14 Oct
2010
14 Oct
'10
1:52 p.m.
Well, it's good to know that the machine is something moderately
interesting, anyway. Seemed it from the quick research I did. Hopefully it
goes to someone who'll find it useful; with this talk about the thing, I
have to resist thoughts along the lines of 'I should have kept it and done
xyz with it.' I did have both an A500 and A2000 back when they were
current, but for some reason the platform hasn't held so much interest for
me down the years. I think that it may have been just too capable; the
limitations of earlier (and sometimes later) systems seem to make them more
interesting somehow. Strange.
Mike
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:04:00 -0400, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
wrote:
Over here, we had The Rejuvinator -
http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/rejuvenator
I brought a couple of Amiga 1000s to VCFmw - one with a Spirit Inboard
(memory and RTC), the other with a Rejuvinator and a Microbotics
Starboard (memory) and Stardrive (SCSI and RTC). Unfortunately, it's
been a while since I powered up an A1000 and the best I got was a Guru
screen on one of them (no Kickstart prompt on the one, no Workbench on
the other).
In terms of features, an A1000 motherboard+Rejuvnator was like a
Phoenix (ECS chipset, more CHIP RAM, Kickstart in ROM...) but it was a
bit ugly to install vs a total mobo replacement. I've never seen a
Phoenix over here, but since the Rejuvinator designer lived in Dayton
(90 minutes away from me) I did see plenty of Rejuvinators in Ohio.
-ethan