Most expensive, but utterly useless piece of Amiga hardware you bought

[van_dammesque]

For me nothing directly amiga related, but when I towered up my a1200 with accel, hdd, cd-rom etc..I had pondered to do this instead of going the PC route, I planned on getting a colour inkjet printer.
It was an HP one (came with a good review from an issue of amiga format) and it was hardly used and learned quite quickly the BS of 'photo realistic prints' and how the ink didn't last nor was cheap! This thing cost £140 irc. BUT unlike the PC's at the time I had to also stump up £50, yes fifty quid (!!), for turbo print software in order for it to work, grrr.

Costly lesson but probably has saved me in the long run as I only ever had laser printers ever since.

However, not expensive (£7) but certainly UTTERLY USELESS was a FDD fascia plate I bought from eyetech (!?) (ADPT-DF0-FP was its code), its job was to allow you add a face plate and use your amiga's internal floppy in your tower. Now I expected something to match my external floppies that were now towered. Nope it was a piece of sheet metal, with a slot and bent and painted white. Useless, the slot didn't align with the disk drive and didn't even fit into the 3.5 inch bay, if it did it wouldn't clip in as I said it was a plain piece of metal. Sorry for the rant but that really soured my image of eyetech and never bought anything from them again!

EDIT: I knocked this up to show what it looked like, did anyone else see this?


2nd EDIT: and yes it didn't come with a cutout for the button to eject the floppy!

[Thorham]

Originally Posted by stx2199

but in reality it always was and still is a waste of money

Perhaps, but was it useless?

[van_dammesque]

Originally Posted by StevenJGore

Definitely my CD32 FMV card!

Ouch! I recall Star Trek 6 was released and pushed as a great FMV film but the thought of changing CDs midway through the film put me right off the idea!

[malko]

I would say that my biggest "buy" regret was a tower for my A1200.