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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: weirdami on March 10, 2003, 08:36:57 AM

Title: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: weirdami on March 10, 2003, 08:36:57 AM

Is there a way to get an A1000  with Workbench 1.2 to tell me what hardware is connected to it's front edge-connector?

I have A1000 with what I think are ram boards connected to the front. Thing is they have no printing on them which states what they are. :-(

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: AmiDelf on March 10, 2003, 08:38:23 AM

Take a picture and paste it here :) Would be nice to see :)


Regards,
AmiDelf

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: Piru on March 10, 2003, 08:54:03 AM

Does is match any of these:

cas-768KB-ram (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/cas-768KB-ram.html)
a1000256kramex (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/a1000256kramex.html)

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: on March 10, 2003, 08:55:19 AM

It is a 256k ram expansion on the front. As far as I know they didn't make any other ram sizes for the front edge connector. (Oops! I stand corrected someone did make a bigger ram size) Sorry about that.

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: weirdami on March 10, 2003, 08:58:30 AM

@AmiDelf
Is there a way to post an image without having to put the image somewhere else on the 'Net and linking to it?

hehe, I could UUEncode the images and post that text here. Then everyone can UUDecode it on their computer and see what all the hubbub is all about. :-D  :lol:

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: AmiDelf on March 10, 2003, 08:59:26 AM

This is nice.. here you learn something new everyday :)

Regards,
AmiDelf

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: weirdami on March 10, 2003, 09:06:19 AM

@piru

Nope, it's neither of those. :-( Except one was surrounded by that metal case thing in the second link you provided. The board didn't match, though.

---

Well, I did say there was nothing saying what they were, but one does say:

Assy. 103
Copyright
1986 by
Microbotics

And the other says:

ASSY. 200582

(C) 1986 BY
SKYLES
ELECTRIC WORKS

I guess I should have stated these up front. :oops:

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: Piru on March 10, 2003, 10:39:30 AM

A bit of googling revealed something:

256K RAM Card  MicroBotics             Memory                                     $129 (http://www.enkil.demon.co.uk/Pages/aminos3.html)

256K RAM       Skyles Electric Works   for A1000 front port (instead of A1050)    $79.95 (http://www.enkil.demon.co.uk/Pages/aminos3.html)

Not much, but something. Damn 256K was expansive back then... ;-)

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: tonyw on March 10, 2003, 11:42:43 AM

If you type "avail" in a Shell, it should tell you about your memory. It looks as though you have 512kb of chip RAM (256k on the board internally + 256k third party RAM on the front).

Have you looked inside? Is it a single board A1000 or does it have a daughter-board, upside-down, with the Kickstart RAM on it?

tony

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: LocalH on March 10, 2003, 12:30:26 PM

@weirdami:
I'd be willing to host the images for you, email them to localh@chartertn.net.  :-)

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: weirdami on April 06, 2003, 03:10:18 AM

That won't be neccessary. I figured out what they are. Now to see if anyone wants to buy a 256k RAM expander for an A1000. Classifieds here I come! :-)

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: Karlos on April 06, 2003, 03:15:06 AM

Right, 3:03 am, my brain hurts, so I suggest...



1) Open the A1000 case

2) Open a can of baked beans

3) Pour contents of can inside the open A1000 case

4) Close the A1000 case

5) Place the A1000 in a variety of orientations

6) Observe carefully if beans or tomato sauce ooze from any joins or holes in the A1000 case

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: weirdami on April 06, 2003, 03:34:59 AM

Do I have to remove the pork fat blob, or does that have a special function?

Title: Re: Will an A1000 spill the beans?
Post by: Karlos on April 06, 2003, 03:37:24 AM

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weirdami wrote:
Do I have to remove the pork fat blob, or does that have a special function?

That's for lubrication when the thing warms up, making the beans more fluid...

-edit-

I really do think I should go to bed now :-)