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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: TjLaZer on May 29, 2004, 08:51:31 PM
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4598&item=4130614463&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
This is the worst shape 2000 I have ever seen!
"Good cosmetic condition!" Haha what a liar!!!
It needs a little TLC doesn't it? ;)
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I felt the need to email the seller to inform him that it really was NOT in good cosmetic condition! hehehhe.
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It's not too bad apart from the missing floppy drive faceplate and dents in the case :-)
Reminds me of a party at a friends place a few years back. The loud music caused one of the giant speakers to fall off the roof (don't ask!) and land on top of my friend's A4000D while it was running. Still worked fine afterwards but there was a massive dent in the case, and it killed my brand new 2Gb hard drive which was in it at the time :-(
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Holy christ!
What a peice of crap. :-o
"gonvernment surplus" ??? Which government agency here in the states uses Amiga's???
Hmmm ... Well, I am sure that it isn't the "Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction" department, that one obviously uses PC's running Windows XP. No Amiga could ever be that wrong.
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- Mike
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My A2000 was in worse condition when I sold it! My Dad reversed a transit van into the box it was in, I straightenned the chassis with a lump hammer (after I took out all the boards ;-)) and got an A1500 top (which never quite fitted). The only casualties was the top, floppy drive, and a couple of CDs that were in the box with it ...
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Which government agency here in the states uses Amiga's???
I read an article one or two years back, about NASA using Amiga's for processing downstream data from the shuttles. It looked very convincing, there were pictures of dozens of Amiga's and all...
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Hi,
Yes, Amiga is still used at NASA. Main use is for sensor input from various spacecraft. They make their own Zorro cards and the machines can dependably monitor more than one sensor "telemetry" at a time. High management has tried to pry them away and upgrade but, the idea of having a crash prone alternative W/O real multitasking is going nowhere.
Chris
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drwho:
"gonvernment surplus" ??? Which government agency here in the states uses Amiga's???
In North America lots of government agencies jumped at the chance to get away from 3/4" U-matic video based editings systems that were cuts only, had no character generators, and in somecases couldn't even handle color well, or at all. Many such systems were falling apart anyway.
They bought a lot of A2000 Video Toaster systems for tape based editing systems like Ami-Link. In the Kansas City area I think the Police Academy had one. IIRC, the main prison in Jefferson City had a Toaster based studio for state agency production.
How they were used depended on who got assigned the work of using them. I got to play with one agency's NewTek Toaster turn-key system. It was basically a re-branded KS 1.3 A2000HD. I'm not even sure if it had a meg-a-chip upgrade. It booted directly to the Switcher. They did not even know that the Workbench existed until I showed them how to exit the Toaster interface. (Score one for the C= brain trust.) That agency had nobody local who knew video locally. They shipped it out of state to someone who could use it.
My region of Social Security was ready for the video revolution. (Several other of our reagions have/had Toasters, as well.) My late boss bought an A2000 before they were even released. We used it with a Super-Gen, plus Deluxe Paint for graphics, and as a CG, with a 3/4 editing system. When we could we bought an A3000T with Toaster and Ami-Link editor. Several years we added an A4000T Toaster/Flyer system, an an A4000D Toaster unit. I still use at least one of the systems on a weekly basis for one thing, or another. How many operations, of any kind, still get useful work out of a desktop computer purchased in 1987?