9 Jul
1997
9 Jul
'97
4:52 p.m.
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Jason,
Yes, the A500, A1000, and A2000 are still quite useful and still quite
capable of running the newest version of the OS and such even though they are
upwards of 10 years old!
As long as you got the 100+ bucks for the rom and the disks...
The fact that the A2000/A500 is now 10 years old and the A1000 is going on
13 years old doesn't point to it being very likely that the new company will
continue production of spare parts for these machines though. I'd say about
the only machines they are going to continue to support from the Commodore
days are the A4000 and the A1200, which even leaves out my favorite, the
I think what Gateway had in mind was for the Amiga to be sorta like a
"WebTV" type thing. i.e. a bargain computer/box that'd let you "surf
the
web."
A3000. Thankfully, it's still quite easy to pick
up replacement chips for
almost any of the Amiga's from companies such as 'Software Hut' or
'Paxtron'.
In fact, Paxtron seems to still be on the lookout to buy just about any A2000
out there.
And subsequently charge you an arma and a leg when they sell it back to
you. Software Hut sells some of their "new" Amigas for more than they
cost when they came out years ago!
Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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Amiga enthusiast and collector of early, classic microcomputers
Don't get me wrong, I like my Commodore's just as much as the next guy.
But when I go to a plac and they want to chrge me $99 for a 60 meg IDE
drive then I have to think twice... Amiga stuff costs too damn much and
you really don't get much from them in return.