FS: GVP TekMagic 060 w/ 128MB RAM for Commodore Amiga 2000

[nishtek]

2.1gb Hard Disk with working A2000 installation included. So you won't need to worry about setting your amiga 2000.  plug'n'play.
Why am I selling this?  I have one already no need for 2nd one.
This is hard to find accelerator board.  SERIOUS offers please.

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[nishtek]

In effort to add direction to offers, I'd like to say that this card:
- is 100% fully functional and comes with hard disk with "stable installation".
- it originally cost $600-700.
Softhut another dealer has it listed for
$550 plus $50 for memory.
http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/hardware/accelerators/gvp_tekmagic.html&cart_id=52674
another amiga.org user asked $500 for it few weeks ago:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37021

it compares to no card except for Blizzard 060.  
I owned CBM 68030, GVP030, GVP040 for a long time and must say this is the only really fast amiga board (also the only one that makes surfing durable) besides Blizzard 060 which matches it.  I would say though that Tekmagic 060 seems faster to me.

The cards worth today are as follows (as a guide):
CBM 68030 - $80-120
GVP 68030 with 16mb RAM - $120-$160
Fusion Forty 68040 - $100-$140
GVP 68040 with 16mb RAM - $170-$220
Phase5/DCE 68060 with 128 RAM - seen it at $450 to $600. key is whenever it was ever seen.  
TekMagic 060 with 128 RAM

all in my/our humble opinion.

[nishtek]

just to clearify for those that don't know this isn't related to FUSION FORTY (040 based) card.  The TekMagic 060 isn't buggy and does not require GVP GURU rom.  

[nishtek]

Not really considering this aging technology, especially the other TekMagic 060 board i use regularly has been running ok for the last 10 years.
The TekMagic 060 is one of its kind.  There isn't too many 68060 boards around.  I consider this board to be the best for  a2000, the Phase5/DCE is 2nd, imho.
$300 would be for gvp 68040 with 16mb gvp custom RAM.
anyway, please, do not be offended, i'll simply keep it for now.  Our season for giving things away is in December - Christmas time! :-D

[nishtek]

it has Fast SCSI 2 controller (53C710), with 10 MB/s max transfer speed.  50 pin internal header and 50 pin external high density connector.  128 MB RAM and 68060 at 50 mhz.
Maximum you can go with A2000.  Other Amigas take PPC cars.

[nishtek]

pyrre wrote:

How much for BUGGY fusion forty?

I'm not selling just yet. Got to see if i can get it working properly first..

may want to uprade to latest ROMS & software.
http://www.vintagecomputercafe.com/amigafusionfortyaccelerator.htm

[nishtek]

there.  There was one board that I consider better.  It was called the DKB Wildfire and had an 060/50MHz, 128mb RAM possible AND it had an onboard NIC and local PCI bus connection/connector.  You can see it here, under A2000 accelerators.

Thanks.  I think you may be right about it.  I looked over the specs, and they seem impressive.  The SCSI-2 speed matches the TekMagic060, but the Wildfire has the ethernet on board.  Tough to beat that RJ45 plug, when we all pay extra for ethernet zorro2 cards.  In all the years with amiga, I never had the opportunity to work with the Wildfire.

[nishtek]

I wonder if anyone here or other amiga forums ever used those pci expansions for inferno  :-?  :idea:

[nishtek]

Robert17 wrote:
When I first got my Tekmagic I had trouble finding an A2000 motherboard revision it would work with. Also, the Temagic
The Tekmagic is a great card if you've got the right revision motherboard though  :-)  
Robert

Yep, some A2000 have bus noise which TekMagic won't like.
Dunno about problems finding the right mobo, but all 4 of my A2000 revision 6.2 motherboards "like" the TekMagic.  It could be luck or hardware usually likes me ;-)