I'm posting because I could use some advice. I got into Amiga computers back in the '80's, and have three. Thirty years later, it's time to get rid of them. No, I'm not advertising them here (as I'm not planning to sell them over the Internet) but I could use some advice how to sell them and what they might bring in.
I've just packaged up (in the original boxes) my original Amiga 1000 computer (including the 1050 RAM expansion) with 1080 monitor, 1010 external 3.5" floppy drive, 1020 external 5.25" floppy drive including the Amiga Transformer. I seem to have lost the box, but not the styrofoam packaging, for my Syquest external 88 MB hard drive with 2 removable disks, so dug out some arbitrary box for that.
This computer boots up with Kickstart and Workbench V1.0, but I'm pretty sure there's a minor problem with the internal 3.5" floppy drive because it doesn't always work properly, so I don't want to push it. (Someone with more hardware know-how than I could probably get it purring). There's a minor problem with the mouse buttons, which don't always register the clicks, and with the RGB connection to the monitor. (The analog connection works fine.) I rather suspect that all the contacts in this old beast should be cleaned, but I don't want to start using spray-type contact cleaner on it, as I'm not sure of possible consequences.
I also have an Amiga 2000 and an Amiga 3000 with some peripherals, but I haven't finished going through those, so as yet I'm not sure exactly what I have.
Now, because it's a little gimpy, I don't really want to overwork the disk drive on the A1000 before someone gets in there to check it out, so this leaves me in a quandary -- I have lots of software, including purchased, and freeware (like Fred Fish disks), but I can't check out whether it functions because I don't want to exercise the disk drive. So if YOU were a potential buyer of this machine, what would you want to know and see about the computer(s) and the software?
I also have a number of old printers -- dot matrix I think. Are those likely saleable? I don't want to bother with them if not.
In all likelihood, I'll just put this hardware and software up for sale as is and let the chips fall where they may, but I'd like to hear from folks who might have opinions on the matter.
As a matter of curiosity, I reviewed the original price list and find I paid about $2800 for the A-1000 and peripherals, less the SyQuest drive and all the software, which translates to about $6500 in 2019 dollars! (No, I'm not planning to ask that for them...) I must have really wanted that computer back then!
-B.