First Amiga Ever!

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Hello. Just bought my first Amiga (A4000 Desktop with Video Toaster/Flyer cards and the S-Video Card )

I just received this thing, and even without turning it on or booting it up, i'm very impressed and hooked !

I'm 22 years old--never used any Amiga systems until High School--my broadcast journalism teacher has a 4000T with the Video Toaster! That's when I was hooked--seeing animations come to life on a 25Mhz 68040 is something that still amazes me.

I am unable to use the system, as I have no way to connect my monitor. I'll be posting some monitor wanted ads, but just wanted to introduce myself.

I'm wanting to get some vintage technology so these old computers never die out. I have over 13 computers, and only 2 of them are 'new'. I also have a Macintosh Portable and a Quadra 660AV--the mac little cousin to the Amiga (the amiga is by far more powerful)

I am also interested in using OS 4 on this machine (or buying  a Micro A1) and actually using my 4000.



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By the way,

I work as a C++ programmer full time for a large pizza company, as well as designing software on my own time using C++/PHP and HTML

I bought my Toaster 4000 as a first-leap into Amiga. Sadly, I missed the high-point (parents/father was a PC/DOS person) and I didn't learn about macintosh and 68k things until grade school, and didn't collect computers until just around five years ago....I have lots of catching up to do.

Any information, Guidance would be greatly appreciated, as I try to encourage others to collect vintage computers, and try to broaden horizons of friends and family--and myself on these unique and very powerful machines.

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Battery was actually removed some time ago--I bought this as a re-conditioned and inspected machine. I believe this machine works, however I have been unable to locate a Amiga->PC video adapter for me to actually double-check the machine's working state.

I am currently bidding on an octopus cable for my 4000, as I plan to house several SCSI hard-drives in an old mini-tower PC case. What is the maximum size of partitions or drives, so I can use this to judge what quantity of drives I will need...

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As soon as I get some compiling apps going (and a monitor--which I am in the process of getting) I should be able to dive into that code.

It would be neat to have updates to the VT code for sure!