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- From: lo@kokee.hawaiian.net (Lopaka)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: Amiga 2000? Is it worth it?
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 17:44:52 GMT
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- Bill Vinson (billv@earthlink.net) wrote:
- : I bought an Amiga 2000 around 1988 and it stopped working around 1991 or
- : 92. It has 2 disk drives, but no hard drives. It stopped working and I
- : was ripped off by an authorized repair center. I have since accepted both
- : my Windows machine and my Power Macintosh. Is it worth the cost to repair?
- : Maybe $100 - $300 dollars? How much has changed on the Amiga in the last
- : 5 years?
-
- Copperhead technologies ads A2000 repair $145. 518 346 3894
- BBS 518 346 7532 They also advertise as wanting to purchase
- used Hardware. (New York)
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- Paxtron -- (also New York) says they sell factory new late
- revision A2000 motherboards for $279.00
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- Whats changed? Quite a bit, a New OS's Internet software,
- accelerators. For instance I believe a stock A2000 does
- around .6 MIPS. Mine does 9 MIPS, you can get a '060 to
- do around 42 MIPS. A gfx card is an eloquent solution to
- not having AGA :)
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