11 Jan
1998
11 Jan
'98
3:05 a.m.
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 adam(a)merlin.net.au wrote:
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I picked up an
Amigo computer today from a thrift store. Now, this is
something cool as I have never seen one before and it is an interesting
design for its time.
I have something called an Amigo, made (although the name is hard to
read) by Surwave. Mind you, it could well be a Surwave made by Amigo. :)
It also has the z80 and the 6502 on the mother board, but it is not an
all-in-one unit. Indeed, it looks a bit like the Aplle ][. I have done
Anyway, I imagine that your computer is another model
by the same people
- try an Apple boot disk and see what happens. :)
Adam, what you are describing is of course an Apple clone. What I've got
here is a straight CP/M machine.
Thanks to Hans Pufal's Comprehensive Computer Catalogue
(http://www.digiweb.com/~hansp/ccc) I've tracked down the date of
manufacture as November 1982. And I forgot to mention the name of the
manufacturer was on the motherboard (as well as on Hans' page). It's
Ontel. I actually got two motherboards with this. One is a revision A
and the other (the one actually installed) is revision F. This is cool
because I have a stash of spare parts I guess.
Still can't get it to boot but I guess I'll put it away with the others
until my sabbatical.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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