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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Hyperspeed on December 17, 2004, 01:31:23 AM
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Okay so you bought your new Amiga, you have fond memories of the
bundle - but in the following months/years what extras did you buy for
it and in what order?
I got a hard disk for my stock A1200, then printer, accelerator/RAM,
modem then SCSI setup with drives and scanner.
I never did get a GFX card as for A1200 it was like stroking a cat
from arse to head.
:-D :-D :-D
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For A500, nothing but a KCS PowerPC x86 emulation board. For my later A1200 I got respectively a whopping 80MB HD, a Microtec (I think) 030 board with some mem, an 800MB HD, a CD-ROM drive, a 14k4 modem, an A3000T case for towering it, p5 BlizzardPPC (040, no SCSI), a Micronik flimsy plastic tower with Z2 board, a BVision oh and a bigger (4,3 gig) HD somewhere along the way which fried this year.
And in september I got my first A4000 :-). The PPC A1200T is going on sale shortly.
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I got my Amiga, 030, 16MB ram and a 2.4GB hard drive all in the one week. In that order I think. All in 1997.
About a year after that it was a 52x CD-ROM with IDEfix97, then in 2003 (I think) the Eyetech EZ-Z4 Tower with an SD/FF (I already had an ancient PC monitor). Then it was a free 20GB HD from my mum (she was getting a new PC, so I got hers as spare parts :-D ), then a new 040/25.
Finally I got a BPPC 603e/175-040/25 and BVision just a few weeks ago. Hopefully I'll be getting a new monitor for next to nowt soon too :-D
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Good topic.
Over the period of 4-5 years.
A500 + 1084S (same day)
A501
Roctec FDD
A570 CD-ROM (with included motherboard upgrade)
Dataflyer SCSI + 120M SCSI HD
M-Tec 68020i + 4M RAM
Fun system. Sold or gave everything away. The Roctec floppy is still in my storage.
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Hornby Turbotouch 360 joypad for my A500. To my mind, the best single pad I have ever used on any platform.
The A500 came preinstalled with a 512kb ram upgrade. Nothing else was added to it, I bought an A1200 instead :-D
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A stock C= A1200 with C=1084;) <- May '97
->
Eslat 1204 (4MB Fast+RTC)
20 MB 2,5" PraireTek HDD :)))
Toshiba x4 CD-ROM
Amiga M1438S
Seagate ST3660A HDD (520MB)
ADAX PC Midi Tower
x32 CD-ROM
M-Tec 1230/28RTC+8MB Fast
Kickstart 3.1
Seagate ST32177A HDD (1200MB)
Elbox 1230LC/40+8MB Fast
x40 CD-ROM
Apollo 1240/40MHz, 32MB
+16MB (=48)
PC Big Tower
Caviar 34300 (4GB) HDD
+32MB (=64)
CD-RW
Samsung SV0842 HDD (8GB) <- just a few days ago,
!!!EDIT!!!
now i got:
BlizzardPPC 603e/160MHz, 040/25MHz
i am looking for oscillators, especially for 040:)
so currently it looks like:
A1200
PowerPC IBM 603ev/160
MC68040/25MHz
2MB Chip, 64MB Fast
8 GB Samsung HDD
x48 CD-ROM
x12 CD-RW
Adapted PC BigTower
Amiga M1438S display
DD floppy:)
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@Odin,
I was always intrigued by that KCS PC board. Was it the best of both worlds at the time?
Anyway, for my A500 upgrades were as follows in order of purchase:
April 1990: Commodore A501 512Kb RAM expansion
June 1990: Mastersound sampler
December 1990: Power Computing double external FDD
February 1991: Philips CM8833 MkII
I bought my A1200 in January 1994 and kept it standard for a few years:
March 1997: Western Digital 420Mb Hdd
May 1998: Apollo 1240 25Mhz, 16Mb RAM
June 1998: Squirrel SCSI with 2x CD ROM
Dec 1999: 4.3Gb Samsung HDD
May 2000: 52x ATAPI CD ROM, 4x buffered IDE interface
June 2000: Eyetech EZKey XS
June 2000: 66Mhz Oscillator ;-)
Sept 2000: Mediator 1200, ViRGE
Oct 2000: Power Tower
Dec 2000: Voodoo 3, 80Mhz oscillator, extra SIMM socket
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Bought an used A500
Slim DD external floppy
Action replay MKII (or was it MKIII)
*sold it*
Bought a new 1200
A used Mitsubishi Monitor 14" + 23pin->15pin converter
Maxtor 256MB HD 3½"
accl. 030 28MHz with FPU 28Mhz and 4MB Fast
Maxtor 1,2GB HD 3½"
*sold it*
Bought an used A4000/040 with 8MB Fast used my 1,2GB HD in it
CyberVision64 4MB ram version
*sold it*
Got a PC *ick*
Bought an used A4000 with
CyberStorm MKII 060 50Mhz 128MB Fast
CyberVision64/3D 4MB
BuddaIDE
put a 15GB IDE HD in it a Plextor IDE CD 40x
Bought a SD/FF for it
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Here is my list from the first to last (I can't remember the exact dates so I don't list those)
My first Amiga was a500:
Standard unexpanded A500 (bought in 1989)
512kb ram expansion
KS2.04
Logitech mouse.
SupraDrive 500XP + 40GB SCSI harddrive + 2MB Ram
I currently have A1200T:
Standard unexpanded A1200 whitout harddrive (bought in 1995)
540MB Seagate harddrive
Wizard mouse
Blizzard 1230 IV 50Mhz + 16MB SIMM
NEC Multisync 3D CRT
Apollo 1240 40Mhz
Apollo 10Mbit PCMCIA NIC
Canon BJC-210
New internal keyboard (old's cable damaged)
ALPS 4x 4CD Changer
Infinitiv Tower + ZII-busboard
10GB IBM DeskStar harddrive
10MBit PCMCIA NIC (old died)
Blizzard 1260 50Mhz
64MB SIMM
AmigaOS 3.5
AmigaOS 3.9
ADI 15" CRT
Mediator PCI busboard
New PSU
Voodoo 3 3000 PCI
10Mbit PCI NIC
SoundBlaster 128 PCI
New PSU (old died)
LG 52x24x52x CDRW
Hercules SmartTV PCI
New A1200 motherboard (old destroyed by the lightning)
Nokia 447Za 17" CRT
External ADSL modem
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When I bought my AmigaOne mobo, I bought also everything I needed to make it a complete system. Later when I read that the onboard sound wasn't working, I had to buy a Soundblaster PCI 128 :(
Varthall
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For my A500+ I got a memory expansion and an external diskdrive. I still use that drive, excellent quality.
I bought my A1200 with a 120MB hard drive, the first expansion was a DKB Cobra 030/28Mhz with 4MB of RAM.
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A Perfect-Sound sound sampler.
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Hyperspeed wrote:I never did get a GFX card as for A1200 it was like stroking a cat
from arse to head.
:-D :-D :-D
What do you mean? It gets annoyed, and bites you? :-)
My A600 was loaded with extra RAM and a HD from the start, so the only "upgrade" that got was an AMAS2 sampler/MIDI interface.
My A1200 acquired the following:
Hard disk
Accelerator/RAM
Bigger hard disk
CD-ROM
Printer
KS3.1
Eyetech Tower + external keyboard interface
Single-slot Zorro-II adapter + CV64/3D
Flicker fixer/Scan doubler + monitor switch
PPC accelerator/RAM
BVision
SCSI HD and CD-RW
Technically it isn't the same A1200 all the way through; I've had three mobo's with different revisions over time! :-)
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As i got my first a500 second hand the first peripheral i bought was a mouse that worked.
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My peripherals have been 'adopted' by subsequent Amigas.
1) First got an Amiga 500, followed by a RAM expansion, followed by an external floppy.
2) Had an A600 for two weeks, ditched that, got a B2000. Then got a Canon BJ230 A3 bubblejet.
3) Got an A1200. Still had the printer and external floppy. First upgrade: a Microbotics 030 and a 68882 FPU. Then a Squirrel SCSI and an external 1gb SCSI drive. Finally (after years of TV use) I got a second-hand Philips monitor for the A1200.
4) Big sell. Sold it all, except the external SCSI drive and some joysticks and software, and the printer (still got it).
5) Got the A4000T and M1438s monitor and lots of upgrades:
Cyberstorm MK II 060
Lola 2000 Genlock
Vidi 24 RT Pro digitizer
Technosound Turbo II audio digitizer
CD-Rewriter (that went into an external case)
External SCSI Zip 100
CyberSCSI module for MKII
And finally, recently, I got the Big Three:
DKB3128 (128mb on it now)
PIV (with Concierto and Paloma)
PPC card (604e/233, 060)
and spares:
030 CPU card for testing
AT PSU (new old stock, bought for £6)
A2000 Keyboard
My next purchases:
Spare floppy (HD preferred)
Mouse adapter (so I can use PC mouse from early-startup)
Pablo card (if I can find it, for PIV)
PPC Cybervision (as a spare GFX card, if it comes up reasonable price)
I also want to design a brand-new case, because mine is dented, has a few scratches underneath, and the bezel is yellowed. Also, the A4000T is not a nice case to open and is very heavy. I'm sure I can design a better one and just get the backplane laser cut to my specs.
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I bought a brand new A600 with 40Mb HD. First I bought a joystick. Not that long after I got a second joystick and an external diskdrive and soon after that I bought a memory upgrade to 2Mb Chip for it aswell.
Next I got an A1200 second hand with a modem and a printer and it's first uppgrade was a PCMCIA CDRom. That was followed up by an order of a Blizzard1230 Rev3 with 8Mb memory and a 200W PSU specialy made for Amiga. I had to sit with that for a while and be happy, but HD space became a problem (120Mb isn't much even if it seemed like that compared to the 40Mb on the A600) and so I bought the biggest HD I could buy for money witch was a Quantum Fireball 3.2Gb drive for about 500$ (I belive the 4.3Gb HD was advertised the month after my purchase or something but still 3.2Gb would be the last HD purchase I would need... I thought at the time... most PC's I came by didn't even break the 1Gb back then). In the mix of all this my 28" TV died and I bought a very expencive Panasonic 14" monitor with Scart connector so I could get better picture... little did I know a decent Amiga monitor would've cost less and would've produced a better picture.
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When I got my first AMIGA computer the first peripheral I remember buying was an external high density disk drive. Worked wonders with DCopy :-)
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Amiga 600 (Feb 1993)
- 1MB Ram Expansion
- Golden Image Hand Scanner
- 120MB Hard drive
- SquirrelSCSI interface and CD-ROM drive
- Golden Image (?) external floppy drive 880K
Amiga 1200 (Jan 1995)
- Moved HD and SCSI from A600
- DKB1202 + 4MB Ram
- 28.8kbps external modem (Zoom)
- IOmega Zip SCSI
- FPU for DKB 1202 (40Mhz ?)
- DCTV
Now:
- AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.9Ghz 256MB Ram running WinUAE
Dan
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Wow, nice upgrades!
My upgrade path was a lot slower but I suppose it gave me time to get
the most out of every last byte of memory and disk space. It's a good
discipline to have less and make the most of it - an Amiga tradition!
I wish I got a monitor the same day as my A1200, I had to use a 25"
telly for a few years, then got a PC SVGA NEC Multisync 3D (hey they
seem a popular monitor for scandoubler users!)
The Dataflyer would be an interesting bit of kit for CD32 owners if
they had an SX32 since it would allow them to use SCSI scanners, CD
burners and flash card readers!
miksuh: Do you still have your IBM `DeathStar'? They have a bit of a bad rep!
Chunder: I meant it goes against the grain and doesn't feel quite
right! ;-) Ripping the shielding off, stuffing the motherboard in a
tower (at an extra £100+) then getting a Zorro busboard and keyboard
etc. It's not the sort of thing your average Amiga owner wanted to do
back in the mid 90's.
:-D
Turambar: The best Amiga mouse was the Wizard 3-button (560dpi) mice
in black and vanilla - very accurate, great microswitches and the
middle button could be assigned to shift or used in Quake to run/jump.
I still think the CD32 pad is the best you can get for Amiga, not sure
about joysticks but 'The Bug' was a little too wobbly for me.
X-Ray: The A4000T would be most peoples' dream upgrade...
;-) ;-)
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@ Hyperspeed
Yup, I was in a state of near-arousal when I first opened up the A4000T box back in 1996. I was also excited about having the 1438s multisynch monitor.
And I have to agree about the Wizard mouse. I have had mine since 1996 and it is excellent. The middle button could also do something in Brilliance (swap between main and buffer?) IIRC.
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For my 1200HD the first thing I got was a multisync monitor. A Datic. It's still my backup monitor in case the one for my PC stops functioning (it is showing those signs at the moment).
The next thing was a Blizzard 68030 with 16 Mb of RAM. Quite expensive back in those days.
* A Turbosound sampler than I never really used.
* A very expensive HP printer (it was completely crap and dropped from HP's range a couple of months later). The print head collected dust and you had to clean the head after every single page if you didn't want to get ink dragged across the page. Directly after a clean it did print some rather awesome colour photos though. I've never had any luck with inkjet printers so now I've got a really cheap Minolta PagePro 1200W laser printer (no coulour). It works like a charm and has extremly low running costs.
* A Squirrel SCSI with 4x-speed CD-ROM (the CD-ROM unfortunately died after two years)
* A SCSI Zip drive to work as an extra (and replaceable) hard drive.
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I got a printer before I got an accelerator. Graphics were my joy so I
got a Canon BJC 600 which was £600 GBP at the time.
I could have bought a Blizzard 1260 for that back then!
:-D
I remember the BJC600 was a delight to use but there was no TurboPrint
back then so I made do with the Workbench drivers. It was wonderfully
quiet compared to an Epson and had 4 replaceable colour carts in a
frosted plastic so you could see how full they were in the blink of an
eye.
They were 50% sponge, 50% liquid unlike an Epson cart which is 100%
sponge in terms of volume.
360dpi was a breakthrough back then, especially when the latest craze
was the Citizen ABC 24-pin dot matrix.
Another of my early purchases was a Squirrel with a Reno-CD drive (the
one that snapped in half and doubled as a discman!). It was too noisy
to be a discman and too slow to be a CD-ROM drive - crashed a lot too.
Eventually I decided I needed a SCSI-IV and a PC case to house the
drives.
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Well my first Amiga was an A600, shortly after I got a 512K expansion ram module (They sold it to me as a 1MB could not take it back as the shop closed down) Then it was a second floppy drive unit. Made a scart lead for the TV so I got RGB instead of the normal PAL.
:-)
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Well my First amiga upgrade I ever bought was a Blizzard 1230IV :-)
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I got my A500 and a 1084S at the same time.
Added a 512k memory expansion, just to experience kick off better ;-) (AFAIR it had some extra sounds with more than the stock 512k mem). Plus I could now hear the wind when ejecting in Interceptor.
Edit: Forgot the Star LC24-10 printer ;-)
Then I got an external floppy, a sound sampler, and a new internal keyboard since my brother smashed the num key enter button by accident.... ;-)
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My first Amiga was the first Amiga 1000 sold in the state of Virginia, USA. I got it and a 1080 monitor in October 1985 from a local dealer. Within 2 weeks I went back to the store with my mom (I was 13 at the time) to get a 2nd 3.5" drive and ended up also getting the front-bay 256K mem expander.
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