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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Starrfoxx on January 30, 2007, 03:02:50 AM
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On Monday, my wife and I needed to seriously clean out this closet we have of all the junk and other stuff in there. My old, broken Amigas were also in there. I opened up my old Amiga 2000 to take a look at what i had in there, because I would like to get that thing running again. I think I found the clock battery. There's slight leakage, but not too bad. I had a CSA Derringer 030 accelerator on it that was plugged right into the 68000 chip slot. I also had a MegAChip installed. I removed the 030 accelerator and put that in a static bag. Once i find my chip puller, I'll take out the MegAChip and the Gary chip that it's wired to. I can replace both chips with "newer" chips and see if that allows me to get this baby started again.
I also recently aquired an A4000d expanded in a HighFlyer case. It's got a Toaster/Flyer and I think a kitchen Sync in it too. I was looking to see if there was an accelerator or something on there, but what i found was a "brown" square chip that said 68060 50. It doesn't look like it's on any type of accelerator card. I'm not quite sure if this Amiga has a 68060 on it, or maybe those are just numbers to something else. Are 060 chips brown and sqaure? I do know that the Amiga turns on, it just doesn't go to Workbench. Could be a hard drive problem, I'm not sure. It gets stucks on the 1> mark or something that looks like AmigaDOS.
Oh, I also checked the clock battery. I'm not sure what it has, but it's a purple battery and it looks like it's in perfect shape. The battery looks slightly different than the standard green one that my original A4000d has.
In any case, once I get this thing torn down it'll be the base for my A4000 tower project.
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Wow. Derringer is a great piece of kit. It's a waste to use it on an A2000 though, better use it on an A500 where accelerators are more rare.
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Yeah, that's what an 060 accelerator should have on it. Cross-check it at one of the hardware databases.
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countzero wrote:
Wow. Derringer is a great piece of kit. It's a waste to use it on an A2000 though, better use it on an A500 where accelerators are more rare.
I think it's possible that I originally had it installed on my Amiga 500 long ago. The A500 is where I started, but my memory is pretty fuzzy with all the details. Eventually I bought an Amiga 2000, so that I could have the room to expand. I think I moved the Derringer to the A2000 at the time. It's the only thing that makes sense, otherwise I would've just gotten an accelerator for the CPU slot.
Both my A2000 and A500 are non-working. I'm hoping to tear them both down to the bare essentials and see if I can get them working again.
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I think I may know what is in that A4000d that I got from my friend. It may be a Cyberstorm Mk2 or Mk3. I think it is a Mk2, but I'll check it out later. I was right about the chip i saw. The 060 is a brown/square chip, and it looked like this picutre:
(http://amiga.resource.cx/photos/cyberstorm2-060.jpg)
The computer looks like it has the CyberSCSI on it too. I couldn't figure out what was down there (trying to look deep inside a HighFlyer 4000 is tough unless you tear it apart), but there was something towards the back of the processor card. I know whatever was there was not on my original A4000. After I saw this:
(http://amiga.resource.cx/photos/cyberstorm2-scsi.jpg)
Then I recognized it. That's a CyberSCSI. Wow, and to think that my friend was going to trash this computer! I'm glad i saved it. :-D
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yup, it's a MKII, I have one :)
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Nice finds! After reading all the posts here about almost-trashed Amigas, I'm going to start trolling our local recycle centers and thrift stores. :idea:
Not to be a vulture or anything :-D but if you ever decide that the Derringer is, umm, excess to your needs, can I be first in line to make an offer? I have an A500 that would make a nice home for it.
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Whoa... you can make lots of money on ebay by selling those cards, especially the 060 one ;-)