18 Oct
2019
18 Oct
'19
8:01 p.m.
This is an Amiga 3000 in excellent condition, both functionally and
physically. Other than the very slight yellowing of the front face and one
barely visible scrape, it is almost perfect.
It is extremely clean inside as well. The on-board battery has not yet been
removed but it should be soon as it has begun to outgas and affect the
surrounding components. I cleaned up the minimal oxidation it had caused on
some of the various components local to it. The capacitors have no visible
age-related issues.
The system boots up into Amiga WorkBench 3.1 and has numerous applications
and drivers installed. Video output is from the GVP EGS (works with SVGA
monitor) board, which plugs into the on-board video port (via external
connector cable).
Photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmxBoNtw
(Despite the marring of the back label, the serial number is readable:
CA1013685.)
Configuration:
16Mhz on-board CPU with Commodore A3640 68040 @ 25 MHz accelerator
2MB Chip RAM
16MB Fast RAM
Great Valley Products L.C. EGS (Rev. 3) 28/24 Spectrum RTG graphics board
w/2MB for 1600?1280?8 interlace, 1152?864?16 interlace, and 800?600?24
non-interlace video modes
Utilities Unlimited Emplant Macintosh emulator board with Macintosh II ROMs
(Apple 342-0105-B, 342-0106-B, 342-0107-B, 342-0108-B)
Conner CFA170S 170MB IDE hard drive
Quantum LPS525S 525MB SCSI2 hard drive
3.5" floppy drive
So many people expressed an interest in this machine that I decided to sell
it by private sealed bid auction.
Between now and Monday, October 21, 8:00PM Pacific Daylight Time, if
interested, please submit your bid to me by e-mail with your bid. I will
confirm your bid by e-mail and notify you if you are the highest bidder, or
otherwise of the final selling price. There is a reserve price of $800.
If you are unfamiliar with a sealed-bid auction, you submit your bid
private to me via e-mail. Your bid is the highest price you are willing to
pay. Whomever has the highest bid by the deadline wins the auction. I will
announce the final sale price to all bidders. The winning bidder has 24
hours to submit payment unless specific arrangements are made otherwise.
Winning bidder pays for shipping via FedEx Ground, shipping from
Sacramento, California. I will ship globally. Local pickup is welcome.
Payment by PayPal using direct funds transfer is required. Other payment
arrangements may be negotiated. My payment policies are explained in full
in my FAQ, located here:
https://tinyurl.com/VWoCW-FAQ
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks, and good luck to all prospective bidders.
Sellam
19 Oct
19 Oct
9:07 a.m.
Sellam,
I am an Amiga expert. If you don't remove the battery asap you are
going to lose this system. I am amazed that it still works but that
isn't going to last much longer. You stated that there was some
corrosion that you cleaned up so it may already too late to save the
motherboard. The acid from the battery will migrate along the copper
traces and there is no way to stop it nor repair it. I would never buy
this system.
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 10/18/2019 10:01 PM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
This is an Amiga 3000 in excellent condition, both
functionally and
physically. Other than the very slight yellowing of the front face and one
barely visible scrape, it is almost perfect.
It is extremely clean inside as well. The on-board battery has not yet been
removed but it should be soon as it has begun to outgas and affect the
surrounding components. I cleaned up the minimal oxidation it had caused on
some of the various components local to it. The capacitors have no visible
age-related issues.
The system boots up into Amiga WorkBench 3.1 and has numerous applications
and drivers installed. Video output is from the GVP EGS (works with SVGA
monitor) board, which plugs into the on-board video port (via external
connector cable).
Photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmxBoNtw
(Despite the marring of the back label, the serial number is readable:
CA1013685.)
Configuration:
16Mhz on-board CPU with Commodore A3640 68040 @ 25 MHz accelerator
2MB Chip RAM
16MB Fast RAM
Great Valley Products L.C. EGS (Rev. 3) 28/24 Spectrum RTG graphics board
w/2MB for 1600?1280?8 interlace, 1152?864?16 interlace, and 800?600?24
non-interlace video modes
Utilities Unlimited Emplant Macintosh emulator board with Macintosh II ROMs
(Apple 342-0105-B, 342-0106-B, 342-0107-B, 342-0108-B)
Conner CFA170S 170MB IDE hard drive
Quantum LPS525S 525MB SCSI2 hard drive
3.5" floppy drive
So many people expressed an interest in this machine that I decided to sell
it by private sealed bid auction.
Between now and Monday, October 21, 8:00PM Pacific Daylight Time, if
interested, please submit your bid to me by e-mail with your bid. I will
confirm your bid by e-mail and notify you if you are the highest bidder, or
otherwise of the final selling price. There is a reserve price of $800.
If you are unfamiliar with a sealed-bid auction, you submit your bid
private to me via e-mail. Your bid is the highest price you are willing to
pay. Whomever has the highest bid by the deadline wins the auction. I will
announce the final sale price to all bidders. The winning bidder has 24
hours to submit payment unless specific arrangements are made otherwise.
Winning bidder pays for shipping via FedEx Ground, shipping from
Sacramento, California. I will ship globally. Local pickup is welcome.
Payment by PayPal using direct funds transfer is required. Other payment
arrangements may be negotiated. My payment policies are explained in full
in my FAQ, located here:
https://tinyurl.com/VWoCW-FAQ
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks, and good luck to all prospective bidders.
Sellam
10:18 a.m.
Sellam,
I am an Amiga expert. If you don't remove the battery asap you are going
to lose this system. I am amazed that it still works but that isn't going to
last much longer. You stated that there was some corrosion that you cleaned
up so it may already too late to save the motherboard. The acid from the
battery will migrate along the copper traces and there is no way to stop it
nor repair it. I would never buy this system.
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
Eh, looking at the pictures the battery damage is very little. It is a
decent candidate for saving. Action needs to be taken quickly but it's in
way better condition than ones I've attempted to work on.
I do see some flaking north in the copper traces of the battery.
I still wonder if osmeone will reproduce Amiga 3000 motherboards where you
can either move over the customs but also has some modern add ons.
As well as a replacement board for the Amiga 600 :-)
At $800 though... not AGA.
--
: Ethan O'Toole
1:07 p.m.
Hey guys.
Thanks for the tip. I opened it yet again and inspected further under a
loupe and sure enough I noticed damage I'd not seen before. I removed the
battery and cleaned up around it some more and mitigated the damage. The
acid seems to have only migrated a few millimeters towards the adjacent
7400 series chips and only slightly affected the ground plane. Here's a
photo:
https://flic.kr/p/2hxjBv3
I ran this system for hours last night and it never hiccupped.
I don't know what "AGA" means. There have been a couple sales on eBay
recently for stock systems without the upgrades this has that both sold for
$800. I sold a stock 25Mhz system earlier this year for $500.
Again, thanks for pointing out the problem with the battery.
Sellam
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:18 AM Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757.org> wrote:
Sellam,
I am an Amiga expert. If you don't remove the battery asap you are
going
to lose this system. I am amazed that it still
works but that isn't
going to
last much longer. You stated that there was some
corrosion that you
cleaned
up so it may already too late to save the
motherboard. The acid from the
battery will migrate along the copper traces and there is no way to stop
it
nor repair it. I would never buy this system.
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
Eh, looking at the pictures the battery damage is very little. It is a
decent candidate for saving. Action needs to be taken quickly but it's in
way better condition than ones I've attempted to work on.
I do see some flaking north in the copper traces of the battery.
I still wonder if osmeone will reproduce Amiga 3000 motherboards where you
can either move over the customs but also has some modern add ons.
As well as a replacement board for the Amiga 600 :-)
At $800 though... not AGA.
--
: Ethan O'Toole
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