my amiga 1200 was in full pc tower using a eyetech back plane kit
had squirrell scsi card before that then ran port jnr plus buffered high speed serial card
phase 5 blzzard ppc card 240 mhz 040 fpu scsi 64 meg ram
dce bvsion card
Cnet 4.60 pro bbs software running 56 k surpa enternal modem
2 lines 24 seven it ran with no probs
one day even ran ppc quake and had caller on the 68 k side
brought the blizzard card when first avaible after waiting what seemd like years after first annoucment of ppc from phase 5 wanted 060 version but there was delay on those
so was worried might miss out and settled on 040 fpu version insteed
missed out bvsion first time around so made sure agent in new zealand ordred me
dce version after phase5 got into trouble
before that my 1200 ran for years on mbx 1200 z ram card with big 340 meg western digital 3 1/2 hd shoe horned into the case
which its back to today minus the 3 1/2 drive which still going but sounds like got sand in the workings , mind you back int he
amiga club days they rekoned was lound then like plane starting up must be western digital drive thing back then ;-)
remmber thos days getting friend take amiga in his car 1084s monitor 1200 power brick external floppy then setting it up
got be expert moving it around had motor bike so wasint the go for that.
orginally brought the machine on hp in christchurch and on way home bad weather meant plane choudint fly direct to my home city
so ended up on bus and in the rush before that airport was closed the sent my new amiga to wrong city it arrived in taxi fate alot panic on my
behave ;-)
and still going , back to the future running my same bbs software.
amiga 1200 is back in its orginal casing
those where the days
blizzard ppc card sold to doctor in italy miss it heaps
oh got add this foot note sorry about novel like message
My orginal 1200 hd 21/2 40 meg drive when got home it didnt work didnt spin up so contacted commodore nz head office in auckland
after getting run around asked to speak with manager oh they said hes out playing golf .. hmmm sign things to come maybe
friend sent fax to company brought it of and like 30 mins comordore back ringing to say they have fixed soon as hehe
amazing what well worded fax can do . thanks bill t
