Restarting Old Amiga's

[Jules Richardson]

On 6/10/20 10:32 AM, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>> use that instead - the T model looks a bit too much like a crazy mid-90's 
>> PC for my tastes (although the SCSI's nice).
> 
> The 4000T has IDE! I have one of those CF card to IDE boards on a back 
> expansion slot, allowing it to be removed.

Well, it has IDE *as well*. ;-) Mine's running a SCSI hard disk and CDROM 
drive. It's a 2GB disk with a wide interface, incidentally, then a 
narrow-to-wide adapter affixed to that to allow it to be used in the 
machine - I suppose it's possible it left the factory like that, but far 
more likely that a previous owner upgraded it. I've not been able to find 
anything that tells me what stock 4000T storage options were (although the 
Wikipedia entry for the 4000 desktop claims those just had a 120MB disk)

>> Thoughts on this, incidentally? https://www.ebay.com/itm/254545704933
>> It's just an empty case, not even a complete machine, which claims to 
>> have sold. No PSU, no "middle" drive bay hardware. I wonder if a friend 
>> of the seller "bought" it and it was just a trick to drive up prices or 
>> something - $550 seems ridiculous for an empty box, but I don't "do" ebay 
>> and don't know how crazy people are or what kind of scams go on.
> 
> That is crazy. To buy something to "mark to market" the price real high ... 
> you would still have to pay the crazy eBay fees.

Yeah, it's weird. Mind you I was doing some poking around and A4000 
desktop/tower parts prices seem to generally be insanely high across the 
board.

cheers

Jules