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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: Chain on February 14, 2006, 06:04:18 AM
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Commdore-Amiga-Comp_W0QQitemZ8766140962QQcategoryZ4598QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
:-o :lol:
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I am ROLLING ON THE FLOOR already....
did ya see the Shipping Charges on that....
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Dang, i had 2 of thoes when i was in high school, both of which i found at different times laying out side for the trash guys to pick up. Mine had a warning lable on the top indicating that the machine was 20kg and that you should use caution when lifting.
They were both 286 systems with mca buss. Cards installed were a pain, as you needed a disc to load the firmware or someting. I hated mca buss, loose the disk you are screwed. And this was before i had internet access.
One of the machines had a 286->386 upgrade chip. They are built like tanks, very hevy, lots of steel. The handle was a nice touch. The handle it's self was solid steel, and probably weighed like 5 pounds.
The harddrive that was installed in both was quite large(physically), a full height 5.25 brick that took like 20 seconds to spin up, and sounded really cool. It was mounted with blue rubber mounts.
Both could do 320x200@256 color. They could both drive 640x480 but i dont remember the color depth ( probably 16)
Memory was limited, i think on may have had 8mb, the other 4.
Used the upgraded one mainly for runnin my qbasic programs. At some point i got ahold of a p133, and i beleived i smashed the ibm machines on the driveway.
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I have the case to one of those some where. I also had a
IBM PS/2 Model 55 SX (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=682=12)
One thing I can tell you about most, if not all of those IBM systems. I those suckers were heavier then a death metal band from Sweden :lol:
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They came with the best keyboards ever made. IIRC these PCs had a lifetime warranty (as long as you have them).
Could you imagine how different the PC industry would be today if the IBM executives didn't keep the MCA (first P&P on x86!) from going mainstream. IBM could have made their own PReP-compliant mobos and let Taiwan do the thing they do best.
IBM executives are really retarded. They must have had their education from Dilbert comics back then... :lol:
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NCR, Bull, ALR also sell Microchannel machines.
Several IBM PowerPC machine also use Microchannel.
There are crazy Microchannel cards:
1. Mainframe in a card (IBM PS/2 295, IBM P70 Portable).
2. Quad / Dual Intel i860 card (Wizard)
The latest IBM microchannel server: 720 with 6 Pentium I/90 CPU.
There is a dual side network card: one for ISA bus, the other side for Microchannel (IRMA).
Proposal for creating USB Microchannel card failed (too late).
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There is however one rare item on eBay right now, a genuine C= A4000T. Sadly, the front door is missing....
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@asian1
I am aware about these companies using MCA in their PCs/Peripherals.
Back then...
There was a problem: Lack of Plug And Play on x86 PCs.
Solution: MCA was the only solution at the time.
Problem: License fees were too expensive.
Finally Microsoft took care of the problem... In '95~96. :roll:
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@ Chain,
Copyright infrignement!!!! Patent infringement!!!!!
Well it COULD be, except that I never copyrighted or patented Frankenthousand. But the back of that IBM case looks identical with the 386 IBM server I gutted and used to house my Franeknthousand project. Not only are A1000 motherboards rather large, but trying to add in an accelerator, flicker fixer, ROM Switcher and SCSI/IDE controller along with multiple hard drives and CD burner was getting to be too much for even TWO A1000 cases stacked.
I painted mine black and laid it down like a desktp case, though.
Anyway, that's about the only connection I can think of between this case and the Amiga.
Hehe. . . I did once call Frankenthousand a "portable" Amiga because of the built in handle. :-D
Paul
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dude says he was going to relist the item later. Maybe it was a fowl up, maybe the ebayer just posted what he was told it was... That machine is god awful heavy, but 175 is excessive
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i had one of those it was a 386 with a 486 accelerator i got when i was working at ibm, god awful heavy is pretty accurate, you didnt need to worry about anybody stealling it though. the college i want to had several in offices and they all had a platform with castor wheels on it so they could roll them around