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The best birthday present ever....
« on: November 18, 2009, 10:00:59 AM »
Its a long story....

A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend of mine and he casually said that he had an A4000 and 10 years ago he sold it to a local TV station to which he gave me the name (lets call this A). I knew a guy who works with me that used to work with TV station 'A' and I asked him if there could be a possibility that the A4000 was still there, and he promptly phoned an ex-colleague to check for me - the reply was that they would get back to me.

Yesterday, on my birthday I get a phone call from my workmate that he is driving to my house with a big-ass tower. It turned out to be an Amiga 4000T, which was just saved from the junkyard. The outer case while in general good condition has a few scratches and the door in front is gone.

I opened it up to take a peek, inside is still very clean, looks brand new, with a big surprise... it has a Cyberstorm MK2 060 processor with 32Megs on board. There are no zorroboards, there is a SCSI HDD (Seagate, 1gb) and no CD drive. Obviously its getting a few upgrades now, namely a graphics card/scandoubler and network card.

I took a photo of the tower to my friend who originally owned it, expecting him to tell me "I remember that from somewhere!" only to get a reply that it was not his A4000. I told him I got it from TV Station 'A', which you told me you sold it to..... only to find out that he actually sold the A4000 (he now tells me it was a 4000D) to a DIFFERENT TV station (B) and it was all a mistake.

I think I've been very, very, very lucky :)


PS. No, I am not going to phone TV Station B to enquire about the 4000D :)
 

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Re: The best birthday present ever....
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2009, 11:08:00 AM »
Thanks thanks thanks :)

Thats enough Amiga hunting for me right now! :)
 

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Re: The best birthday present ever....
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2009, 11:31:58 AM »
I still cannot believe it :)
 

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Re: The best birthday present ever....
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2009, 12:35:36 PM »
Yes, switched it on got a picture and everything. I want to install a SCSI CDROM on it and upgrade to OS3.9. I have also ordered a CF to IDE adapter which can be inserted into one of the backplates on the, er, back.

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Today I will give it a good cleaning on the case (cant do miracles though) and maybe take  few piccies.
 

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Re: The best birthday present ever....
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2009, 02:54:30 PM »
The floppy drive is borked :(

I tried reading a few amiga floppies and after some grinding all are reported as NDOS. Then I tried formatting another disk and it was still unreadable.

Good thing I have another A4000 floppy drive coming my way in post :)
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Re: The best birthday present ever....
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2009, 03:14:58 PM »
Well, worse come to the worse I buy a brand new floppy drive modified to work with Amiga.
 

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Re: The best birthday present ever....
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2009, 03:49:55 PM »
Ok floppy works... (I ejected floppies a few times and it started working again :) )
 

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Re: The best birthday present ever....
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2009, 04:08:14 PM »
BTW, whats the best RTG/Scandoubler solution for this machine (other than Picasso IV). It seems Indivision is incompatible with this 4000 revision.