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Title: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: visualj on December 19, 2006, 04:39:42 PM

I'm on the verge of shedding a tear here.  A friend brought in a 1084s monitor for me to test out the A4000T with and to my shock and awe, it works.  The mouse seems to be dead, so I have to use the old A+ArrowKeys to get around, but it's enought to see everything in action!

Looks like I've got a 68040 (unknown clock speed as of yet),  2m chip + 16meg fast RAM, there are 4 hard discs, one inside the system, and 3 external (dataflyer shows 2x9.1gig and 1x2.1gig).  

Here are some pics of it in action :

Workbench...
(http://s114522264.onlinehome.us/jpg/a4000t_lives_001.jpg)


RAM...
(http://s114522264.onlinehome.us/jpg/a4000t_lives_002.jpg)


Directory Opus...
(http://s114522264.onlinehome.us/jpg/a4000t_lives_003.jpg)


Toaster Software...
(http://s114522264.onlinehome.us/jpg/a4000t_lives_004.jpg)

I'm absolutely reeling from this.. time to head to my parent's attic and dig out my old 1084s and other hardware!

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: Linchpin on December 19, 2006, 04:42:56 PM

Great find :)

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: X-ray on December 19, 2006, 04:50:13 PM

Does the keyboard work?

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: keropi on December 19, 2006, 04:50:59 PM

congratulations!!!! now enjoy your new amiga!  :-D  :-D  :-D

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: JimS on December 19, 2006, 04:51:41 PM

You are one lucky dog! Best deal like that I ever had was when one of my old customers called me up and asked if I wanted his old 2500. When I got there, he threw in the A100 also gathering dust.

On the mouse, check for 5v at the joystick ports. I believe it's the middle 2 pins in the bottom row.

-Jim

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: adolescent on December 19, 2006, 04:56:19 PM

It's most likely a 25MHz.  You can see the A3640 card in one of your other pictures.  

Excellent find.  You must have been veeeeeeeeeeery good this year!  :-o

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: visualj on December 19, 2006, 05:12:57 PM

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X-ray wrote:
Does the keyboard work?

Yup, the keyboard appears to work.  I actually have two Amiga keyboards here, but one has the smaller connector and would need an adaptor.  

Unfortunately I don't have another mouse handy to test.  I believe I have one (possibly two) in my parent's attic that I may go by their place to get this weekend.  Hopefully narrow it down some.

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: Ral-Clan on December 19, 2006, 05:22:26 PM

Well, as you have guessed by now, you have a Toaster 4000 card in there.....looks like a Toaster Flyer system.  Which, from the little I know, is a digital non-linear editing system!  I believe you can store tons of video on those extrenal hard drives and edit away.  Very cool!

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: Ral-Clan on December 19, 2006, 05:22:56 PM

Augh!  Double post.

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: X-ray on December 19, 2006, 05:33:00 PM

Ja, he got a hell of a good treasure there, that's for sure.
That's two free A4000Ts recently. And they are nice ones. How come I don't get any freebies  :-?

Title: Re: Santa loves me, my 4000T lives!! (with pics!)
Post by: tonyvdb on December 19, 2006, 06:05:14 PM

Thats great news visualj,
If you have any questions about using the Toaster Flyer feel free to PM me as I have one as well. You can add much larger SCSI drives to the flyer and get tons of video stored on them for editing. It will do a far better job then the PC software based systems due to the fact that Newtek uses a proprietary video capturing method called VTAC that dose not exibit any  macro blocking or other artifacts that are usualy seen with mpeg2 capturing.