I won an a4000 csppc auction! :)

[arnljot]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEBTOX:IT&item=160195063445&_trksid=p3984.cTODAY.m238.lVI

Yay, I'm the proud owner soon as I won this auction!

[arnljot]

@Krusher
It's not going to be a museum piece. I have a lot of boxes. All raging from pcs, ps3, other amigas and now an a4000!

I consider myself a dedicated amiga lover. And having regretted selling my amiga 4000 back in 1999 (or 98) I've wanted one again ever since.

Now I got the chance. So I payed what the asking price was, because I can afford it. I'm 31, have a very nice job and pay my bills on time.

@jimbo100
Well, the same reply goes here. I really wanted it. And others wanted it almost as much as me.

@the rest of the forum
Yeah, it wasn't super cheap. But now I've got what I've wanted for so long!

So thank you to all who've been congratulating me. It'll be great to get to using a real amiga with some "omph!" compared to my stock a1200 and a500

[arnljot]

My "last" amiga back in the previous century was:
Amiga 4000
CS PPC 060 + 233mhz
CVPPC
Buddha IDE + some IDE disks
Quantum 9GB UW SCSI
Plextor SCSI2 cd burner
Prelude ZII sound board
Ariadne Network card
HyperCOM Serial/Paralell card Card

I now have:
A PicassoIV in waiting
My old hacked A4000 motherboard
A Blizzard 4030@50mhz with FPU
Some memory
My Prelude sound card
A 2065 network card
An Amiga500 with extra memory
An Amiga1200 (stock)
A Amiga1200 motherboard (bust)
++ misc

I love all that stuff. And if something starts to collect dust, I'll do the right thing: First offer it here, then if there is no sale put it on ebay.

When I get my new Amiga4000 I'll start looking into getting serious about C++, and do some simple hobby projects. I have nothing particular in mind atm.

[arnljot]

da9000 wrote:
@arnljot:

What sort of "hacked A4000 motherboard" do you have? Anything interesting you wanna share?

I got this guy in Bergen/Norway back in 97 to desolder most of the IO ports from the motherboard, and solder the sockets on flat cables (I'll post a pic later).

I had this done so that I could fit it in a PC case I found.

[arnljot]

I'm a good ebayer and contacted the guy early in the beginning of the aution and discussed a few things. IE shipping to Norway etc.

Thursdsay the bid was at €460, and I put in my €860 bid which was pushed up tp €840 by another bidder.

@everyone
I agree that it's risky to pay so much for equipment that is more than 15 years old, and may break at any moment. And I probably should have spent them on something "smart".

But I think this will be smart, I won't be doing any audio prosject or ray tracing or anything artistic. But I will look into learning how to do OS3x and OS4 c++ coding with it. That is my aspiration as stated earlier.

Also about the sellers rating. Yes, he's new. But it's the Amiga sellers with loads of feedback and items which may be the ones which are most damaging to the amiga community. Since some of them are hoarders who buy cheap and sell expensive. This is a guy who is leaving the amiga, and selling it to a new good home.

So to the one who said I could take a hammer to the CSPPC if I liked... I guess you are right, but that is still sacreligious!!

About Amiga: I'm not religious, but I'm fanatical

[arnljot]

Well

I've agreed with the seller on local picup.

And I've bought myself plane tickes and a hotel room. So I will stay from friday till saturday there.

If anyone knows of Amiga worthy sites in Eindhoven or Amsterdam please let me know!

But I will arrive late friday (18:50 at Schiphol) and leave early on saturday (17:15)

And the trainride from Amsterdam to Eindhoven is 90 minutes each way.

I'll bring my camera, and document the adoption

[arnljot]

Krusher wrote:
It only takes about 17 minutes from and to Schiphol Airport <=> Amsterdam Central Station.

Have a good stay!

My mistake, I meant Amsterdam <->Eindhoven

Will fix it in my post

[arnljot]

Krusher wrote:
 :-D Too bad it's not an Amiga laptop you're getting  :lol:
Anyway make shure it's packaged good and sturdy, those guys at luggage at airports aren't exactly people you want to handle your computer....

I was planning on bringing antistatic bags and cardboard boxes with foam to take the PPC and PicassoIV as carry on, and only have the box, HD and Motherboard etc in my checked in bagage.

This way I hope to minimize risk.

[arnljot]

Here is a pic of my old card, someone asked which "hacks" I'd done to it.


another pic

last pic

[arnljot]

Okay, I'm now at an internet cafe in Eindhoven in the Netherlands (.nl)

I have my amiga with me, and it's really well packaged and the picassoiv, drives and csppc is in my carry on luggage.

Eric turned out as I sucpected to be a really cool and decent guy.

Now I'm just waiting for the train to take me to Sciphol so that I can get back to Oslo and set up this baby!

[arnljot]

[color=ff0000]YAY IT BOOTED![/color][/b]

Now ofcourse it SFS file system {bleep}es about something being wrong with "DH6:" on "BakBench".

So I guess the UltraWide SCSI drive (68 pins) is okay, and it's the FastSCSI drive (50 pins) which is botched.

The way it's set up is so that:
[uw scsi]<-->[CS STORM]<--->[FastSCSI HD]<---->[CDROM]

TODO:
1) Get One nice working SCSI HD
2) Buy some seriously shorter SCSI cables (there is almost 2 meters of scsi cables inside the poor litle box!
3)Find someone who will sell or build me a NoIDE hack
Get a BUI Transiver for my network card, or buy a new from AmiKit
4) Insert my Prelude soundcard and start enjoying!

And under

[arnljot]

Yes, I think so.

But first I have some hurdles to cross. Get rid of the FastSCSI2 HD which is broken, and find another way to activly terminate the FastSCSI end (seems like the Plextor CDROM is only passive termination).

Then I have to merge the dutch keyboard with my norwegian keyboard since SHIFT, E and C doesn't work, and I seems really dodgy (Have to holdt it in long before I get the letter I.)

And also I have a lot of other questions for the good folks of a.org which I need sorted out first