8 Jun
2020
8 Jun
'20
1:02 p.m.
I have the urge to get my Amiga?s back up and running. I?m still trying to find my main
Amiga A3000, but have found my A500 and my A600. The problem is, I don?t remember the
last time I powered these on. It?s been a long time since I?ve had time. In the case of
the A3000, I think it?s been about 17 years. My Atari TT030 has been even longer. :-(
Any advice about powering them up?
Of course another fun challenge will be to figure out where on earth all my Amiga floppies
are.
Zane
8 Jun
8 Jun
1:24 p.m.
I have the urge to get my Amiga?s back up and running.
I?m still trying
to find my main Amiga A3000, but have found my A500 and my A600. The
problem is, I don?t remember the last time I powered these on. It?s
been a long time since I?ve had time. In the case of the A3000, I think
it?s been about 17 years. My Atari TT030 has been even longer. :-(
Nice collection!
Sooooo now for the bad news.
On the Amiga A501 trap door memory expansion, there is a battery for the
time clock that will leak. It can damage the memory board. Also, the off
gassing of it can cause corrosion in the main computer as well.
the Amiga 600 has surface mount capacitors that will leak and eat the main
board. The machine will smell kinda funny, like fish or something. You
will want to pull it apart and investigate it. The caps are in the upper
left, upper right and middle for the most part. Have one on my bench I've
been trying to fix for a while and it's been tough. I advice recapping
before powering it on. And the cap job takes some work since it's all
surface mount and the solder is funky from the electrolyte corrosion.
the Amiga 3000 suffers from a battery leak issue as well. Take it apart,
clip out the battery on the mainboard. It's under the drives if I recall.
Check the damage around the area. Look online for neutralizing it all on
this and the A500. There are replacement mainboards that have been
produced if you're adventurous and your board is no good anymore from
extreme damage. You have to solder everything on and move over parts.
There are some killer upgrades for the A500 that give it ~40mhz, 8MB of
RAM and hard drive via SD or CF cards. These upgrades might run $150-$200,
not bad compared to the flash cards that cost $120 for many systems or
say, the CF disk only for the Apple II @ $120ish.
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: Ethan O'Toole
1:58 p.m.
On Jun 8, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Ethan O'Toole
<ethan at 757.org> wrote:
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.
I have the urge to get my Amiga?s back up and
running. I?m still trying to find my main Amiga A3000, but have found my A500 and my
A600. The problem is, I don?t remember the last time I powered these on. It?s been a
long time since I?ve had time. In the case of the A3000, I think it?s been about 17
years. My Atari TT030 has been even longer. :-(
Nice collection! Sooooo now for the bad news.
On the Amiga A501 trap door memory expansion, there is a battery for the time clock that
will leak. It can damage the memory board. Also, the off gassing of it can cause corrosion
in the main computer as well.
The memory expansion was purchased new, around ?98. I just removed it and checked it, and
it looks fine.
the Amiga 600 has surface mount capacitors that will
leak and eat the main board. The machine will smell kinda funny, like fish or something.
You will want to pull it apart and investigate it. The caps are in the upper left, upper
right and middle for the most part. Have one on my bench I've been trying to fix for a
while and it's been tough. I advice recapping before powering it on. And the cap job
takes some work since it's all surface mount and the solder is funky from the
electrolyte corrosion.
Sounds like this belongs in the same category as my two A1200?s, namely needing some
serious surface mount work. I know the one A1200 has an issue with a chip that overheats.
One strange thing about the A600, it?s already half apart, I?m not sure why, as it worked
just fine when I got it, and I?ve never gotten around to figuring out how to put it back
together. I?ll give it a smell later today. :-)
the Amiga 3000 suffers from a battery leak issue as
well. Take it apart, clip out the battery on the mainboard. It's under the drives if I
recall. Check the damage around the area. Look online for neutralizing it all on this and
the A500. There are replacement mainboards that have been produced if you're
adventurous and your board is no good anymore from extreme damage. You have to solder
everything on and move over parts.
There are some killer upgrades for the A500 that give it ~40mhz, 8MB of RAM and hard
drive via SD or CF cards. These upgrades might run $150-$200, not bad compared to the
flash cards that cost $120 for many systems or say, the CF disk only for the Apple II @
$120ish.
I?ve been aware of the A3000 battery issue, I believe that I resolved this on the original
in the late 90?s. Pulling my spare A3000 out of the box, and checking it has been on my
todo list for a long time. :-( My main A3000 has been nicely upgraded, and was even
running AmigaOS 3.9, the last time I was using it. It?s one of two reasons I still have a
10Base-2 network segment (the other is my DECserver). For a few years, this was one of my
main systems.
About 5 years ago, I picked up a Gotek floppy replacement system, with the intention of
putting it into the A500.
Zane
2:18 p.m.
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.)
The memory expansion was purchased new, around ?98. I
just removed it
and checked it, and it looks fine.
Ah cool! Good!
Sounds like this belongs in the same category as my
two A1200?s, namely
needing some serious surface mount work. I know the one A1200 has an
issue with a chip that overheats. One strange thing about the A600,
it?s already half apart, I?m not sure why, as it worked just fine when I
got it, and I?ve never gotten around to figuring out how to put it back
together. I?ll give it a smell later today. :-)
Yep, same issue. Does the overheating chip A1200 run? There are
replacement motherboards for that but I don't think they pre-populate them
with all the common parts unfortunately. That would be cool if they did.
The A600 might of been apart for adding in a 44 pin IDE to CF card or
something? That is an option that makes the A600 awesome.
I?ve been aware of the A3000 battery issue, I believe
that I resolved
this on the original in the late 90?s. Pulling my spare A3000 out of
the box, and checking it has been on my todo list for a long time. :-(
My main A3000 has been nicely upgraded, and was even running AmigaOS
3.9, the last time I was using it. It?s one of two reasons I still have
a 10Base-2 network segment (the other is my DECserver). For a few
years, this was one of my main systems.
Spare A3000 :-) If the batteries are removed from both you should be in a
good position.
About 5 years ago, I picked up a Gotek floppy
replacement system, with
the intention of putting it into the A500.
Yea I have one of those with the community firmware and OLED screen in an
external enclosure for Atari ST Mega 2 with bad internal floppy. They are
useful and cheap.
- Ethan
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: Ethan O'Toole
9 Jun
9 Jun
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.) 
7:54 a.m.
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).
I've got a QuikPak A4000T with the '060 accelerator. Pretty sweet.
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11:13 a.m.
On Jun 9, 2020, at 7:54 AM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
It feels like there are quite a few A4000T?s out there. Most people that are really into
the Amiga seem to have one. I?d really like to get one, but they?ve always been $$$?s.
Same with the A4000 itself. For me the A1200 would make more sense at this point.
Zane
Oh, as you have one too, any idea how many
A4000Ts were made? I've been
curious about that lately. It seems that Commodore put out around 200, but
I can't find figures/estimates for the Escom-built machines (which mine is).
I've got a QuikPak A4000T with the '060 accelerator. Pretty sweet.
11:19 a.m.
It feels like there are quite a few A4000T?s out
there. Most people
that are really into the Amiga seem to have one. I?d really like to get
one, but they?ve always been $$$?s. Same with the A4000 itself. For me
the A1200 would make more sense at this point.
My friend found the deal on the A4000Ts which includes mine. They weren't
really cheap, and it was 3 in one deal surrounded by a ton of unknowns.
All the manuals for the other things like the 060 accelerator and stuff --
the hardware wasn't with the systems. Ours have the slow CPU cards and the
A4000T cases look like cheap PCs and are crazy large and empty, and the IO
card on the back with the SCSI ribbons just seems poorly designed.
- Ethan
2:03 p.m.
On 6/9/20 1:19 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
My friend found the deal on the A4000Ts which includes
mine. They weren't
really cheap, and it was 3 in one deal surrounded by a ton of unknowns. All
the manuals for the other things like the 060 accelerator and stuff -- the
hardware wasn't with the systems. Ours have the slow CPU cards and the
A4000T cases look like cheap PCs and are crazy large and empty, and the IO
card on the back with the SCSI ribbons just seems poorly designed.
Yup. Mine's like that, too. Just an '040, and a case that seems far too big
for what's inside. If my "regular" 4000 was working I'd almost be
inclined
to use that instead - the T model looks a bit too much like a crazy
mid-90's PC for my tastes (although the SCSI's nice).
Thoughts on this, incidentally? https://www.ebay.com/itm/254545704933
It's just an empty case, not even a complete machine, which claims to have
sold. No PSU, no "middle" drive bay hardware. I wonder if a friend of the
seller "bought" it and it was just a trick to drive up prices or something
- $550 seems ridiculous for an empty box, but I don't "do" ebay and
don't
know how crazy people are or what kind of scams go on.
cheers
Jules
10 Jun
10 Jun
8:32 a.m.
use that instead - the T model looks a bit too much
like a crazy mid-90's PC
for my tastes (although the SCSI's nice).
The 4000T has IDE! I have one of those CF card to IDE boards on a back
expansion slot, allowing it to be removed.
Thoughts on this, incidentally?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254545704933
It's just an empty case, not even a complete machine, which claims to have
sold. No PSU, no "middle" drive bay hardware. I wonder if a friend of the
seller "bought" it and it was just a trick to drive up prices or something -
$550 seems ridiculous for an empty box, but I don't "do" ebay and don't
know
how crazy people are or what kind of scams go on.
That is crazy. To buy something to "mark to market" the price real high
... you would still have to pay the crazy eBay fees.
There was a late model Adlib card in original box (not sealed) that went
for $3900 that had people scratching their head. But who knows. I think a
Nintendo game went for $300K. Some people have way more money than I for
this hobby that's for sure :-) Pinball machines / arcades are the same.
- Ethan
3:10 p.m.
On 6/10/20 10:32 AM, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
Well, it has IDE *as well*. ;-) Mine's running a SCSI hard disk and CDROM
drive. It's a 2GB disk with a wide interface, incidentally, then a
narrow-to-wide adapter affixed to that to allow it to be used in the
machine - I suppose it's possible it left the factory like that, but far
more likely that a previous owner upgraded it. I've not been able to find
anything that tells me what stock 4000T storage options were (although the
Wikipedia entry for the 4000 desktop claims those just had a 120MB disk)
Yeah, it's weird. Mind you I was doing some poking around and A4000
desktop/tower parts prices seem to generally be insanely high across the
board.
cheers
Jules
use that
instead - the T model looks a bit too much like a crazy mid-90's
PC for my tastes (although the SCSI's nice).
The 4000T has IDE! I have one of those CF card to IDE boards on a back
expansion slot, allowing it to be removed. Thoughts on
this, incidentally? https://www.ebay.com/itm/254545704933
It's just an empty case, not even a complete machine, which claims to
have sold. No PSU, no "middle" drive bay hardware. I wonder if a friend
of the seller "bought" it and it was just a trick to drive up prices or
something - $550 seems ridiculous for an empty box, but I don't "do" ebay
and don't know how crazy people are or what kind of scams go on.
That is crazy. To buy something to "mark to market" the price real high ...
you would still have to pay the crazy eBay fees. 
26 Jun
26 Jun
12:53 p.m.
On 6/10/20 5:10 PM, Jules Richardson via cctech wrote:
There are a bunch of new-production Amiga motherboard PCBs available
now, and they all require the original Amiga custom chips. Individual
IC prices are higher than I've ever seen them and they're suddenly very
scarce.
Even dead-dead-dead and stripped A3000 and A4000 boards are suddenly
valuable for the slot hardware
That's also why empty cases are going so high.
ObBragALittle: I just got my "Floppy209" Rev6.2 A2000 PCB this week,
and I am stoked. I have an old 2000 that looks like it was stored on
its side (the wrong side) when the battery went. All the logic is good,
except the CPU, but several of the card connectors are rotted
underneath. This PCB is a gift from the universe!
ObWifeQuote: Just looks like 4 square feet of expensive holes.
Doc
That is crazy. To buy something to "mark to market" the price real
high ... you would still have to pay the crazy eBay fees.
Yeah, it's weird. Mind you I was doing some poking around and A4000
desktop/tower parts prices seem to generally be insanely high across the
board.
2:42 p.m.
On Jun 26, 2020, at 12:53 PM, Doc Shipley via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Even dead-dead-dead and stripped A3000 and A4000 boards are suddenly valuable for the
slot hardware
That's also why empty cases are going so high.
ObBragALittle: I just got my "Floppy209" Rev6.2 A2000 PCB this week, and I am
stoked. I have an old 2000 that looks like it was stored on its side (the wrong side)
when the battery went. All the logic is good, except the CPU, but several of the card
connectors are rotted underneath. This PCB is a gift from the universe!
ObWifeQuote: Just looks like 4 square feet of expensive holes.
Fed-Ex was supposed to be delivering my parts from Wales today, I doubt that?s happening.
Even if I don?t get them, I?m planning to do the tear-down on my two A3000?s this weekend,
due to the weather forecast. The batteries don?t look that bad, I?m hoping the underside
is okay.
I?ve been having fun with the A1200, and can?t wait to get the parts to add CF-to-IDE
adapters to it and the A600. I think my wife and kids think I?ve lost it.
Zane
8 Jun
8 Jun
3:32 p.m.
On 08/06/2020 21:24, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote:
On the Amiga A501 trap door memory expansion, there is a battery for
the time clock that will leak. It can damage the memory board. Also,
the off gassing of it can cause corrosion in the main computer as well.
I checked my Amiga a few months ago. It does have the A501, but mine is
not fitted with a battery. The PCB has the "outline" for where the
battery should be, but no battery. It doesn't look like it's been
removed by anyone either (unless they did an exceptionally fine job ...).
No idea why mine has no battery.
Antonio
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9 Jun
9 Jun
10:16 a.m.
Looks like my Commodore 2002 monitor needs work. It?s not powering on. However, a
monitor that is about the same (says Amiga on the front), seems to more or less work.
The A500 (KS1.2) and A600HD (KS2.0) both complain they need a boot disk. One slight
problem, I have no idea where any of my Amiga floppies are.
Thankfully the Gotek I have was purchased pre-flashed with the old Cortex firmware, and as
a result I was able to boot my A600HD before calling it a day last night. Figuring out
how to use the Gotek proved to be an interesting experience, as either my google-fu is
faulty, or information online is pretty spotty. Once I got it going, it seemed to work
fine. The A600 is going to take a lot of work, and it looks like a couple parts to get it
fully up and running. Since it?s a A600HD, I?d like some sort of HD in there.
Zane
8:31 a.m.
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 21:24, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
There are some killer upgrades for the A500 that give it ~40mhz, 8MB of
RAM and hard drive via SD or CF cards. These upgrades might run $150-$200,
not bad compared to the flash cards that cost $120 for many systems or
say, the CF disk only for the Apple II @ $120ish.
Maybe worth mentioning one of the more extreme non CPU Amiga upgrades
- the zz9000, which is expensive at ?349.00, but has quite an
impressive set of features. List from
https://shop.mntmn.com/products/zz9000-for-amiga-preorder for those
who just prefer to read the damn text rather than bother with links :)
* RTG: Up to 1920x1080 FHD screen resolution at 8bit 256-colors
"Chunky", 16bit or 32bit color depths. (1920x1080 at 16 bit, all other
resolutions up to 32 bit).
* Enhanced VA2000CX Amiga native video passthrough functionality with
AGA support (scandoubler with interlace flicker-fixer)
* Dual 666MHz ARM Cortex A9 coprocessors to offload computing tasks
like JPEG, MP3 decoding and graphics acceleration
* 1GB DDR3 RAM
* Ethernet interface: Get your Amiga online
* USB port supports USB mass storage devices. The driver allows you to
access USB sticks from workbench.
* SD Card interface (for firmware updates, not currently usable from AmigaOS)
* For Amiga 500, 2000, 3000 and 4000 (Zorro 2 and 3 compatible)
* Drivers, firmware and schematics are open sourced:
https://source.mntmn.com/MNT
* Includes ZZ9000CX video slot capture card with cable
* Includes metal slot bracket
* Includes a minimal SDK with C examples for running ARM code from AmigaOS
* Important: To use ZZ9000 with Amiga 500, you need a Zorro II adapter
like Rob Cranley's Z-500 or the Checkmate 1500 Zorro adapter.
(Also has support for other operating systems for those that swing that way :)
David
11:23 a.m.
On Jun 9, 2020, at 8:31 AM, David Brownlee <abs at
absd.org> wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020 at 21:24, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
My main A3000 has a Picasso IV+, and a 10Mbit 10Base-2 card, this would be a seriously
tempting update. I never got around to adding USB, and would like a better Network card.
Do you have one of these? I?m afraid I haven?t been on the Amiga email lists, or boards
for a *VERY* long time.
Zane
There are some killer upgrades for the A500 that give it ~40mhz, 8MB of
RAM and hard drive via SD or CF cards. These upgrades might run $150-$200,
not bad compared to the flash cards that cost $120 for many systems or
say, the CF disk only for the Apple II @ $120ish.
Maybe worth mentioning one of the more extreme non CPU Amiga upgrades
- the zz9000, which is expensive at ?349.00, but has quite an
impressive set of features. List from
https://shop.mntmn.com/products/zz9000-for-amiga-preorder for those
who just prefer to read the damn text rather than bother with links :)
* RTG: Up to 1920x1080 FHD screen resolution at 8bit 256-colors
"Chunky", 16bit or 32bit color depths. (1920x1080 at 16 bit, all other
resolutions up to 32 bit).
* Enhanced VA2000CX Amiga native video passthrough functionality with
AGA support (scandoubler with interlace flicker-fixer)
* Dual 666MHz ARM Cortex A9 coprocessors to offload computing tasks
like JPEG, MP3 decoding and graphics acceleration
* 1GB DDR3 RAM
* Ethernet interface: Get your Amiga online
* USB port supports USB mass storage devices. The driver allows you to
access USB sticks from workbench.
* SD Card interface (for firmware updates, not currently usable from AmigaOS)
* For Amiga 500, 2000, 3000 and 4000 (Zorro 2 and 3 compatible)
* Drivers, firmware and schematics are open sourced:
https://source.mntmn.com/MNT
* Includes ZZ9000CX video slot capture card with cable
* Includes metal slot bracket
* Includes a minimal SDK with C examples for running ARM code from AmigaOS
* Important: To use ZZ9000 with Amiga 500, you need a Zorro II adapter
like Rob Cranley's Z-500 or the Checkmate 1500 Zorro adapter.
(Also has support for other operating systems for those that swing that way :)
David
12:58 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 19:23, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:
My main A3000 has a Picasso IV+, and a 10Mbit 10Base-2 card, this would be a seriously
tempting update. I never got around to adding USB, and would like a better Network card.
Do you have one of these? I?m afraid I haven?t been on the Amiga email lists, or boards
for a *VERY* long time.
I'm on the other side of the fence with a TT030, but I understand the
experience with them has been mixed from "everything that is supposed
to work does", to "some bits work but others don't, but the dev
releases updates which make more bits work".
I do like that they open source the FPGA logic
https://github.com/mntmn/zz9000-fw and that it just works in a
standard Zorro slot...
David
8:41 p.m.
On Jun 9, 2020, at 12:58 PM, David Brownlee <abs at
absd.org> wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 at 19:23, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:
Any advice specific to starting up a TT030 that?s been idle for ~20 years? The only
question with that system is, where is the monitor I used for it.
One thing that impressed me about the ZZ9000 is that it apparently even works in an A500.
I dug out the spare A3000, and *FINALLY* found my main A3000, it turns out it was hiding
behind some stuff in my Darkroom. Both systems have batteries starting to go. That?s my
next project. I think I might be lucky. The damage looks almost non-existant, definitely
better than my Lisa 2 when I got it 20+ years ago. While looking for the main A3000, I
dug out partial A500, it?s missing a CIA, and a Keyboard, as well as the top of the case.
I also dug out the two A1200?s, one says it has bad video, the other a bad Alice (that?s
the one that overheats).
Thanks to my son?s laptop needing work recently, I know where my soldering iron is. :-)
That was actually harder to find than the A3000. :-)
Zane
My main A3000 has a Picasso IV+, and a 10Mbit 10Base-2 card, this would be a seriously
tempting update. I never got around to adding USB, and would like a better Network card.
Do you have one of these? I?m afraid I haven?t been on the Amiga email lists, or boards
for a *VERY* long time.
I'm on the other side of the fence with a TT030, but I understand the
experience with them has been mixed from "everything that is supposed
to work does", to "some bits work but others don't, but the dev
releases updates which make more bits work".
I do like that they open source the FPGA logic
https://github.com/mntmn/zz9000-fw and that it just works in a
standard Zorro slot?
9:06 p.m.
Any advice specific to starting up a TT030 that?s been
idle for ~20
years? The only question with that system is, where is the monitor I
used for it.
I think the TT030 should just go? The other easy thing about the TT030 is
that it has a standard VGA connector. There is a special adapter that
someone makes that allows it to do a much higher resoution ?ECL? output
that is needed for running Unix on it. But for normal Atari stuff a VGA
montior should do.
On mine, I ended up using a SD2SCSI as the original drive sounded like a
chop saw. I don't remember a battery inside but we should probably check
on that and caps.
Haven't done much with mine. I last used it with UNIX for the last VCF
East, would like to setup a SD card with software that can take advantage
of it's graphics and sound stuff.
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4:30 a.m.
On 6/8/20 3:02 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
I have the urge to get my Amiga?s back up and running.
I?m still trying
to find my main Amiga A3000, but have found my A500 and my A600. The
problem is, I don?t remember the last time I powered these on. It?s
been a long time since I?ve had time. In the case of the A3000, I think
it?s been about 17 years. My Atari TT030 has been even longer. :-(
Any advice about powering them up?
As others have said, battery corrosion is a definite possibility, at least
for the 3000. YMMV with hard drives, too - I think 100MB Quantums were the
norm, and they do seem to be prone to stiction issues as they get older
(the one in my 2500 sometimes needs a little help to get going)
Other than that it's common sense stuff though, visual check for issues,
clean floppy drive heads, isolate and test PSU, try applying power, reseat
stuff as necessary.
Jules
11:04 a.m.
On Jun 9, 2020, at 4:30 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 6/8/20 3:02 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
I assume the spare A3000 has the Quantum, my heavily modified beater A3000 was last run
using an external drive (I forget why, I think I wanted to avoid messing with the AmigaOS
3.1 install on the local disk. The external disk has AmigaOS 3.9 on it. I know where
that HD is, and where my CD-ROM?s are. I?m just not sure where the A3000, keyboard, and
CD-ROM drive are.
I think my next project needs to be to pull out my spare A3000 and check it over. It?s
been nagging at the back of my head for years.
While I?m digging for my main A3000, I think I need to hunt up stuff like a floppy
cleaning kit. I think I know where they should be. It?s been way too long since I messed
with this stuff. I even moved all the Amiga books somewhere about a month ago?
Zane
I have the urge to get my Amiga?s back up and
running. I?m still trying
to find my main Amiga A3000, but have found my A500 and my A600. The
problem is, I don?t remember the last time I powered these on. It?s
been a long time since I?ve had time. In the case of the A3000, I think
it?s been about 17 years. My Atari TT030 has been even longer. :-(
Any advice about powering them up?
As others have said, battery corrosion is a definite possibility, at least for the 3000.
YMMV with hard drives, too - I think 100MB Quantums were the norm, and they do seem to be
prone to stiction issues as they get older (the one in my 2500 sometimes needs a little
help to get going)
Other than that it's common sense stuff though, visual check for issues, clean floppy
drive heads, isolate and test PSU, try applying power, reseat stuff as necessary.
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