A1200 Disaster; Acquired A500 Instead

[CaelThunderwing]

got a rather nice message this morning from ala craigslist, dude was orginally trying to sell, but since he needs help w/ a few things, he's willin to do 30$ and intown only about 45ish mins from where i live...

my Reaction to getting this deal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8vmXrLf1U

now the hunt will be to track down an PPC Accelerator and a CF=IDE adapter/ 3.1 KS Replacement ROM for whats likely going to be its stock 1.1 or 1.2

EDIT:  See post #8
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=816182&postcount=8

for why thread is "A1200 Disaster, Acquired A500"

[CaelThunderwing]

Whelp i got it the other day finally after a few trips.. and the guy well... "Removed" one A1200 from the world. (apparently 30$ was too good to be true and did something rather unsavory to the poor thing. guess its what i get for taking a Deal too far into detroit.)

i however did for somewhat reasonable price get an A500 Motherboard Rev 5, (seller couldnt remember if they got tha Extra Ram card for the slot under the trap door or not. ) it wont arrive till the 15th but this was the image they had up:



PSU was apparently recapped and i'll be opting either the HxD USB Floppy Emulator  or if i can find someone to make the protoboard as i cant soder for %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!e, the Amiga to RPi Floppy Emulation interface (would probbly be the cheapest compare dto 80USD for the HxD Floppy emulator board)

 i think now the biggest challenge will be getting an ACA500 or i blive the Vampire board is compatible w/ the A500?