ereidell@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Evan A. Reidell) (05/04/90)
I supposed I'll be flamed for posting this advertisement, but I thought everyone should know about this. You can buy an Amiga for $100. And have a complete Amiga system for less than $300. The Memory Location, which is the Boston Area's best Amiga dealer, has lots of good, used Amiga 1000s for sale. They're from the trade-ins and so they will be resold without a keyboard but for only $100 you get a 512K Amiga 1000 CPU and disk drive, a mouse and a power cable. It will run most Amiga programs, *and* the good old stuff that worked with Kickstart 1.1. Also, with $130 for an A2000 keyboard and $60 for a monochrome composite monitor, you'll have a fully operational Amiga system. It's not supported by Commodore anymore, and 2.0 will never run on it, but almost everything else will and I think that's a hell of a deal for the money. The address of The Memory Location is 396 Washington Street, Wellesley MA 02181. Their phone number is (617) 237-6846. I think they will ship UPS to you, but you'll have to pay the charges. Hope this information helps someone. - Evan A. Reidell (ereidell@media-lab.media.mit.edu)
noel@uokmax.uucp (Bamf) (05/05/90)
In article <2327@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ereidell@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Evan A. Reidell) writes: >You can buy an Amiga for $100. >And have a complete Amiga system for less than $300. [ deleted stuff ] >It will run most Amiga programs, *and* the good old stuff that worked >with Kickstart 1.1. Also, with $130 for an A2000 keyboard and $60 for a The A2000 uses a round (9pin?) plug-in connector for the keyboard, the A1K uses a phone jack type plug in. Last I checked they were totally incompatible. Noel -- /* Dis'claimer, dat'claimer to look | noel@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu [129.15.20.2] at 'em, you'd never know the diff. | ----You want it should sing too?---- */ "Those crocodile tears, ain't tears of pain, look a little closer, thats acid rain." - EJ
a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant) (05/05/90)
> rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu writes: > > Msg-ID: <809@swan.ulowell.edu> > Posted: 6 May 90 01:40:19 GMT > > Org. : University of Lowell, CS Dept > Person: Robert Silvers > > >>It will run most Amiga programs, *and* the good old stuff that worked > >>with Kickstart 1.1. Also, with $130 for an A2000 keyboard and $60 for a > > > The A2000 uses a round (9pin?) plug-in connector for the keyboard, > the > > A1K uses a phone jack type plug in. Last I checked they were > > totally incompatible. > > There is an adaptor availiable for $40.00 that makes them work > together. Does an a2000 keyboard really cost $130.00? > > --Rob. Good Grief (said Charlie Brown) $40.00????? I know I guy here in Vancouver who makes them and sells them for $10.00(Can) which works out to about $8.50 or so in US bucks. Considering that the parts are less than $3.00 and it takes about 4-5 minutes to build one BY HAND, $40.00(US) leaves a lot of room for profit. Sounds to me like whoever is selling this item down there is just a bit greedy. -Ron Tarrant
rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers) (05/06/90)
>>It will run most Amiga programs, *and* the good old stuff that worked >>with Kickstart 1.1. Also, with $130 for an A2000 keyboard and $60 for a > The A2000 uses a round (9pin?) plug-in connector for the keyboard, the > A1K uses a phone jack type plug in. Last I checked they were > totally incompatible. There is an adaptor availiable for $40.00 that makes them work together. Does an a2000 keyboard really cost $130.00? --Rob.
greg@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) (05/06/90)
In article <809@swan.ulowell.edu> rsilvers@hawk.ulowell.edu (Robert Silvers) writes: > There is an adaptor availiable for $40.00 that makes them work >together. Does an a2000 keyboard really cost $130.00? Yes, something like that, but they're worth it. Good PC keyboards cost around $100 minimum. "Anything less would be uncivilized." > --Rob. ...greg harp (boycott the shift key)
xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng) (05/07/90)
In article <1680@mindlink.UUCP>, a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant) writes... ^ ^Good Grief (said Charlie Brown) $40.00????? I know I guy here in Vancouver who ^makes them and sells them for $10.00(Can) which works out to about $8.50 or so ^in US bucks. Considering that the parts are less than $3.00 and it takes about ^4-5 minutes to build one BY HAND, $40.00(US) leaves a lot of room for profit. ^Sounds to me like whoever is selling this item down there is just a bit greedy. ^-Ron Tarrant The place that is selling the A1000 is also selling the widget for $20. Not a great price...but it gets you a working machine that much faster. NT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // | Nigel Tzeng - STX Inc - NASA/GSFC COBE Project \X/ | xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov | Amiga | Standard Disclaimer Applies: The opinions expressed are my own.