9 Jun
2020
9 Jun
'20
4:56 a.m.
On 6/8/20 4:18 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
It's nice to see some other "non mainstream" Amigas out there. My list:
A1000 with 1MB board and 68010
A1000 with 1.5MB board
A2000HD with '030 and Toaster (100MB disk)
A2500 with '030, genlock and '286 coprocessor (100MB disk)
A4000 with '040 and Toaster (2 x 850MB disks)
A4000T with '040, Toaster and timebase corrector / sync generator (2GB disk)
There's also a '286 PC which I believe is just there for its ISA backplane
and is hosting a bunch of video-related cards - that along with the
A2000HD, A4000 and A4000T all came out of a TV production studio. There are
also a few hand-held sync/channel controllers, too, but I don't know what
else I'm missing in order to make everything "do stuff".
The A4000 is, at least for now, beyond hope - it had quite extensive
battery corrosion and wasn't showing signs of life even after going over it
with a loupe and patching PCB traces. Either I missed something, or there's
internal damage to one or more of the ICs. I did swap the A3640 into the
A4000T, so I know that's working and the fault is local to the main logic
board.
Oh, as you have one too, any idea how many A4000Ts were made? I've been
curious about that lately. It seems that Commodore put out around 200, but
I can't find figures/estimates for the Escom-built machines (which mine is).
cheers
Jules
I was very
active in collecting, and on this list at the beginning.? I
also have a couple A1200?s that need work, and I used to have a couple
A2000?s (those went to Eric Smith probably 15-20 years ago).? There is
also a partial A500, unfortunately I think it?s missing the keyboard, IIRC.
Nice! My current Amiga list is an A500, A600 (under repair, I think I'm
going to replace the fat agnus NTSC chip as a shot in the dark), A2500
(68020, 4MB, SD2SCSI, Toaster) and an A4000T (in great condition but I do
need to recap it. Bought all the caps, not thrilled about the work ahead of
me.)