Subj : Re: Price Piece in your c
To   : ACMEBBS
From : vorlon
Date : Sun May 22 2022 10:24:32

Hi Acmebbs,

-=> vorlon wrote to ACMEBBS <=-
 
 vo> I'm watching a auction right now, and it's at a reasonable

 vo> $500 AUD, with 7 days to go. Will be intresting to see if the
 vo> price skyrockets...
 
 AC> That's is just crazy watching how the prices go crazy the last
 AC> couple of hours of many auctions.

Yeah.. You think your going to get the item, with 1minute or 30s left and
someone else comes in bumps the price up really high.....

 
 vo> The Amiga 3000, has a jumpter to choose what standard to use.
 vo> If you want to connect a C= display (1084 etc), then that
 vo> jumper is required. If you connect via the 15Pin vga
 vo> scandoubler port then not so much.
 
 AC> This is the 1st time I've come across this. Remember back in the
 AC> day drooling on some of the other models I couldn't afford at that
 AC> time.

Oh, yeah. I did as well. I saw one of the early developer machines, that
required the softkick setup. I knew I'd get one one day, it just took
untill sometime after 2006 for it to happen.
 
 

 AC> Heard someone on You Tube talking about the difference between the
 AC> current machines and "real" machines. With none of the
 AC> capacitors/Varta batteries & such on the Commodore machines...they
 AC> mentioned you could p/u the mini's years from today not not face

Those issues are easy to get past. It's the machines that get left in
storage that suffer. That then makes the working machines left smaller,
and pushes the price up even more.

If my soldering skill was higher, I'd get a couple of the re-production
mb's that have been produced and build one.

 
 AC> Personally...the times when I had the real 500 were lousy (bad
 AC> marriage)...but loved it because of the joy it gave me. Would love
 AC> a real 500/500+ or such...but with the prices & issues they have
 AC> because of the age/parts they used...the mini's are what I wished

A lot of electronics from that period have these issues, it was called
"The great capacitor plauge"

"The capacitor plague was a problem related to a higher-than-expected
failure rate of non-solid aluminium electrolytic capacitor's, between
1999 and 2007, especially those from some Taiwanese manufacturers,
due to faulty electrolyte composition that caused corrosion accompanied
by gas generation, often rupturing the case of the capacitor from the
build-up of pressure."


 
 AC> the real ones were like. Even expect eventually to have 3D printed
 AC> cases with real keyboards like what I mentioned about my MiSTer
 AC> setup. 

I've got a MiSTer as well, but not done much with it yet. Just installed
the Amiga stuff, installed 3.2.1 and got RTG video mode going. Then other
things came up.




\/orlon



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