Amiga 1000 Not Booting to Workbench

[kneehighspy]

an amazing find!  around here we usually hope to find old dodge charger daytonas or superbirds in old barns, but what you found is what i would wanna find, other than a '69 charger.

not sure i would even bother with that keyboard, i would be afraid of it causing issues with the main unit.  but i would definitely remove the case and start cleaning out the system.

i think alot of us wanna see whats inside also

but otherwise, a great find!  she will clean up pretty good!  i would proudly put that old war horse on display!

i just repaired another A1000 to add to my collection and I have another one in line for repair, I love the A1000, was my first Amiga back in 1987.  you can never have too many A1000s!

good luck!

//kneehighspy

[kneehighspy]

wow! looks much better inside than I thought it would.  looks like someone replaced the original full height floppy drive with a half height drive sometime in the past.

i would try cleaning the drive head to see if that helps, but i think you mainly have a bad disk problem, the drive is probably ok.

thanks for the posts!

//kneehighspy

[kneehighspy]

Yes you can have to many A1000's because I have been trying to find a working clean one for years and everyone sucks em up to put on a shelf or store in a garage out of greedy hording issues!

hang in there bud, you will find one.  I got lucky on my last one that came with the spare motherboard, they were both listed as doa.  i bid $31 on it on ebay and won, shipping was like $14, so $45 wasnt bad.

replaced the main 256k ram in the unit, was showing main ram error, and it works fine now.  the motherboard is showing the same error, so hopefully thats all it is, but i can only start there first

you will find one tho!

//kneehighspy