Good price for a 1040ST, monitor, and external hard drive?

[SEgamer]

Someone locally is selling a setup with an Atari 1040STFM Computer, SC2224 Color Monitor, and an external hard drive with NEODESK installed for $250. I'm thinking that's pretty high, but I don't know how much an external hard drive is. Any help is appreciated.

[svenski]

Sounds a bit steep to me but working ST external drives sometimes go for silly money. Do you know what drive it is?

[Rybags]

1040 ST/FM - probably 80% of what you see up for sale, machine on it's own anything from $25-$40 or $50 depending on where you live (country).

 

Colour monitor - $30-$40 but again depends where you live. ST and Amiga monitors getting kinda scarce here so you pay the higher end, often more.

 

HDD - very dependant on model. Got a Megafile 30 here and I reckon I'd be lucky to get 50 bucks if I sold it. But for other models you might be anywhere from 30 to over 100 bucks.

 

For such a setup as you mention, take off $70 or so and assume the remainder to be paying for the HDD alone. As such, $180 for that seems way high.

[SEgamer]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to assume it's a megafile hdd since I haven't asked them about it yet. I'll see if they still have it and offer them around $100, mainly because a similar setup without the hard drive went for $51 on ebay. (though the $48 shipping probably had something to do with it). I was just making sure the hard drives weren't over the top expensive.

[Rybags]

There's also a later version (not sure if they called it Megafile) that takes removable HDD type cartridges.

 

I think it might be 120 meg capacity - and no idea what the availability of the media is. I saw one go for pretty good bucks, but it's usability value would be dependant on whether you could easily/cheaply find the cartridges for it.

[svenski]

There's also a later version (not sure if they called it Megafile) that takes removable HDD type cartridges.

 

I think it might be 120 meg capacity - and no idea what the availability of the media is. I saw one go for pretty good bucks, but it's usability value would be dependant on whether you could easily/cheaply find the cartridges for it.

 

The Megafile 44 - uses 44MB SyQuest media. You can also add an internal hard drive to the megafile 44.

[SEgamer]

Here's a pic of the drive he e-mailed me:

 

 

He said he built the drive, and that the company who made the kit is/was ICD. He also added:

 

"I did find the manual on the Hard Drive adapter. It is SCSI based and the SCSI host adapter if for a company called ICD."

 

 

Just wondering if this would add any to the $110 I originally had in mind for the lot. (40 for the comp, 30 for the monitor, 40 for the hdd)

[+poobah]

Here's a pic of the drive he e-mailed me:

 

 

He said he built the drive, and that the company who made the kit is/was ICD. He also added:

 

"I did find the manual on the Hard Drive adapter. It is SCSI based and the SCSI host adapter if for a company called ICD."

 

 

Just wondering if this would add any to the $110 I originally had in mind for the lot. (40 for the comp, 30 for the monitor, 40 for the hdd)

 

Some of the ICD adapters had onboard real time clocks. Might add $20 or so to the value