Wanted - Hen's Teeth ?

[danbeaver]

Er, neither. I have a ton of Amiga mice since I only use optical. I have a keyboard for each Amiga, plus one I bought in need of repair.

Are you looking for these?

[danbeaver]

@dan & mike...what do you guys feel is a fair price for an A2000HD with no kb or mouse that was booting but won't boot now, because that is what I am receiving tomorrow via ups. I bought it because there was no nice big box 2000's at the time that were cheaper.

I paid $150  incl s&H, but it feels like too much for the unit, more like 100 s&h it should have been I think.

One of the things I spose that got me was the case condition...immaculate.

Is it an otherwise working A2000?  When you say it doesn't boot, is that from the floppy, or a hard drive.  If it boot from a floppy, then $150 is good, $200 should boot from an A2091 and crappy hard drive.  For $250 you can buy my refurbed A2000 with A2091 + 2 MB RAM/1 GB HDD, Indivision ECS, PAMC-2000 14 MHz 68000 w/ 68881 FPU, CDROM, mouse and keyboard [3.1 ROM & WorkBench w/ disks} (you would have to add shipping, but no fees).  

If you just need a mechanical Amiga mouse, I'll give you one free.

[danbeaver]

It would hardly be  Retargetable Graphics Board if it didn't "do" WorkBench; the OpalVision is sometimes called RTG by eBay sellers, but they lie. Even the Domino and Retina boards do menus, so WikiPedia is wrong. There were some very expensive Targa boards early on that were rare and seemed hand-built, but like the OpalVision, they were Graphic Output boards and not for RTG.

[danbeaver]

If you want a Cherry Keyboard (red A's) I'll sell you mine cheap; that's because it is the only keyboard that I have malfunctioning (no it does not need cleaning, the electronics are buggered up).  So it is rare on two points: hard to find and some keys don't work despite being cleaned.

[danbeaver]

I guess I meant screen dragging, not familiar with all the terminology yet

Got my A2000HD yesterday in the mail, along with MINT manuals. Hopefully runnin' soon. Gonna open 'er cover later today.

Oh, screen dragging!  Only a few early boards like the Retina won't do that. The software was a bit dodgy. I think anything supported by CGX or P96 will do screen dragging.

I now personally believe that those FPGA based devices are essentially RTG "boards" too -- Indivision AGA MKII and the "coming to a supermarket near you," ScanJuggler. While they don't use classic GPU's, they function to do thing bigger, better and faster than their native Amiga counterparts. When you a program an FPGA to become a CPU and move colors and form images, I think one IS Retargeting native Graphics at higher resolutions and colors just like the Big Boys.

[danbeaver]

I wasn't looking for it, just saw it. Hang onto it, when I get familiar with this hardware and I know enough, I'll try to fix it. went for my AASET way back and want to get into repair to help ppl out.

Dude, Retro Computing is all about repair!  It is about soldering, metal working, hot glue guns, programming EPROM's, writing scripts, screwing with CLI commands to patch software, Retr0Briting plastics, software and manual searches (then installation, archive formation, backup, and resurrection), and dern'd near everything except wood working (yet).  Add to that refurbishing were you have to locate parts made so long ago that Dinosaurs roamed the earth at the time (or was that a IBM model 5150?).

[danbeaver]

Nope, Zip RAM, blood loss, bandages covering your hands, D800 diode concerns, how to not plug in the wrong cable to two identical ports next to each other; these are all part of the A3000 question: "How can Commodore design a great looking computer that you immediately hate on e the cover is removed?"  And who puts a frigging push rod in a case as a way to turn on a PSU?

[danbeaver]

These dudes ? Do I get a sticker ?

Ug!  A PS/2; notable for putting a 386Sx with a 16-bit data path on a 32-bit bus (Microchannel).  Also known as changing the spin from  Personal Computer (1 beige box) to a Personal System (beige box, beige printer and beige world); classic IBM. How many IBM salesmen does it take to change a lightbulb?  Just one; he simply changes the definition of darkness, then goes on site to upgrade the customer.

[danbeaver]

Royalcrown

AVOID AMIBAY WHATEVER YOU DO. The guys who run this site are fascists.

You are confusing a political paradigm from the mid-twentieth century with a bunch of coprophagic, Supratentorially synaptopenic narcissists.