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Re: Your new Amiga - what peripherals came first?
« on: December 17, 2004, 02:38:06 PM »
My peripherals have been 'adopted' by subsequent Amigas.

1) First got an Amiga 500, followed by a RAM expansion, followed by an external floppy.

2) Had an A600 for two weeks, ditched that, got a B2000. Then got a Canon BJ230 A3 bubblejet.

3) Got an A1200. Still had the printer and external floppy. First upgrade: a Microbotics 030 and a 68882 FPU. Then a Squirrel SCSI and an external 1gb SCSI drive. Finally (after years of TV use) I got a second-hand Philips monitor for the A1200.

4) Big sell. Sold it all, except the external SCSI drive and some joysticks and software, and the printer (still got it).

5) Got the A4000T and M1438s monitor and lots of upgrades:

Cyberstorm MK II 060
Lola 2000 Genlock
Vidi 24 RT Pro digitizer
Technosound Turbo II audio digitizer
CD-Rewriter (that went into an external case)
External SCSI Zip 100
CyberSCSI module for MKII

And finally, recently, I got the Big Three:

DKB3128 (128mb on it now)
PIV (with Concierto and Paloma)
PPC card (604e/233, 060)

and spares:

030 CPU card for testing
AT PSU (new old stock, bought for £6)
A2000 Keyboard

My next purchases:

Spare floppy (HD preferred)
Mouse adapter (so I can use PC mouse from early-startup)
Pablo card (if I can find it, for PIV)
PPC Cybervision (as a spare GFX card, if it comes up reasonable price)

I also want to design a brand-new case, because mine is dented, has a few scratches underneath, and the bezel is yellowed. Also, the A4000T is not a nice case to open and is very heavy. I'm sure I can design a better one and just get the backplane laser cut to my specs.
 

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Re: Your new Amiga - what peripherals came first?
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2004, 09:49:09 AM »
@ Hyperspeed

Yup, I was in a state of near-arousal when I first opened up the A4000T box back in 1996. I was also excited about having the 1438s multisynch monitor.

And I have to agree about the Wizard mouse. I have had mine since 1996 and it is excellent. The middle button could also do something in Brilliance (swap between main and buffer?) IIRC.