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g01df1sh 
Original prices back in the day
Posted on 25-May-2018 11:32:34
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Hi

Is there any sites that have records of what Amiga hardware cost back in the day.

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Re: Original prices back in the day
Posted on 25-May-2018 12:35:28
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Your best bet are probably ads from old scanned Amiga mags and then an online inflation calculator.

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Re: Original prices back in the day
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@g01df1sh

I still have some magazines from 1987 till.. oh dear.. 2000. I could have a look for you if you are not in a hurry.. :)

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Hi

Just wondered how much a basic 8mb Expansion card for A1200 was. NO FPU or CPU Just ram

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Just wondered how much a basic 8mb Expansion card for A1200 was. NO FPU or CPU Just ram


Year? RAM was expensive in the early 90s. Eg. in July 1995 basic 4 MB RAM card for A1200 cost 6490 CZK (that is cca 250 USD with then exchange rate).

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I paid the equivalent of 150€ for an A501 in 88

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@pavlor

I remember the local news doing a bit about people breaking in to offices, classrooms, etc. and just stealing all the SIMMs out of computers.
Made a lot of sense to thieves at the time: small, valuable, easy to hide and sell on.

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Yes we had a whole load of ram stolen from pC's in the offices where I used to work. Did it why the security officers where down stairs LOL

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@g01df1sh

By March 2000, Analogic were selling A1200 8MB cards for £39.95. For an extra £20 you could have got a 40Mhz 1230 card from either Analogic, Eyetech or Power Computing. Eyetech were even including an FPU and 4MB simm in that £59.95 price tag.

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@g01df1sh


Amiga 500 was around £399 for the majority of its lifespan in the UK.

The Amiga 1200 was released at £299 and then went up £100.00 when Escom took it over
The CD32 was around £300 when released

Big box Amigas A1500-3000 were not cheap either at around the £1500-2000 mark. I've got a shot of what the A4000 used to cost on my blog from Silica. Again it wasn't cheap especially when you consider back in the 90's wages were a lot lot lower and there was a lot less disposable income.

https://amigax5000.blog/2017/09/15/the-x5000-vs-upgrading-your-classic-machine/




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Both the 600 and 1200 were introduced at £399 in the UK.

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So they were 😉. Although I am right they were quickly reduced and I remember the annoyance that Escom had increased the price of the machine when they took over things

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Hi#

I did well to get £70 for a basic 8mb card then. Cant see PC hardware doing that LOL its out of date the day you buy it and worth sod all a few years down the line...

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Posted on 27-May-2018 2:41:30
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@g01df1sh

Absolutely impossible to answer.

What do you define as "back in the day"?

RAM prices alone dropped about %90 over the course of a few years.
The a500 was introduced at 399 pounds, but lived at 299 for most of its lifespan and ended up dropping even further. A600 was introduced at 299, but was 199, and then 99 a relatively short space of time later.
An 8MB RAM card, when 1st introduced was more expensive than the budget '030 cards ended up a few years later.

Your question is no different than the old, "how log is a piece of string"

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The thing you've omitted there though is retro vs. new.

You can indeed get decent money for retro pc gear.

Tried buying a Voodoo card lately?

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@g01df1sh

RAM prices fluctuated a lot in the past. We went through a serious shortage around 1988 for example. There were essentially no RAM to be found. I was lucky in that I had a friend who had hoarded a bunch of RAM chips a year or so before.

So I called a supplier to buy a memory card (Spirit inboard) for my A500 and got the message, -Yes you can have that board empty, as there are no memory chips. -No problem I replied, I have enough chips for it. -What!? Can I please buy some chips from you???

It was desperate times...

So I guess prices "back in the days" went up and down quite significantly. You really need to find a particular target and look at ads at the time.

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Yeah, I remember all that. A friend of mine paid $500 for a 1MB expansion board for his A1000 (one of those boards that plug into the CPU socket) back in the late 80s.

I think about that every time I build a new system. My current system has 32GB, for no real reason other than I probably have this subconscious idea that RAM is scarce and I should get all that I can.

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Dont go there I had a Voodoo5 in my first PC and later on gave it to a mate and then it just ended up in his shed to rot. :( could of used it in my mediator

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@hth313

There was also the fire in the factory in Japan about '93 iirc.

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@g01df1sh

I bought my first Amiga 500 in 1988 for $999 the RGB Analog 1084 was $450! Later I upgraded to the fat Agnus for $100 and Commodore sent a technician right to my house who showed me how to open up and upgrade the ROM to 2.04 at the time. Later I added a Supra 40 Mb Hd with 2 Mb of RAM for $750. The GVP expansion to '030/50 with 40 Mb HD cost $1250 in 1994. I remember 32 Mb RAM sticks sold for $1000. Creative Computers ads were full of prices. I'll see if I can pull some. I have a complete collection of Amiga World with 2 copies of issue no. 1

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