The Amiga stuff I dug up when cleaning through our junk

[Starrfoxx]

On Monday, my wife and I needed to seriously clean out this closet we have of all the junk and other stuff in there.  My old, broken Amigas were also in there.  I opened up my old Amiga 2000 to take a look at what i had in there, because I would like to get that thing running again.  I think I found the clock battery.  There's slight leakage, but not too bad.  I had a CSA Derringer 030 accelerator on it that was plugged right into the 68000 chip slot.  I also had a MegAChip installed.  I removed the 030 accelerator and put that in a static bag.  Once i find my chip puller, I'll take out the MegAChip and the Gary chip that it's wired to.  I can replace both chips with "newer" chips and see if that allows me to get this baby started again.

I also recently aquired an A4000d expanded in a HighFlyer case.  It's got a Toaster/Flyer and I think a kitchen Sync in it too.  I was looking to see if there was an accelerator or something on there, but what i found was a "brown" square chip that said 68060 50.  It doesn't look like it's on any type of accelerator card.  I'm not quite sure if this Amiga has a 68060 on it, or maybe those are just numbers to something else.  Are 060 chips brown and sqaure?  I do know that the Amiga turns on, it just doesn't go to Workbench.  Could be a hard drive problem, I'm not sure.  It gets stucks on the 1> mark or something that looks like AmigaDOS.

Oh, I also checked the clock battery.  I'm not sure what it has, but it's a purple battery and it looks like it's in perfect shape.  The battery looks slightly different than the standard green one that my original A4000d has.

In any case, once I get this thing torn down it'll be the base for my A4000 tower project.

[Starrfoxx]

countzero wrote:
Wow. Derringer is a great piece of kit. It's a waste to use it on an A2000 though, better use it on an A500 where accelerators are more rare.

I think it's possible that I originally had it installed on my Amiga 500 long ago.  The A500 is where I started, but my memory is pretty fuzzy with all the details.  Eventually I bought an Amiga 2000, so that I could have the room to expand.  I think I moved the Derringer to the A2000 at the time.  It's the only thing that makes sense, otherwise I would've just gotten an accelerator for the CPU slot.

Both my A2000 and A500 are non-working.  I'm hoping to tear them both down to the bare essentials and see if I can get them working again.

[Starrfoxx]

I think I may know what is in that A4000d that I got from my friend.  It may be a Cyberstorm Mk2 or Mk3.  I think it is a Mk2, but I'll check it out later.  I was right about the chip i saw.  The 060 is a brown/square chip, and it looked like this picutre:



The computer looks like it has the CyberSCSI on it too.  I couldn't figure out what was down there (trying to look deep inside a HighFlyer 4000 is tough unless you tear it apart), but there was something towards the back of the processor card.  I know whatever was there was not on my original A4000.  After I saw this:



Then I recognized it.  That's a CyberSCSI.  Wow, and to think that my friend was going to trash this computer!  I'm glad i saved it.   :-D