A long shot, I know, but years ago (1992) I traded my Amiga 1000 system to someone in the Seattle area for a 386SX PC. I've kind of been wondering what happened to it ever since. It was a very unusual Amiga 1000. If you'd seen it, you may remember it -- it was massively upgraded. More so I think than any other Amiga 1000:
The case had several holes drilled into the top, and the inside of the case had its RF shielding removed, and part of the floppy drive shielding removed, and the top plastic shell (the part with signitures) had much of its strengthening lattice structure chiseled away to make room for:
- An Expert Services's rejuvenator board
- A Spirit Insider 1.5 MB card
- A 25mhz CSA Derringer 68030 card and FPU, and RAM
- An ATOnce Plus 286 emulator
- those last 3 items were simultaneously plugged into the 68000 socket.
Also - the system had a ROM switcher installed and 1.3/2.0(I think) roms.
The system also had a custom Lucite monitor stand, suspended by steel rods or bolts and some wood, to keep the weight of the monitor off the actual computer, which could no longer support it.
The computer also had toggle switches on the back to toggle the sound filter on/off, and something else I can't recall (PAL/NTSC, or 68000/68030?)
The system also had a custom made hard drive controller - a black and beige steel box with an ISA PC MFM/RLE hard drive controller wired into it, all stuck to the expansion slot on the right side. The box had hard drive ribbon cable snaking out the top (I think) and into a huge plastic black and beige 4-bay external hard disk enclosure. The whole thing needed to be booted by using a custom floppy hard drive mountlist and controller, as the drive was a do-it-yourself kit that I suspect only a few folks ever bought. The kit and driver had "MAX" in its name somewhere.
When I traded it, it also had a HAM-E, a CDTV connected via parnet, and a Digi-View. I think I sold the HAM-E and the CDTV separately, but sent the digi-view (with camera, lights, motor, etc) with the Amiga 1000.
If anyone remembers seeing an Amiga that fits this description, I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks!
