have a unit with toaster but we need a keyboard. it sets flat not a
tower. Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (
http://www.smecc.org) fills history in 2
areas we cover - computers and video production
In a message dated 10/4/2016 9:58:46 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
nf6x at
nf6x.net writes:
Congratulations on rescuing the 2000! I wanted one pretty badly when I was
working in an Amiga dealership in the late 1980s, but had a 1000. I still
don't have a 2000, but I've scratched that itch with a 3000 that I got a
couple years ago. I still have my old 1000, but haven't powered it up for a
very long time. It's overdue for a cleaning-up and resurrection.
On Oct 4, 2016, at 21:32, TeoZ <teoz at
neo.rr.com> wrote:
Anyway the XT and 286 Bridgeboards are not that expensive but anything
faster
sure is.
The Bridgeboards were indeed an odd kludge. I don't remember if we
actually sold any in the store I worked in, but I think we had at least one
installed in an Amiga 2000 for demo purposes.
I quit looking for Bridgeboards over a year ago when eBay and I started
seeing other people, but at the time I had little luck finding any. I
wouldn't mind having any working Bridgeboard to try out in my Amiga 3000 just for
kicks, but I wouldn't expect it to be of much practical use. So if there's
a hidden source of cheap XT and 286 Bridgeboards out there, I might like to
acquire one. Devin would get first dibs on any that turn up, of course.
I do have something vaguely Bridgeboard-esque: I have one of the SunPCi
cards in my Sun Ultra 60. I think I set up DOS and NT virtual disks for it,
but I haven't found any practical use for it. It's just a neat example of
the wacky things that were kludged together for folks such as engineers who
needed a UNIX workstation for their main job, but also needed access to a PC
for things like Word. Now that I think of it, I haven't exactly found a
practical use for the Sun it's installed in, either. :)
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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