Some of you may have seen this craigs list post yesterday:
1. 2 JVC Professional S-VHS play/record decks (BR-S611U)
2. 1 JVC Professional S-VHS editing recorder BR-S811U)
3. Abner editing controller
4. Two Amiga 2000 Computer with NewTek Video Toaster Card
5. FOR-A Time Base Corrector with digital effects unit including different wipe transitions, picture-in-picture, posterization, mosaic, strobing and more.
6. 1 JVC 20” broadcast program color monitor
7. 2 JVC 9” professional color monitors
8. 1 JVC 5” professional B/W monitor for time code readings
9. SoundTech 24 channel audio mixing board
10. Manuals for all equipment available
11. All equipment in excellent working order
The audio mixer was already sold when I got there. So the price ended up being $250 instead of the advertised $450. The amigas were described as the main toaster for this setup plus a spare. The executive summary is that both a2000s are in excellent condition. Both have what looks like original blue batteries. Neither has any trace of corrosion. The main toaster is very dusty inside, but otherwise in great shape. The spare was pristine inside.
Here's the info for the spare:
a2000
2 floppy drives
commodore a2091 harddrive controller with an unknown 3.5" quantum drive. Agnes looks to be 8372a. It also boots into workbench. I guess it was Ron's computer. :lol: A utility i found says that it's the ecs chipset. The motherboard has this in the corner by the floppy connectors: A/M 312723 rev 6, PCB 312720, FAB 312722. A sticker on the mb says rev 6.2. The bios chips (i think that's them) say 8364r7 and 8263r8. It looks like it used to have a toaster in it because the slot cover is missing on the back. Good thing I opened it before turning it on. The hard drive controller was completely unseated. As I said, it's squeeky clean inside and powered right up the first try after sitting for three years.
Here's the info on the main a2000:
Nearly the same motherboard. rev6.2, A/W 312726 rev 6, PCB 312720, FAB 312722. This one has the toaster board. Two floppy drives. There are also three hard drives. Two look to be scsi drives mounted one on top of the other in the 5.25" drive bay. Another hard drive looks like ide to me. It's attached to a card plugged into a zorro slot. It says "Digital Processing Systems" on the board and has 5 bnc connectors and an svga connector. I didn't pull it out though. There's also a cpu upgrade with a 68030FE33B. The scsi drives plug into this board. Some memory soldered to the board, plus three simms. There's a db-25 on the back plane, i guess external scsi. Roms are the same as the other. But the agnes has a DKB board in the socket. It says "microchip 2000/500" with an 8735 agnes. I cleared the dust away from many spots including the battery. No leakage. In spite of all the hard drives, it doesn't boot. I get the 2.0 rom screen asking for a disk. A lot of floppy disks were included, but no workbench disks or anything else amiga related for that matter, only toaster related disks and a huge number of fonts.
The cases are a slightly different color oddly enough and look great. They just need a bit of cleaning.
Many many things were also included. An original commodore 1200 baud amiga modem, an amiga mouse, a no-name amiga mouse, and a squeeky clean keyboard. I doubt it's original because it says "amiga technologies" on the back. Lots of manuals, wires, and other things. It will take some time to go through it all.
He said the original monitor died a long time back so he replaced it with an oddity. It's a 14" sony trinitron tube, model PVM-1390. It has all kinds of crazy connectors, switches, and dials on the right side. It looked black and white to me, but since it's a trinitron, I would think it's color. There's 100 buttons and switches on it so I probably have it set wrong. It even has sound.
I haven't found anything that's broken yet. He also threw in a cool audio/video switcher, some vintage teac stereo pieces, and a couple of bose speakers.
On top of all of this, there's a butt-load of video editing equipment I know nothing about, all of it heavy. You can see the list above. The VCRs are rack-mount with dials, knobs, sliders, switches, and old-school audio needle gauges that light up with light bulbs. They're a sight to behold.
You should see the pile of cables. It's all at our new house that I haven't moved into yet. It's sort of haphazzardly stacked in what will be my office/computer room. I'll try to head over there tomorrow evening and takes some pictures.
So was it a good deal for $250? :lol:
What can everyone tell me about the amigas?
brian
