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In article <AD91CB88-B85A0@153.37.71.47>,
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?

Are you kidding?

You could buy a new A2000 (if you can find one) for that money.  A long
while back Creative Computers was selling (dumping?) *new* 25MHz A3000s
with 100MB hard drives and a few MB of RAM for $400.00!

I would say things have changed quite a bit since the A2000.  For example,
my A4000 has a 40MHz 68040 (WarpEngine), 32-bit data paths throughout
(except for the video card which is 64-bit), 32-bit Zorro-III slots, FAST
SCSI-II, 22MB RAM, the custom chips run at 25MHz (instead of 7MHz for an
A2000).  With my A2386 Bridgeboard and the PC slots too (nothing different
from the A2000), I can use/do just about anything.

For software, with ShapeShifter I can emulate a Mac Quadra faster than a
real Mac.  I can run any PC program that will work with a 75MHz 486.  I
run NetBSD Unix and Amiga OS 3.1 mainly, but just about any piece of
software I can find... I can use it - no problem.

How many PC systems do you suppose can run Amiga OS, Mac System 7.5, and
Windows 95 simultaneously - at native system speeds???  Mine does it
quite easily.

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