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- From: goaway@frii.com (Steve Schmidt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
- Subject: What's it worth? Loaded 500
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 16:40:59 +0000
- Organization: NUN
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <AD427B1B966814A84@fc-1.ppp.frii.com>
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- I have an Amiga 500 with Supra one meg trap door expansion. It also has a
- GVP A530 with a 40 mHz 030 (EC) 2 megs of RAM and a 120 meg hard drive
- (SCSI).
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- It also has an external disk drive, 2.0 ROM, 2.04 system software.
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- The monitor is a 1084.
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- I have about 100 disks of software including:
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- ProWrite (3.0?)
- DeluxePaint III
- Lemmings
- +- 5 commercial games
- 80-100 PD games
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- Here's the story. I'll try and keep it short.
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- I purchased this to play with for a short time and sell it again. I am a
- Mac user and have always liked the Amiga. This was my chance to play with a
- usable Amiga, to see if I liked it as much as my Mac.
-
- I brought it home, hooked it up and played with it for about 10 minutes. My
- 12 year old son then took over. To make a long story shorter....The
- expansion box has a fan (I didn't know that). Imagine my surprise when the
- fan suddenly came on....Wow, a fan that turns on and off based on heat.
- Imagine my surprise when the computer locked up.:-(
-
- Anyway, thanks to you guys (generic term ;-), sex is not an issue) on the
- internet I was able to find GVP service. Duc faxed me that it will cost
- $150 to get repaired.
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- I will either send it in and get repaired or sell it to someone and they
- can send it in.
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- The reason that I'm not sure if I want to send it in is.....well when I
- played with it for those 10 minutes it was fast. It made my Mac IIci feel
- like a rock. If I get it back fixed, I'm going top want to try it out and
- well...a...I really didn't intend on keeping it. It's just soooo fast
- compared to....
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- Anyway, if you kind folks would again help me out.
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- How much is it worth repaired?
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- What's it worth in need of repair?
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- If someone buys it as is they will have to pay the shipping to Duc. The
- $150 cost to repair includes return postage. Repairs include a 30 day
- guarantee.
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- Thanks for your help,again.
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- Steve
- goaway@slip.net
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