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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:36:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   "I should buy an amiga" is the retrotech version of "I should buy a boat"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:41:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The funny thing is that I've tried to buy an amiga before. I talked to someone on craigslist about buying one and I had the money and everything, and they were like "Meet me at the Foobar Coffee on RoadName at 7"
     I was there at 7pm. They weren't. I emailed them, and they said they meant 7am, and they'd already sold it in the meantime

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:46:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

     @gsuberland that's the thing. the prices have shot WAY up and it seems to be at the age where all amigas are either "broken" or "repaired", much like laserdiscs the era of "just still works" is barely there anymore

   • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:46:50 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @foone still super mad that my A500 died many years ago. I'd love to play around with one again but the prices are just silly.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:47:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

     @gsuberland so it's expensive to get into, and you need lots of repairs, which are expensive in time and/or money

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:48:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and I have plenty of those already

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:48:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     but everything I've heard from Amiga Owners these days is that it seems like an infinite pit of money & time you have to pour repairs into

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:49:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm only looking into getting an amiga as part of a distraction from what I'm supposed to be working on now

   • Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:55:08 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾

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     @foone "I s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ will buy an amiga" 😀

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:55:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Gammitin (Ben) 💾

     @Gammitin NO

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:57:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Nanoraptor

     @NanoRaptor I AM VERY UNEMPLOYED I CANNOT AFFORD EVEN A SINGLE AMIGA

   • Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 08:57:59 JST Nanoraptor

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     @foone The good thing is there were only a few models, so you'd only need to buy one or two. maybe a 1000 and 1000 with phoenix board, an A2000 - and some spares for it, maybe a 2500HD for the badge, and one to put a sidecar on, an A3000 - oh and an A3000/UX just for the badging, and of course get into broadcast stuff so an A4000 and rackmount 3000/4000 - and towers of each of those. Oh and the consoles! A 600 1200 1200Escom and 500. May as well get a 1500 while you're there, and some of the...

   • LilyBryght (lilybryght@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:44:13 JST LilyBryght

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     @foone I'm from the "I should buy an ST" camp.

     😃

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 13:44:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • LilyBryght

     @lilybryght I've got like, two? neither work, one has an incomplete attempted upgrade on it by someone previous owner. my roommate just bought one but can't hook it up to anything yet because it's a PAL machine and she needs a different scaler.