It can often be a shock to find some old receipts for the computer hardware you purchased years ago, especially in the Amiga days.

So what can you remember buying back in the day for your Amiga that when you now look back and think about it seems quite a mad price for what it was?

For me I remember buying a high density external floppy drive from Power Computing and paying about £149 for it. I still remember my amazement at finally being able to fit 1.76MB onto a floppy disk! But I did actually need the drive because I had to access the HD floppies I was using for my university course work. Was very useful being able to access PC, Mac and Amiga disks with that drive. Something the PC can't even do today without additional hardware!

But that was nothing. My first HD, a 330MB monster of an external Archos PCMCIA drive for the A1200 cost me over £300. That works out at about £1 per MB!!!

I'm going through my Amiga stuff at the moment to see what I really want to keep, and what I will never use again (Amibay is calling) and I normally kept the receipts in the boxes with the hardware, so if I find any more great purchase prices I will post them.

Anyone else got any mad prices they paid for hardware?
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I remember when Hard drives were going at £1/MB cos i got a 120 MB hd for £120.00. My brand new accellerators cost about as much as they do now on ebay without the SIMMs but 8MB SIMM would cost about £30.00+ and there was no way in hell of getting a 128MB SIMM. God i'm going to have to root through some old mags to see how much i spent on stuff. I know i used to get my hardware from Gordon Harwoods at first and then Power Computing.
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Talking of ram, that just reminded me of the first ram expansion I bought for my A1200. It was a 4MB trapdoor ram card with RTC and it cost £179.99! Ouch! I think that was at the start of 1993. I could buy a new computer for that price now!
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I'd forgotten about my 1220 with 8MB RAM. I think that cost me nearly £200.00 and when i got my 1230 i gave it away to a mate of mine. Should have just spent the money on expensive hookers (it was 1994).
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Never had much money in the Amiga days, so the only expansions I ever got was a 512 MB fast RAM expansion board for the A500 and an external Cumana floppy disk drive. Both cost me an arm and a leg, obviously. Most of the rest of my money went to buying blank floppy disks, hehe.
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512MB for the A500! I bet that did cost an arm and a leg!
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Crap i didn't even have thaty in my first PC 10 years later. And you didn't have a hard drive.
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512 KB!
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I bought my 512kB expansion memory for 7.000 LUF, which is about 115£ which was quite a lot for the late 80s.
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Ouch! That is expensive. I'm trying to remember what my 1MB ram expansion for the A600 cost me, but I can't remember. Might have the receipt in the original box.
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