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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Ratte on May 22, 2007, 07:51:42 PM

Title: Monster A2000
Post by: Ratte on May 22, 2007, 07:51:42 PM

< A2000 > (http://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?mode=viewthread&forum_id=17&thread=25&goto=1&post_nr=14#14)

Computer description:
- A2000/060-PPC/RAID5/NIC/SoundCard/USB/PicassoIV

Outside mods:
- Fan-controller display.
- Controll panel with Reset button and LED's for HD, NIC, Power
- USB ports
- Earphone connector with own volumeknob.

Inside:
- PSU airflow improved with wiremech and differnet fan
- All wires are tidied up
- Extra fans and heatprobes
- Drivebay modified aswell as one of the floppydrives to make room for PPC addon
- Motherboard ISA slots removed to make room for RAID controller
- Much much more but "you'll see"

Hardware Spec:
- Computer: A2000 - Motherboard Rev 6.1
- Accelerators: Blizzard 2060 (50Mhz)
- Accelerators: PPC Developer Board - (150Mhz)
- SCSI "ACS-8910" Controller: Running Raid5 with 8 2.5" IDE HDD's
- Memory: 2Mb Chip / 128Mb Fast
- Grafix: Picasso IV with Pablo II, Paloma IV
- NIC: XSurf
- Sound: Delfina Flipper (piggybacking on XSurf card)
- USB: Subway USB (piggybacking on XSurf card)
- Floppy Drives: 2 x HD Floppy drives
- CDROM: SCSI x16 (CD Changer for 5 disks)
- Cooling: 3xfans + controller with display

respect!!!
 :-o

Title: Re: Monster A2000
Post by: reddwarfer on May 22, 2007, 08:35:45 PM

NUTTER!!!

Title: Re: Monster A2000
Post by: Damion on May 22, 2007, 08:44:35 PM

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- Accelerators: PPC Developer Board - (150Mhz)

OMGWtehF??!? :-o

Title: Re: Monster A2000
Post by: Karlos on May 22, 2007, 08:53:51 PM

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Ratte wrote:
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respect!!!

Word.

Title: Re: Monster A2000
Post by: amigakid on May 22, 2007, 09:17:00 PM

Sounds expensive, got some pics of it and the internals for us  :-D

Title: Re: Monster A2000
Post by: Ratte on May 22, 2007, 10:34:07 PM

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-D- wrote:

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- Accelerators: PPC Developer Board - (150Mhz)

OMGWtehF??!? :-o

< adding the PPC to the Blizzard2060 > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foWfXhmi1wY)

great movie ...

http://pepe.8bit.dk/ (http://pepe.8bit.dk/)

Title: Re: Monster A2000
Post by: Damion on May 23, 2007, 04:24:25 AM

Interesting, so it's basically a prototyp board. I'd love to hear the story as to how they acquired that!

Very cool. Maybe DCE will loan me their A500 AGA+PPC board for a film shoot? ;-)

 

Title: Re: Monster A2000
Post by: Van_M on May 23, 2007, 02:34:34 PM

Frankenstein Computing......
Only Amiga makes it possible!