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Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« on: October 03, 2007, 04:23:33 PM »
Got a  free Amiga 4000. Just have to pick it up. Owner says it's a complete system, with books, and tons of software...can't wait.. part of me says pick it up tonght!!!!
A4K: \\\'060, Cyberstorm MKIII Cybervision 64/3D w/ Scandoubler, Buddha Flash XSurf, MP3@64, A4K: \\\'040, Toaster, Y/C, A1200: Apollo \\\'040, A1200 GVP \'030, A1200: Stock, A2000: 68K, Trump SCSI, Supra 8Mb, and Toaster 4K, A2500: \\\'030, GVP SCSI, Supra 8MB x2, Video Toaster, CD32, Minimig, Efika and Hopefully an A4000T soon!
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2007, 04:26:50 PM »
Holy cow... quick run out and buy a lottery ticket too, it must be one heck of a lucky day.

Any chance you'd share how you got such a good deal?
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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2007, 04:34:04 PM »
I just asked! That's the coolest part... just scour your local magazines and place ads in the free ones.. thats all I did.. and they were most happy for me to come and get it......amazing.
A4K: \\\'060, Cyberstorm MKIII Cybervision 64/3D w/ Scandoubler, Buddha Flash XSurf, MP3@64, A4K: \\\'040, Toaster, Y/C, A1200: Apollo \\\'040, A1200 GVP \'030, A1200: Stock, A2000: 68K, Trump SCSI, Supra 8Mb, and Toaster 4K, A2500: \\\'030, GVP SCSI, Supra 8MB x2, Video Toaster, CD32, Minimig, Efika and Hopefully an A4000T soon!
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2007, 04:34:47 PM »
oh man, almost sounds too easy. I assumed it involved your soul and some sort of deal with the devil ;-)
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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2007, 04:39:27 PM »
WTF?
You lucky sob. What you going to do with it?
Check what's in it as well, you never know it may have some tasty expansions in there.
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2007, 04:42:05 PM »
Just keep looking everyday.. most free circulations have a website now.. at least here in California.. I look 3 or 4 times a day! Got a free 2000,  and now a 4000. Plus a guy was giving away a carload (i kid you not, i barely had room to drive my car) full of Amiga software, books and hardware.. :)
A4K: \\\'060, Cyberstorm MKIII Cybervision 64/3D w/ Scandoubler, Buddha Flash XSurf, MP3@64, A4K: \\\'040, Toaster, Y/C, A1200: Apollo \\\'040, A1200 GVP \'030, A1200: Stock, A2000: 68K, Trump SCSI, Supra 8Mb, and Toaster 4K, A2500: \\\'030, GVP SCSI, Supra 8MB x2, Video Toaster, CD32, Minimig, Efika and Hopefully an A4000T soon!
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2007, 04:56:01 PM »
You are the luckiest person I know!

A400's (especially the rare A400T) have been going for $1000-$2000 on Ebay recently.

Wish I had an A4000 (especially an A4000T in my eyes the best Amiga ever)
Escom A1200, Power Tower, OS3.9 & BB2, HD-Floppy drive, Mediator PCI, Voodoo 3 3000 16MB, Soundblaster 4.1, TV Tuner Card, 10/100MBit Ethernet card, Apollo 68060 66MHz with 64MB, 9.5Gig HD and 52xCDRom

Also one spare unworking bare A1200
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2007, 05:24:23 PM »
I got 1 free 1200 with a mass of fully boxed thought after games plus a nother 1200 9now sold) for £1 with loads of joysticks and floppys. was offerd 2 500's and 1 600 for free with an apsolute mass of disks but I had to give the guy £10 for his troubles. :) Good ey? Still not a 4000. :(
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2007, 05:31:12 PM »
Yea!!! I forgot how much i've paid for my Amigas..I got an A1200 for £10 including a box of floppies and some boxed software... the best deal i've ever had was a Power Tower A1200...$350USD and it had:

Blizzard PowerpC
Blizzvision
Repulse
1.76MB Floppy
Squirrel SCSI
ZiV Busboard..


Man that was the most fun I had until the turbo cards started to die off in it... :-?
A4K: \\\'060, Cyberstorm MKIII Cybervision 64/3D w/ Scandoubler, Buddha Flash XSurf, MP3@64, A4K: \\\'040, Toaster, Y/C, A1200: Apollo \\\'040, A1200 GVP \'030, A1200: Stock, A2000: 68K, Trump SCSI, Supra 8Mb, and Toaster 4K, A2500: \\\'030, GVP SCSI, Supra 8MB x2, Video Toaster, CD32, Minimig, Efika and Hopefully an A4000T soon!
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2007, 05:47:32 PM »
Congratulations ! ! ! :pint:

I saw advert in my local paper for an A1200. But when I got there it was actually a boxed bog standard A1500 running at a whopping 7Mhz. I glady handed over the £10 for it and boxes and boxes of stuff. I'll have to get it out of the loft and have a play with it some time :-)

Another time I saw an A2000 adverstised for £40. To my amazement when I got there it was an 030 on 3.1 ROMS and had a Picasso II  in it. This was my first ever graphics card and I've had the Picasso II running in my main A4000 ever since  8-)
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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2007, 05:48:54 PM »
@pan1k

Damn you must be lucky! the best luck i had was a free A1200 (standard ks 3.0 )

The worst luck i had 2 days ago, i was looking for Z IV board (PSU fried my old one) some guy had one brand new, never used and he wanted 175,- Euro for it, that was including Fast ATA controller....,
Amiga is addictive coz it is fun to use

A1200 Elbox power tower, BPPC 040/25+603e 240 Mhz, 128 MB RAM,Bvision,Zorro IV&Zorro IV PCI busboard,X-surf,Buddha IDE
A4000 Elbox power tower,CSPPC 060/60+604e 233Mhz, 128 MB RAM,CvisonPPC, AriadneII
A600+Vampire V2,A604N+RTC,SUM USB keyboard controller,Topolino with logitech wireless keyboard&mouse
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #11 on: October 03, 2007, 05:56:18 PM »
You can get the a lot cheaper than that! I think I paid 40 euros for mine!

(If you've not already bought it) Contact amigakit and ask if they have any in stock which don't show on their website. They sometimes have things like that, it's always worth asking :)

Although the FastATA controller is quite nice.. was gunna buy one of them for myself in a few months for my 1200ZIV monster machine.. (Already had a Mediator ZIV in it)
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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #12 on: October 03, 2007, 06:46:20 PM »
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Got a  free Amiga 4000. Just have to pick it up. Owner says it's a complete system, with books, and tons of software...can't wait.. part of me says pick it up tonght!!!!


You're a lucky SOB, haha! Congrats!  :-D
 

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #13 on: October 03, 2007, 06:46:31 PM »
@BinoX

Did not buy it, way over the top, i was willing to pay something like 75,- euro or a bit more maybe.

But thx i'll contact Amigakit never hurts to try indeed.
Amiga is addictive coz it is fun to use

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Re: Wow! Free Amiga 4000! It must be my lucky day!
« Reply #14 on: October 03, 2007, 07:07:34 PM »
Man I want free Amiga stuff  :-D