SpectriaForce wrote:brostenen wrote:harddrivespin wrote:Amiga... Keep that! They're nigh impossible to find for good prices save thrift shops or dumps.
Expensive?? True that... So far, I have spend some 320 US Dollars on my A600. And that is the machine it self, not counting in external drives, mouse and other stuff. It's the unit it self, making it run stock configuration. I bought it, and had to upgrade the kickrom, and it needed a complete recapped systemboard as well. For me to even have such a machine, then I had to sell off one K6-2 500 machine and a P-II-400 machine. Plus one of my AWE64-Gold's.
Yes.... They are not cheap at all.
Lol I remember spending € 100 on a replacement motherboard without battery acid damage for my A2000, somewhere in 2004/2005. Then I wanted to upgrade it with a hard disk controller and turbo card (which I did) but never got it working right (too complicated for me at the time). Glad I eventually got rid of that money pit 10 years ago. Amiga's only break down all the time. I don't like Workbench either, feels too outdated compared to Windows 3.x and very unintuitive. If I want to play a 16-bit game I rather use a SNES, pc or Atari ST. No Amiga for me. I will never understand why people pay big €€€ for them.
I can only speak for my self, when I say that Amiga are dear and close to my heart. If it was not for the fact that Amiga's are rooted deep in me, I would never have bought that 600 I have now. I did however have two 1200's and two 600's back in 2003/05. I sold them back then, because I needed the money. Yeah... They are money pit's, yet when someone has them that deep rooted, it is pure nostalgia. It's like a 70 year old American man, getting that first car he owned, in a fully restored version.
Now... I am not here to smack down on vintage/retro pc's. PC's from 1992 to 1999 are equally deep rooted in me. It's just Commodore machines, that I have a tight love affair with. My C64 are just as important to me, than my Amiga600 are.
Anyway.
Another frustrating part of old computers, are as others have mentioned here, bad/leaking batteries and capacitors. Worn down Floppy drives, dead 5.25 and 3.5 inch Floppy disks. Dying and dead harddrives and finally dying/dead optical drives. Finally it is dead and noisy cooling fan's.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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