Why nobody cares about 030 A1200 accelerators

[alenppc]

Good 030 chips are getting really hard to find… I bought 15 recently and only 4 were good. Because of this, the pricing on that batch works out to $132 usd per cpu. Needless to say, because of this my TF1230s are now sold severely under cost (ie if you buy one from me, I’m losing $100 per board). Just saying this to people who complain about price :p

[brostenen]

Good 030 chips are getting really hard to find… I bought 15 recently and only 4 were good. Because of this, the pricing on that batch works out to $132 usd per cpu. Needless to say, because of this my TF1230s are now sold severely under cost (ie if you buy one from me, I’m losing $100 per board). Just saying this to people who complain about price :p

It actually crossed my mind the other day. At some point 030's will be in such a demand versus supply. That the price will go higher.

[stephen_usher]

I must admit that the GVP Jaws II I have in my A1200 does transform the machine. I did find a larger GVP SIMM a couple of years ago which helped too. So I’m not in the market for another board. If I had another A1200 I might be in the market, but they’re so massively expensive that there’s very little chance of that.

Original 030 accelerators are still massively expensive on eBay.

[arkadiusz.makarenko]

50Mhz capable 030 were are already vacuumed by TF536 and TF330

[terriblefire]

Good 030 chips are getting really hard to find… I bought 15 recently and only 4 were good. Because of this, the pricing on that batch works out to $132 usd per cpu. Needless to say, because of this my TF1230s are now sold severely under cost (ie if you buy one from me, I’m losing $100 per board). Just saying this to people who complain about price :p

It actually crossed my mind the other day. At some point 030's will be in such a demand versus supply. That the price will go higher.

Basically this is why i think Software defined processors are the future.

[Danoo]

Well i'm an original hardware aficionado. The idea of putting a pi in my chase hq cab makes me sick... thats a hint at what i'm working on btw.

Yes, this is exactly how I see it as well, having a modern day PI inside defeats the purpose of the term 'Retro computer'. :roll:

Edit:
Am I being a purist? I certainly am :D, but is that not the whole point of collecting old hardware? ;)

[brostenen]

It actually crossed my mind the other day. At some point 030's will be in such a demand versus supply. That the price will go higher.

Basically this is why i think Software defined processors are the future.

Personally I am following the RaspberryPI EMU68 project close. Bare metal programming and it looks like it will always be allowed to only run CPU and Ram. I mean, sound and all other stuff are on the 500 mainboard anyway, so why the PiStorm looks like RTG and all that jazz will be integrated is something that I simply don't understand. There are so many other cheap expansions for the 500 anyway, like CPU-Socket HDD adaptors/ports and Gotek. There are RGBtoHDMI as well. But yeah... I do fully understand and accept that people want everything integrated into PiStorm. And that is why I am more interested in EMU68 instead.

Else we can just fetch us an PI-400 and go fully emulation. But that is not my thing either. Good for a different segment of users though.

[brostenen]

Well i'm an original hardware aficionado. The idea of putting a pi in my chase hq cab makes me sick... thats a hint at what i'm working on btw.

Yes, this is exactly how I see it as well, having a modern day PI inside defeats the purpose of the term 'Retro computer'. :roll:

Edit:
Am I being a purist? I certainly am :D, but is that not the whole point of collecting old hardware? ;)

An Amiga purist in my book is someone who will never use any Amiga hardware that are made after the late 1990's. ;-)