer
Datel Mono Hand Scanner
Amiga 1200
60Mb HD
Blizzard 1230 with 4Mb (or possibly 8Mb)
80Mb HD
120Mb HD


Plus games and a ton of PD disks most weeks...

All sold by 1994.

Here's the invoice for my first Amiga system, an A1000 and 1084 monitor purchased in 1987.

It was stolen in 1991. I kept the invoice because it has the serial numbers, so if it ever surfaces I have proof of ownership.

Sadly I have nothing relating to stuff that I was given for christmas as a child!

But I seem to have acquired secondhand stuff from people that originally owned Amigas from new. Everything from basic A500's, disk drives etc right up to the big-box amigas.

The best is an Amiga 4000D. I have loads of receipts for professional software and hardware. The owner was involved in TV and media production. He went to town with that lot and bought everything in sight. Sadly I did not acquire everything hardware related but pretty much most of it.

The second one that stands out is an A1500. The owner bought everything! all documented, receipts the lot.

I need to fish the lot out and scan it.