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Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 11:32:34
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Is there any sites that have records of what Amiga hardware cost back in the day. _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 12:35:28
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 13:40:44
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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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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 13:50:53
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Just wondered how much a basic 8mb Expansion card for A1200 was. NO FPU or CPU Just ram _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 14:44:32
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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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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 16:03:55
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 16:05:09
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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. _________________ "Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard, be evil." |
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 18:24:43
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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 _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 25-May-2018 23:24:00
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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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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 26-May-2018 10:23:06
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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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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 26-May-2018 16:34:01
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Both the 600 and 1200 were introduced at £399 in the UK. |
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 26-May-2018 17:57:05
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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 _________________ Amigaone X5000/20 4GB Radeon RX 550 Polaris 12 AmigaOS4.1 Final Edition Update 1 Amiga 1200 Workbench 3.1.4 Amiga CD32 |
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 26-May-2018 22:07:00
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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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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 27-May-2018 2:41:30
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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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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 27-May-2018 2:44:55
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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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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 1-Jun-2018 2:48:11
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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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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 1-Jun-2018 15:16:39
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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. Last edited by bison on 01-Jun-2018 at 03:17 PM.
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 1-Jun-2018 21:57:58
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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 _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 1-Jun-2018 22:01:34
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There was also the fire in the factory in Japan about '93 iirc.
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Re: Original prices back in the day Posted on 1-Jun-2018 22:12:37
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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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