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Over on Amiga.org, Redrumloa has managed to somehow discover a cache of brand new Amiga 500's quantity in the double digits. Story
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Posted by Amigan on 07-Jun-2003 07:40 GMT
So The new Amigas have to be sold like this old A500s, with his amiga keyboard, his software bundle, his manuals, all the sutff. Not only a bare mother board sealed :((((
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Posted by Hagge on 07-Jun-2003 08:03 GMT
Finally new amigas!!!

to the world: we told you so!


:/ ...
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Posted by krize on 07-Jun-2003 08:40 GMT
Haha finally the new amiga is here :)))


LOL , great post :)
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Posted by hooligan/dcs on 07-Jun-2003 08:46 GMT
The logo looks nice :)
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Posted by Anonymous on 07-Jun-2003 11:07 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (hooligan/dcs):
Why in the hell would anyone want a load of old A500s anyway?

maybe if you empty the boxes you could give them to homeless midgets to live in.
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Posted by Peter Gordon on 07-Jun-2003 11:19 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Anonymous):
Because they're cool?
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Posted by Anonymous on 07-Jun-2003 12:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Peter Gordon):
A500s aren't cool...they're crap! ;-)
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Posted by T_Bone on 07-Jun-2003 13:37 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Anonymous):
> Why in the hell would anyone want a load of old A500s anyway?

These are *NEW* A500's.
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Posted by Felix on 07-Jun-2003 13:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Anonymous):
No they aren't crap, there cool!:))
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Posted by Anonymous on 07-Jun-2003 14:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (T_Bone):
Not all of them are "NEW", some are refurbished.

Still think they're crap.
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Posted by Fabian J. on 07-Jun-2003 14:29 GMT
Maybe you can convince NASA to buy them from you. Tell them they are really rare and sell them for $200 a piece.
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Posted by Peter Gordon on 07-Jun-2003 15:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Anonymous):
Why are they crap? They're a real classic machine. I have one in my collection ( http://www.old-computers.com/club/collectors/ordis.asp?c=232 ), but its all beaten up, and only works when it wants to.

I'd love to get hold of a couple of unused ones :)
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Posted by greenboy on 07-Jun-2003 16:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Peter Gordon):
Sold quite a few 500s in the day, though I concentrated on pro and semi-pro clients who bought big-box Amigas and stuffed them with cards. Lots of people thought A500 was more transportable for video or music or whatever but the A500s were always having connector problems which a twist of the case (and circuit board would often correct. Then later, the customer would slightly tension the case diagonally and it'd need re-tweaking.

Never did like that form factor as much as a result ... and then therr was that clunky outboard power supply to add to the octopus fray for anybody who hooked much up. The big boxes were much cleaner for expansion and semi-portable use.
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Posted by Peter Gordon on 07-Jun-2003 19:13 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (greenboy):
Sure the big boxes are better for professional use; but its the wedgies that made Amiga popular. If it wasn't for the 500, the Amiga wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful as it was.
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Posted by Anonymous on 07-Jun-2003 20:11 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Peter Gordon):
They were cool once..many years ago, now they're just plain old crap, useless lumps of plastic and silicon.

Must've got them for free, can't see anyone actaully paying to own one anymore.
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Posted by Peter Gordon on 07-Jun-2003 21:14 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Anonymous):
I think its sad that you cannot see worth in something simply because it is not state of the art. Maybe when you grow up, you will see things differently.
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Posted by Anonymous on 08-Jun-2003 04:27 GMT
In reply to Comment 16 (Peter Gordon):
I'm not being sad the person thats sad is the one who purchased these A500s.

What possible use could someone have for these is what I'm asking, how is that sad? I'm just realistic! They're obsolete, plain and simple.

Peter, buying one or two at most for setimental value is fine, but buying a load in the double digit region IE 10-99 is plain silly far as I can see.

I can only think that he will try to sell them on to collectors to make a little profit. I'd expect them to be splattered all over Ebay shortly.
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Posted by greenboy on 08-Jun-2003 11:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Peter Gordon):
True, Peter, the wedgies sold in bigger numbers. As a dealer I would know that ; } ...The price gap between the boxes and the wedgies gave many of us the feeling that CBM was into extortion. You could have a too-easy-to-flex version with some odd expansion caveats and a big line-lump power supply that was a PITA, or you could pay up the whazzoo for something that expanded in a cleaner fashion and could take major road abuse (but also weighed a ton).

Man, did we want something like other portables of the day!
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Posted by Anonymous on 08-Jun-2003 11:30 GMT
In reply to Comment 17 (Anonymous):
> I can only think that he will try to sell them on to collectors to make a
>little profit. I'd expect them to be splattered all over Ebay shortly.

And if he did, would there be anything wrong with that? Besides, have you ever heard of a concept called investment? What do you think ONE Amiga500 brand new in the box would be worth to a collector in say, 20 years?
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Posted by cybereye on 09-Jun-2003 07:08 GMT
hey Redrumloa, I'm wonder what your wife says all about this amiga 500 in the bed room. Don't tell me your going to keep it all to yourself. I hope I see you next weekend and I'm sure going to hear all the story about your finding whereabout.
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Posted by redrumloa on 09-Jun-2003 09:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 20 (cybereye):
hehe hey CyberEye, I've been trying to get a hold of you! Who says they are still in the bedroom? They are in "an undisclosed location" ;-)

Stop by after work one night if you can CE, as long as you get off early. I've got something to talk to you about. I'll email you now but you often ignore your email(smack).
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Posted by Anonymous on 09-Jun-2003 10:13 GMT
oh no!, where is my Delorian?. BRRR!!! Come back to the present day!. Give me now this car!. Muhahaha.

Congratulations guy!.
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Posted by cybereye on 10-Jun-2003 01:53 GMT
In reply to Comment 21 (redrumloa):
Oh I got your email before I went to work. But after work, I came to your house. You were sleeping. I'll see you again after work, but If I'm not at your house around 9:20 pm then you can go to bed then.
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