4 Jan
2010
4 Jan
'10
9:35 p.m.
That's true... the Toaster was originally sold as an upgrade to the 2000 (and later
4000). Eventually they licensed the 2000 and rebadged it as a Video Toaster 2000 machine
(with the aforementioned stickers), but certainly wasn't like that when the Toaster
originally came out. Probably a year later or so.
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From: Brian Lanning <brianlanning at gmail.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Mon, January 4, 2010 2:45:14 PM
Subject: Re: desoldering problems and technique (and amiga 2000 mod)
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
The 2000 was a workhorse Amiga, I would expect them to
sell hundreds of
thousands of them (anyone have production numbers?). Were there more then
30K Toaster boards sold?
Quite a few A2000 Toasters on ebay are just generic 2000's that somebody
stuck a Toaster card into because it makes the whole setup worth more. Those
systems are missing the stickers you stuck to the expansion slot to label
all the ports.
If I remember correctly, the toaster was available as a separate
upgrade for the 2000. But NewTek also sold 2000s pre-installed with
toaster. I think those machines are the ones with the stickers on the
front and back, and maybe the color-coded keyboards.
Maybe the toaster board came with those stickers in the box, and
people just didn't put them on. I'm not sure. But my 2000/toaster
came from a video editing company that went out of business. It was
just a 2000 with a toaster in it (as well as a few other things), no
stickers.
brian