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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Everblue on November 18, 2009, 10:00:59 AM
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Its a long story....
A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend of mine and he casually said that he had an A4000 and 10 years ago he sold it to a local TV station to which he gave me the name (lets call this A). I knew a guy who works with me that used to work with TV station 'A' and I asked him if there could be a possibility that the A4000 was still there, and he promptly phoned an ex-colleague to check for me - the reply was that they would get back to me.
Yesterday, on my birthday I get a phone call from my workmate that he is driving to my house with a big-ass tower. It turned out to be an Amiga 4000T, which was just saved from the junkyard. The outer case while in general good condition has a few scratches and the door in front is gone.
I opened it up to take a peek, inside is still very clean, looks brand new, with a big surprise... it has a Cyberstorm MK2 060 processor with 32Megs on board. There are no zorroboards, there is a SCSI HDD (Seagate, 1gb) and no CD drive. Obviously its getting a few upgrades now, namely a graphics card/scandoubler and network card.
I took a photo of the tower to my friend who originally owned it, expecting him to tell me "I remember that from somewhere!" only to get a reply that it was not his A4000. I told him I got it from TV Station 'A', which you told me you sold it to..... only to find out that he actually sold the A4000 (he now tells me it was a 4000D) to a DIFFERENT TV station (B) and it was all a mistake.
I think I've been very, very, very lucky :)
PS. No, I am not going to phone TV Station B to enquire about the 4000D :)
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Hey, good for you, though I'm green with envy :D
You could call the other TV station on my behalf :)
Anyway, happy birthday!
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Thanks thanks thanks :)
Thats enough Amiga hunting for me right now! :)
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There's a lot of luck with 4000Ts recently :D
Lucky swine - I too am rather jealous.
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I still cannot believe it :)
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Geez, thats two people getting free amiga 4000 towers in a few days.
I'm still hoping and waiting for mine to come my way somehow :)
Steven
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You have been indeed very lucky. And I can't find any excuse for anybody throwing away a 060 accelerator board, let alone an A4000T >-(. Have you alredy checked if it works?
Varthall
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Yes, switched it on got a picture and everything. I want to install a SCSI CDROM on it and upgrade to OS3.9. I have also ordered a CF to IDE adapter which can be inserted into one of the backplates on the, er, back.
:)
Today I will give it a good cleaning on the case (cant do miracles though) and maybe take few piccies.
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Yes, the IDE -> CF interface that comes with the backplate bracket is great. It would be a nuisance to open the case everytime you want to take the card out, this solution is much more practical. I also ordered one yesterday.
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yo
Gratz with your new toy Nostromo :)
If you get bored with it, you know where to send it ;)
Cheers
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You have been indeed very lucky. And I can't find any excuse for anybody throwing away a 060 accelerator board, let alone an A4000T >-(. Have you alredy checked if it works?
Varthall
Makes you wonder how many sought after Amigas and expansion boards have been sent to the dump by people who didn't know any better. I see beige box PCs on the curbside all the time around here. To the untrained eye, the Amiga is just another beige box taking up room in their already over crowded garages. It just shows you the extremes of this marketplace. Somewhere in the world somebody is paying a ton of money for an 060 accelerator and somewhere else in the world somebody is throwing it away in the trash.
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The floppy drive is borked :(
I tried reading a few amiga floppies and after some grinding all are reported as NDOS. Then I tried formatting another disk and it was still unreadable.
Good thing I have another A4000 floppy drive coming my way in post :)
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And you thought your Amiga hunting was all over for now! Ha! Ha! Ha! Little did you know, it has only just begun! :) Congratulations on your good luck! (Have you started wondering yet if the floppy in the A4000D is in working condition?)
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Well, worse come to the worse I buy a brand new floppy drive modified to work with Amiga.
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Ok floppy works... (I ejected floppies a few times and it started working again :) )
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BTW, whats the best RTG/Scandoubler solution for this machine (other than Picasso IV). It seems Indivision is incompatible with this 4000 revision.
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Is the Indivision incompatible because of the orientation of the chips? If so maybe a ScanMagic may work for you because it has 2 separate boards that plug into the Alice and the other chip instead of one board.