Lucky Day!!!!

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OMG I'm so happy!  I've had one hell of a lucky day!  Full story here on the webpage I just whipped up about it!

http://www.theramp.net/vektre/

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adolescent wrote:
Nice find.  Some good stuff in there.  Make sure to check the A3000 battery...  

Pure luck! It was on a whim I decided to pull into the new goodwill store here in town!  Right place at the right time!

I'm going through and testing them one at a time starting tomorrow after work, plucking out the batteries as I go.

I also got a 1084S monitor and some weird external scsi hdd box.  The lady at the library really had no idea she had one of the 2500s set up in the library itself with a mag vga monitor (connected to nothing) and the mouse/joystick switcher and that weird 3000 mouse, and the 3000's tape drive.  She said take it all because if I didn't she was going to donate it to the high school for them to rip up and use for soldering practice!!  :-o  :-o  :-o NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Must have been someone else's karma because I never get this lucky LOL

I tried out the A3000UX.  It boots fine, the onboard flicker fixer looked great on my pc monitor, but it has an installation of Unix on it.  I turned it on, the hdd clicked a bit then came up to some text screen with a font that looks like topaz 8 from kickstart 1.x.  said something about structures on the disk, then reset itself and came back faster  this time, but then prompted for a login and password.  Who knows what they are!  I'm not going to mess with it for a while, I'll go through the A2500s first and see what they have.

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Cass wrote:

Don't format the HD, it's a pity to lose the rare AMIX. Buy a new one instead. The A3000UX is a collector's item.

No problem! It's an old quantum 210S scsi drive so I'd rather replace it anyway.  Somehow when I booted it up I thought to myself that if I formatted this drive I would feel some kind of guilt.  Glad I didn't bother with it then!

Ryu wrote:

On another note, the site detailing your find seems to either be a bit old, or you were lost in a timewarp when you wrote it

"Amiga Rescue March 2003!"

Isnt it 2004?

Fixed hehehe.  It's my brain that was in a warp!  I just found all that stuff last night so my head was buzzing  :lol:

MrZammler

Please!! Do not wipe out that A3000UX disk!! AMIX installations are rare!! Could we have some photos of the machine booting to AMIX?

Hmm give me a few minutes I have a still pic I can post in the images section.  Tonight after work I will put a video (dont expect hollywood results hehe) on my site of the 3000UX booting up for you.

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Counting all of these Amigas plus the ones I already own, that makes 8 Amigas and there is no way I can keep them all.  I'm going to have to sell a lot of them but I will have to go through them first and make sure they work.  It might be a while since I don't get much time outside of work to do anything during the week.

btw, this Jamiroquai talk is just virtual insanity!  :lol:

ok that was bad hehe

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Ok lads and lasses, I tested the first A2500. The one I tested had cygnus ed among other business related programs installed.  It also had an A2630 card, 1MB Chip and 6MB Fast. Oddly, the HDD controller card just said A209.. does that mean 2090?  My other A2000 has an A2091 and it looks different entirely.  The HDD is a quantum 40MB.  It also has a 286 bridgeboard installed plus a 3Com 8-bit ISA 10 base-T card.  I have no idea how to access the bridgeboard.  This is the A2500 with the black FDD.  Someone must have upgraded the 5.25" drive in that one.  Battery has been pulled from that guy.  I used it for about a half an hour.  Oddly, I had to use my own 1084 monitor since the 1084S monitor I got with the system had a strange video-in type jack, which resembled a Big Din connector.  It has a lot more switches and connector than my 1084.  Damn I'm glad I have all of you because I have never seen a lot of this stuff! :-)

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Vincent wrote:
The A2090.

Is that what your A209.. looks like?

Hmm actually no, the card has a 50 pin SCSI port, a molex power connector, and a spot to place the HDD right on the card like the 2091 does... hehe  I'll dismount the HDD tonight and see what is written on the board under it.  Just looking on the BBoAH it doesn't look much like the 2091 either.  I will check for sure tonight.

Anyway I added a video to my site of the 3000UX booting.. well it was checking the drive for errors and my camera ran out of ram LOL   http://www.theramp.net/vektre