30 Year Old Amiga Still Workin' It

[tonyvdb]

Honestly, who cares if a 30+ year old Amiga is still in service. dont we all have Amiga's in service at home doing things on a regular basis? Im sure if you look hard enough you'll find many Amiga's still in a building doing some sort of work. Even with HD I would not be surprised if there is still even a Video Toaster doing some sort of behind the scenes TV production out there.

[tonyvdb]

Did you know that Newtek still honers the warrentee on those Toaster and Flyer cards. I had to get one of my cards fixed a couple years ago and they did it free of charge and even payed return shipping. When I spoke to one of the guys on the phone he said as long as they can get parts to fix them they will do it.

[tonyvdb]

Wow, I didn't know that! Is that regardless of where the owner purchased it or did it have to be purchased from Newtek? I bought my Toaster stuff from DiscreetFX including a very pricey Flyer board. Come hell or high water, I'm gonna make some sort of production with this Toaster system!!!

It did not seem to matter where you got it from. I had two systems going at one point only one of them i did buy new from Newtek the other was off ebay.
I only had to do some sort of re-flash to the board as it lost its programming or something like that. Still working great to this day.

[tonyvdb]

And I still don't have that cable that goes from the Toaster to the Flyer (which do I need to get SCSI drives working from the Flyer?). Hmmm, anyways, having fun building it!

Yes, the Flyer does use the drives differently but you can simply access those drives from the workbench screen once you put the drive devices into the dev drawer (FA1 FB2 etc...) They will show up on the workbench as drives (see my avatar for screen shot).

Your talking about that short ribbin cable that goes from the toaster card to the flyer card? or the big octapuse cable that goes from the flyer card to the drives? If its the later I have one I dont use.

[tonyvdb]

newtek officially announced they dont serivice or work on them anymore. this was about a year ago i think.

mech

Oh ok well it was a great run while it lasted

[tonyvdb]

Yes, I'm talking about the ribbon cable. But, actually I need the octopus cable too (maybe you would like to sell?). DiscreetFX told me they sent them but, Mmm, Huh, never got them.

Sure, send me a PM and let me know what you think is fair. I'm open to offers. I'm up in Canada so shipping would be a little more, maybe about $20 as I never use usps without a tracking number.