I bought my first Amiga in 1986. It was an Amiga 1000. Shortly after buying it I did a hardware hack that that involved soldering memory chips together and then piggybacking them on the onboard 256k memory. It added 512k of memory for a total of 1meg with the upfront 256 memory expansion. It caused me a devil of a time for about 3 months until I tracked down ONE badly soldered leg. After that is was rock solid. Later I added 1.3 kickstart ROM to it to get rid of the bootdisk. Then added an accelerator that kicked it up all the way to 14mhz. OOH!
Later I added a Microbotics 2 meg expansion on the expansion port. I still have it and it's up and running downstairs in the basement.
I don't understand how Commodore could have gone broke with all the money I spent with them!!
Here is the complete list of computers I bought:
Commodore Vic 20
with tape drive
Commodore C64
with 2x 1541 floppy drives, Commodore's 6 pin dot matrix printer, Commodore Monitor (forget the model, something like 1702 or something)
Commodore SX64
Commodore C128
with 2x 1571 disk drives, Commodore monitor
Amiga 1000
with 256k memory expansion, 1010 external floppy, 1080 monitor and C1300 genlock
Amiga 2000
with 1084 monitor
CDTV
with external floppy, scsi harddrive, kickstart switcher (1.3 and 2.04), internal genlock and 020 accelerator
Amiga 3000
Amiga 4000 x 2
That's not to mention workbench 2, 3.0 and 3.1 (with roms of course) plus a TON of boards, 8up memory expansion, Megachip 2 meg Agnus, GVP 030 accelerator, 2 GVP TBCPlus, Video Toaster, Picasso II, Picasso IV, GVP Spectrum, Cyberstorm MkII 060, Warp 040, Xsurf, Highway USB and on and on and on.......
NOW how COULD they have gone broke!
The A1000, CDTV, A3000 and both A4000's are still running beside each other in the basement. (All stuffed with all sorts of various boards). No reason I guess but it's hard to let go
Upstairs next to my AMD Windoze machine is an AmigaOne, you'd think somewhere along the line I would learn wouldn't ya?
