[geeks] Amiga 2000 acelerator card?

[Mark]

On 29 Apr 2007, at 00:33, Michael Parson wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:15:28PM +0100, Mark wrote:
>> Yeh, sorry. Rule #1 of Amiga hardware - it's usually expensive :o\
>
> Which is why I eventually gave up maintaining my Amiga stuff.  I  
> looked
> at how much I'd spent on it over the previous year and realized I  
> could
> have had one hell of a PC rig, even if it was a PC.

I'd scare myself silly if I totted up the total cost of my Amiga  
rigs. That said it'd have been a lot more without some of the very  
generous donations I've received from members of the UK community.  
The Amiga community is one of those places that you need good friends  
and sources, or you end up with either no kit or no money :o).

They are expensive, full of idiosyncrasies and at times are just  
plain argumentative... and people wondered why they were named after  
the Spanish word for 'girlfriend' - I couldn't think of anything more  
fitting myself ;o)

> I finally kicked that habit and am back on the expensive computers  
> kick.
>
> This time, with Macintosh. ;)

I started out my retro jaunt with old MAcs, but compared to ant Amiga  
the old 68k MAcs make pretty pale comparison, unless you get into the  
big stuff, like the Quadra 950 or 840av, or hot-rodding Mac IIs. You  
wouldn't believe it but that can get almost as expensive as Amiga  
stuff, especially now the upgrade components are starting to get rarer.

Of course I use modern Macs too, and although the initial layout is  
usually fairly large I've found the TCO in my own cases a lot lot  
lower than PCs. Of course if anything my previous Macs had an easy  
life compared to my PCs which all get thrashed to death with gaming.  
That's sorta reversed now I have a Mac Pro.

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