I am back again with a small update on this A1000. I am sorry that it has taken so long to get back at this, but I moved residence and shortly after, all of my disks were damaged in a flood. The Amiga is fine, but I have lost all my disks including kickstart disks, so I had put working on it aside for a while.
Now I feel like having another go at this thing. Tomorrow I am picking up a Gotek floppy drive emulator to use in it for now as it seems the most cost effective way to get me going on it again. I will be trying to repair the keyboard again, now that I have more space to work on it.
To be a smarty pants, how is the barn?
My new residence is actually almost right across the road from the house and barn. Sadly, the barn and the house I was working on was burnt down by an arsonist. He was caught the next morning when he was wo during around the area and got spooked by the police and tried to flee up my driveway but was stopped by our dog and apprehended by the police.
Now onto the more exciting news. In preparation for installing the Gotek drive, I opened up the case once again. This time I was able to get the stripped screw out that was holding the front pannel on. What I found under the daughterboard was what I was thought might be going on.
Someone had preformed the ram stacking mod on this machine. Altough a bit sloppy. I beleive it is up to 1MB chip ram with this mod. This has me excited as I had found word of this mod being posible, but no documentation about it online. I don't want to touch it just yet though, as I want to run some tests on it to see if it is stable. This will require me having a working keyboard and/or mouse, so the testing might be delayed a while. Afterwards, I want to carefully pull up the daughterboard and document how the mod was done and share it with everyone.
Feel free to ask any questions. I am very happy to be moving forward with this project again.