11 September 2007, 14:43 | #1 |
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Most expensive, but utterly useless piece of Amiga hardware you bought
Kinda following on from the thread about extra ram, cpus etc.
List the piece of Amiga equipment you baught that you thought offered the least value for money, basically you baught something and no software took advantage of it or something. My A570 - total lack of availible software, sure there was them PD CDs, but being a kid back then I found it hard to mail order CDs that were £20-£30 from the mags. So for me that drive was useless and it cost a god dam bomb too. |
11 September 2007, 14:47 | #2 |
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An official Amiga mouse
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11 September 2007, 14:54 | #3 |
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An Amiga Walker. Paid a fortune for it! Finally binned it last month.
A 68881 co processor board A colour Handy Scanner - bad unstable software and too damn RAM hungry |
11 September 2007, 14:54 | #4 |
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my A2000T
LOL , really I don't know what came over me! I even got for it a gvp030/40+16MB accelerator and a picassoII.... it turned out for me a total waste of money, I have it here on a corner in my office... |
11 September 2007, 15:30 | #5 |
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My A4000T which had a Cyberstorm MKII '060, Picasso IV, Toccata audio card, Ariadne NIC, 2 crappy 2 gig scsi drives and a dead scsi cd-rom
But it was a steal if you value the parts |
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Around that time I went over to PCs, so I never really followed it. I had enough of being ripped off, and PCs were finally getting to a level of affordability to match some kind of use which for the same money I could not get out of my Amiga. |
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11 September 2007, 15:42 | #7 |
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Nah I lied about the Walker, just wanted to see if Keropi would flame me for it!
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11 September 2007, 18:30 | #11 |
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you can never have enough flame! or gravy, can't remember which...
btw, why flame for a walker? I am no collector, it has no interested for me LOL as for turning the A2000 in a pc... maybe you did not notice the T next to it... it is in a full-height tower that wheights ~40kg. not like the cheap A3000's u talk about, we talk German steel here! |
11 September 2007, 19:05 | #12 |
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You got me!!!! I didn't see the T. I thought it was one of those standard A1500 boxes we've got over here in the UK.
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11 September 2007, 19:14 | #13 |
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A1500 + GVP Impact Series II
I wanted a HD8+ GVP Impact Series II for my A500 I talked my dad into driving us from Preston to Leeds (140 miles there and back) to First Computer Centre who was selling them cheap, collection only. When we got there they were out of stock, despite me having rung and reserved one before we set off! I was pissed, and didnt want to go home empty handed. The sales guy managed to pursuade me to buy an A1500 (which he would heavily discount) + Zorro II version of Impact Series II. He convinced me that if I could get XXX amount for my second hand A500 in MicroMart then the cost was about the same as an A500 HD8+ and I would be getting a big box Amiga for free! I was young and impressionable and did the deal £600+ I remember. I never did get enough from the sale of my A500 and what should have been a sub £200 hard drive became a very expensive lemon. Last edited by alexh; 11 September 2007 at 21:12. Reason: Corrected name of the shop |
11 September 2007, 20:10 | #14 |
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Amiga Technologies mouse - total carp
Think that's it. Have a long hard think before I buy stuff! I almost bought an A570 myself but there's just nothing really of use for them Last edited by Paul_s; 11 September 2007 at 20:43. |
11 September 2007, 21:01 | #15 |
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hmmm worst "ponders" .... yepo.... got one....
When i bought my first 3.5" Hard disk 1.1GB of hugeness it was!!!! fecking enormous.... 1993 ish..... Quantum Fireball.... Cost me £135.00 .... for 1GB..... it still bites..... yeah okay... most PC's were still being sold with 512MB and 1GB drives at the time.... but..... 135 quid.... what was i thinking |
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the wizzard 3 button mouse, made my fingers ache .
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11 September 2007, 22:38 | #17 |
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Damn I near spent £200 on my A1200s 80mb 2.5" HDD !!!!!!!
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11 September 2007, 23:27 | #20 |
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I got my A1200 the first week of release and pestered my dad for an HDD the next!
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