Chuffin Muffin! A2000 super duper bargain buy :D

So when my dads called around to my house the last few times he's been admiring the Commodore corner lol... and suggesting he should probably get one to tinker with.

I started looking out for a cheap big box Amiga for him and happened upon an A2000 just 30 minutes after it had been listed on the other bay. Pictures were not great but I could see from the back there was a card in the CPU Fast slot which looked promising. So being pretty sure it could have leaky battery syndrome and not wanting another A2000 myself as Im happy with mine I sent the guy [SNIP] a cash offer suitable for a bog basic box with a leaky battery and taking into account my costs for a four hour round trip to collect and asked a few hardware questions. He got back to me accepting, he had no more info on the hardware as he just used it for a three month project 22 years ago and its never been touched since.

So I arrive, he's a great bloke and we chat about what he used it for, he just wants rid as he's moving house. He then produces an old invoice for just under five grand and explains he only used it for three months.... "it was bought whilst working on a project for a subcontracted company doing some Lightwave and video stuff for a science fiction TV program". I'm getting quite excited at this point, Lightwave is not really 68000 software! He then says I can have the 17" multisync Samsung he used to test it.

So I get home... open the box and Hooooo leeee moo leeee jeeee ja wowa!! o_0!!!!!

• No leaky battery, motherboard is absolutely mint Rev6
• Picasso II video card
• Toccata 16bit sound card
• Dataflyer ram board with 6mb on-board
• A2300 Genlock
• VLab 7 Microsystems motion card
• SCSI CD Rom
• 15GB Quantum Trailblazer HD
• And a GVP GTECH 040 @ 40mhz with what appears to be 64mb RAM on board!!!

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The whole machine is pristine.... just proper dusty lol, everything works perfectly, all the original disks are present, cd rom is surprisingly quick and the hd is lightening fast. Its suspiciously quiet on the PSU as well compared to mine.

I'm going to swap the bridgeboard into this box and my dads having my old machine lol!!!

Very happy!

great buy its like winning the lottery

but i would snip the battery out

and look after her

damn... if it's the one I think it is... I was going to bid on that!

Congrats tho.

Wow, cool!

Any idea what the sci-fi programme it was used for was? :thumbsup:

Sounds like a good buy. And yes, remove the battery asap. As soon as you power it up, it will very likely start leaking like crazy, so better get rid of it before that happens.

Had a couple of hours cleaning it and removing the battery which thankfully was fully intact.

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Pieced her back together... its tight in there with all six cards

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Fired up first time with no issues... the drive is ridiculously fast, probably because I'm accustomed to the 4000's ide

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Sysinfo and yaaaaahr... the 040's running like a steam train :D

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Sig updated.. dad very sad haha!

Jammy that is all I can say on that one! I would gladly get shot of a few A1200's for something like this.

So please, put me out of my misery and tell me what you paid... pm me if you want and I be tight lipped... but things like this are always out of my reach these days. Back in the old days I would often see one stacked to the gills and would always leave it be in favour of an AGA machine.

Nice find, but please keep price discussions out of it thanks. ;)

That is an awesome setup for a 2000, congrats. Aside from the 1200, the 2000 is my favourite Amiga. There's something curiously satisfying about the solid old beasties.

Shame that you felt the need to discuss the price. You're on the wrong forum for that sort of discussion. However, great system! Like JohnIM said, it's like winning the lottery getting a system like that! (and that's regardless of how much it cost).

If I was the guy that sold it to you, and I stumbled across this post, I'd be devastated that you knew how much it was worth, paid me a price that you consider incredibly cheap and then start singing and dancing about it on the internet. Whereas, if instead you focused on how much you're getting from the machine and how it's being given a new lease of life, that would be an awesome post to discover.

Food for thought

The chap accepted the offer, if he wasn't happy with the offer, he wouldn't have accepted it. Aysel has nothing to be ashamed of. He got lucky, that is all and is rightly pleased with what he got.