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Looks like NASA has gotten rid of some Amiga stuff.
« on: December 04, 2006, 05:49:04 PM »
It looks like NASA is getting rid of - or has already gotten rid of (some of?) its Amiga hardware:

http://tinyurl.com/y9svmt
http://tinyurl.com/ygmk3q

If you look in the sellers "other auctions" there is some more Amiga stuff "from the Aerospace industry".

Here is a description of Amigas at NASA in 1999:

http://www.upchug.com/AEcastro.html
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Re: Looks like NASA has gotten rid of some Amiga stuff.
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2006, 06:03:55 PM »
One of the NASA A2000s for sale seems to have a GVP 68030+SCSI+RAM card in the CPU slot.

http://tinyurl.com/y8zwn6
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=177
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Re: Looks like NASA has gotten rid of some Amiga stuff.
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2006, 06:17:38 PM »
The Advanced Amiga Analyser is a fairly well known piece of hardware.  It was advertised in the Amiga magazines in the early 1990s.

But I wish I could tell what kind of accelerator card is in that NASA A2500.  It seems to have a daughterboard attached to it via two white pin connectors on the back of the CPU card.

http://tinyurl.com/yxhlhx

It might just be a stock A2630 by Commodore....chip layout is right.  But did those have connectors on the back for a daughterboard (the BBOAH shows only the front side, where you can see solder points for those connectors)?  EDIT: apparently it does have provision for a RAM daughterboard.
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Re: Looks like NASA has gotten rid of some Amiga stuff.
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2006, 12:36:07 PM »
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Atleast one of the a2500 had a nasa sticker saying "2005", so i guess they havent been idle for that long..


Yeah, but notice those stickers say NASA 2005 INVENTORY.  That was probably the last inventory they took of all the old stored gear in order to sell it as a lot to the surplus company (that's now selling it on Ebay).
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