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Finally after 10 years...
« on: February 16, 2008, 07:19:50 AM »
I Finally managed to replace my old 2000 :)


...of course it's coming with no software other than Workbench - a 'well loved keyboard' but I guess that's gonna be half the fun :)
 

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Re: Finally after 10 years...
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2008, 07:52:55 AM »
Once it arrives I surely will!  Going to be mailing off the check tomorrow. With shipping and handling it's going to be around 150 bucks.. not bad as it includes monitor, hd, twin floppies, keyboard and mouse.

A slight correction though - after I thought about it, I left my old 2000 behind in Australia in 1997 - so I guess it's been nearly 11 years! I bought that one just after then came out in 1987.  I've kept up though - Played with UAE on linux, and at one stage had an Amithlon box going (till the hardware gave in, not had much luck finding older parts to make a new one).

So it's going to be a little adventure getting software across to it.  Atm I'm thinking of doing it by CD. I put a scsii CD ROM in my old system, shouldn't be that hard to track one down that's to spec (I hope).

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Re: Finally after 10 years...
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2008, 04:59:30 AM »
The 2000 has a scsi controller and HD on board already, but I know an accelerator is a great investment. My original one had one an 030 in it.  As fate would have it - the very one my old machine had just came up on ebay a couple of hours ago:  the GVP G-Force 030.. at just over 80 bucks I just couldn't resist picking it up as well.

030 @ 25mhz - scsi controller - populated with 5 megs - and has the 68882 math co-pro.. also has the install disk, which at this point is a HUGE must.

After a decade of super high prices and constantly being sniped, it looks like everything is coming together at last.





 

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Re: Finally after 10 years...
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2008, 05:06:21 AM »
@Dan

hahah - would I be correct in assuming your pockets just got heavier ;)

As for transferring - It's going to be a 'chicken or the egg' type problem I guess.  If Cross Dos is already on there then all my problems are solved..  I just realized that it probably won't be able to read a CD just after installing one, which leaves me with trying to find Cross Dos on an Amiga formatted disk I guess.

I'll have to wait to see what I got when it arrives.
 

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Re: Finally after 10 years...
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2008, 12:48:53 AM »
GVP 030 combo board arrived today, and KS 3.1 Rom. I got confirmation that the machine to put them in is on it's way... only one more week to wait!