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Have any of you bought a 'new' Amiga? I mean the ones that have been sitting in the original box since day one. How do they stand the test of time?
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My Amiga 500 was bought new in 1989 and I'm using it to type this post. The only thing that has ever gone wrong is a broken floppy eject button.
About 9 years ago I worked in a computer factory doing "repairs" (actually testing & replacing parts) and I got to see the crap quality of the parts. It was unbelievable how defective everything was. After testing and finding a bad drive, I would get a new one, find out that it was defective too, get a new one - another defect! In many cases, new computers had multiple failures. It's hard to isolate a problem when there's a bad motherboard, bad harddrive, bad ports and a screwed up Windows image. (and this is on a brand new computer!) I pitied the people who bought the computers and I vowed never to buy a PC.