So a few years back in 2004, a customer of mine who still did some toaster work bought a bunch of used Amiga stuff. I traded him out some service for it, as he did not want to store it. There was a realllly nice Amiga 2000 with a toaster, A TBC, AD516 sound board and a Blue Ribbon sound board. It had a GVP 040 board in it. This was really the only Amiga I toyed with for a bit, as I was very busy at work. In a nutshell, I stored all the Amiga's away in my storage unit until early this year, hardly thinking of them at all. I had a 1200 at home that I had not booted in two years...
So in January I start clearing out my storage and find the Amiga parts... Hmmm... A nice A4000 in a custom tower case, and a A3000 in a custom tower case. Both work fantastic! I fitted the A3000 with the AD516 card and hooked it up in the garage to play MP3's while I am working. It has a nice Retina Z3 board for display, and a Warp Engine... The A4000 has a nice Cybergraphx 3D card and an Oktagon SCSI card (it is my main unit now)... So I have been having fun with these Amigas the past 6 weeks or so...
Today I went back to clear out more of my storage and what did I find??? ANOTHER A4000 in a tower (custom)!!!! The motherboard looks like it just came off the assembly line!
So, in the span of 6 weeks I went from one semi-working A1200 in a closet to...
A3000 Tower, two A4000 (One tower, one put back in the desktop case for space reasons), One A1200 in pieces (I keep changing out parts for fun), one really sweet A2000, an A500 up in the attic, and a unique A2200 motherboard that boots OK (Not yet in a case). Total expenditure for all this goodness? About $200 for the A1200, $250 for the )40 board in it, $250 in OS3.5 & 3.9 Disks and Kickstart 3.1 for a few boards...
And next week I have a working A1000 coming in from a guy on Ebay!
Amiga's are way too much fun!
