Amiga 3500

[mjg59]

T3000 wrote:
I wonder what differences internally, besides the drive bay placements, that this machine sports?

Almost none. The motherboard is laid out slightly differently - it's missing the CD audio mixing header, and it doesn't have any DIP sockets for RAM, only ZIP. I've had one since 1995 or so, with the previous owner being a German developer. Coincidentally, mine's running AMIX 2.03 at the moment...

The 3500 is actually just an early 3000T, rather than anything special. Revisions 1 and 2 of the 3000T board were silkscreened 3500, with the name change happening some time after that.

[mjg59]

Actually, looking more closely, this is clearly a slightly later model than mine. The 3500 case was "borrowed" from one of Commodore's PCs at the time (possibly why there's that strange square bit on the frontplate next to the 3500 label - the PC badge would probably have fitted there), and mine has a backplate without any labels. It's actually nice to see them marked in something other than pen...

Oh, and mine has a blue motherboard, too. Different anti-corrosion, I guess.