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Title: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: bjjones37 on January 28, 2013, 04:44:01 PM

How are the Amiga 1200s that Petro is selling configured? Do they have a hard drive or even a hard drive controller?  How much memory do they have? Do they have any kind of expansion slot?

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: rvo_nl on January 28, 2013, 05:32:00 PM

AFAIK they are just basic a1200's without hard drive. There is the standard IDE controller, PCMCIA port and trapdoor expansion slot and the standard 2mb memory.

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: VingtTrois on January 28, 2013, 05:53:30 PM

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61870

A1200 + some disks + manual + original box + cable + PSU...

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: danbeaver on January 28, 2013, 10:34:42 PM

We've never heard back on "capacitors," timing issues, and reliability. Many came dirty with dried styrofoam stuck to things, and I assume they had all powered up. Do we know any more?

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: bjjones37 on January 30, 2013, 03:55:01 PM

Can I add a hard drive to one of these or do I have to upgrade the power supply first? How would I upgrade the memory?

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: rvo_nl on January 30, 2013, 03:59:28 PM

both is possible though the 3.5 requires a different cable and is a tight fit. power supply might not be good enough, but you could be lucky.

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: VingtTrois on January 30, 2013, 04:07:39 PM

Quote from: bjjones37;724680

Can I add a hard drive to one of these or do I have to upgrade the power supply first? How would I upgrade the memory?

About an internal HDD for your A1200: the better choice is Compact Flash/IDE adapter on the IDE internal port of the A1200.
For the memory, you must find an expansion board: AMIGA.ORG - AMIBAY.COM - EvilBAY.

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: nadoom on January 30, 2013, 04:45:09 PM

Quote from: danbeaver;724500

We've never heard back on "capacitors," timing issues, and reliability. Many came dirty with dried styrofoam stuck to things, and I assume they had all powered up. Do we know any more?

Mine had 0 dead capacitors, and was in very good condition.

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: Akiko on January 30, 2013, 04:57:07 PM

Quote from: danbeaver;724500

We've never heard back on "capacitors," timing issues, and reliability. Many came dirty with dried styrofoam stuck to things, and I assume they had all powered up. Do we know any more?

The timing issues have randomly affected every revision of A1200 motherboard from day 1.

Title: Re: Amiga 1200 from Petro
Post by: amigakit on January 30, 2013, 06:17:43 PM

We recently recapped one of the A1200s as a precaution for a customer and upgraded it its accelerator and Hard Disk after applying the timing fixes.