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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: ehall on July 15, 2006, 12:53:33 AM

Title: newby
Post by: ehall on July 15, 2006, 12:53:33 AM

hello
im new to amiga and just learning i have a pile of hardware and mannuls i rescued from the dumpster here and there and ive just goten around to messing with it heres my hardware list

1 A500 with rev5 or rev6a motherboard
6a mobo has 1mb chip ram upgrade and 1mb agnus enabled
(my first projects:))
2 a2500 video toster boxes with many xpansion cards
1 a4000/040 video toaster box(workbench3.0)
1 10mb xternal supradrive and conector box
1 a1010 xternal floppy drive
1 mc68000p12f 16mhz processor
1 3.1 rom for a500/2000

so that and apile of software and manuals ive been messing with the a500 for fun abit but thats about it
(havent really messed with the a2500 or a4000 yet}

Title: Re: newby
Post by: amigakit on July 15, 2006, 12:55:24 AM

Welcome!

Title: Re: newby
Post by: Amiduffer on July 15, 2006, 01:07:20 AM

Dude! :-o Where's that dumpster!!

Anyone caught binning a good A4000 with VideoToaster should be given a swift kick in the pants.

Congrats, though, you're now going to be an adict for life now!!

Nyahhaahahahaha! :lol:

Title: Re: newby
Post by: odin on July 15, 2006, 01:20:19 AM

Remove that battery from the A4000 before it leaks all over the motherboard and makes it go dead!

Title: Re: newby
Post by: pierre on July 15, 2006, 01:30:48 AM

welcome, have fun with your pile o stuff, nice catch!  Don't make make any plans for a while becasue your gonna need some time to get this all hooked up!  

cheers,
Pierre

Title: Re: newby
Post by: SamOS39 on July 15, 2006, 09:17:59 AM

One mans trash is a whole Amiga Communities treasure i see  :-)

Welcome

Title: Re: newby
Post by: stopthegop on July 15, 2006, 10:39:43 AM

Man, what a find!  The 4000 is your real jewel, in my opinion.  Just keep in perspective as you're using them when exactly these Amigas were built and compare them to PCs and Macs of that time.  Say the Amiga 4000/040 vs. IBM x386/ DOS v6.22  vs. Macintosh "Performa" 400.  You'll see that the Amiga had (has) a superior design and was years if not decades ahead technilogically.  Plus the 4000 can be modernized quite nicely (with some time and money, of course) into a very respectable "modern" workstation.  Best of luck  

Title: Re: newby
Post by: Homer on July 15, 2006, 11:05:15 AM

Welcome to A-Org, have a :pint: with us :-)

Title: Re: newby
Post by: RobinGodd on July 15, 2006, 09:09:54 PM

Hello.

I have an a500 and a refirbished 1200.

I love the games on my amiga, such as alien breed 2, and zombie apocolypse 1 and 2.

 :-D

Hope you enjoy using your amiga.

 :-)

Title: Re: newby
Post by: Retromania on July 15, 2006, 10:20:37 PM

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Amiga !!!

That is quite a treasure chest you have there - well done indeed !

I hope you enjoy using Amiga.

A word of advice - keep it !  Regret is best realised when its too late !!!

Enjoy  :-)

Title: Re: newby
Post by: justthatgood on July 16, 2006, 03:02:01 AM

That kind of stuff doesnt surprise me in my neck of the woods. I remeber when there are companies that would throw away their stock of Atari ST's and other equipment (I remember even seeing them chuck a iMac) because their company policies require them to "destroy" decomissioned equipment.

Nowadays there are a lot of companies that use computer equipment reclaming firms to dispose of equipment, because of the whole toxic substances in solder and stuff. Hey, it's America land of want and waste.  :pint: