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Offline psxphill

Re: What is the most rare Amiga
« on: August 06, 2012, 04:11:00 PM »
Quote from: shaf;702498
The Initial A2000 had a unique CPU Slot and was more Similar to the A1000 Board than the Later A2000 Boards. I only ever saw 1 unit.

The cpu slot was pretty much the same, however it couldn't disable the 68000 so you had to physically remove the chip from the motherboard.
 
The video slot was different.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: What is the most rare Amiga
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2012, 04:09:17 PM »
Quote from: spaceman88;702503
There was also the A2200 ( a CD32 motherboard with an expansion board for Zorro cards etc. in a desktop box). It was more of a prototype, I remember seeing an ad for it in an Amiga magazine, but I don't know if any were actually sold to the public.

There are two A2200's. The official one that were designed by commodore but never produced, http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/a2200.html
 
And something that could have been a CD32 motherboard in a case with an expansion board http://www.thecryptmag.com/Online/29/TheForgottenAmiga.html http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=19, the twice the speed of an a1200 claim is probably because it came with some fast ram. The 7 other slots probably zorro ii/iii is wrong, there are 7 slots, 4 PC ISA slots, 1 a1200 cpu slot, a slot for a 486 card and a future expansion slot. Whether you could use the ISA slots without the 486 card is anyones guess. It's no more an Amiga than the checkmate digital 1500 or the bodega bay.
 
An NTSC CD32 or a commodore badged A4000T is probably the rarest machine that went into production.
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Offline psxphill

Re: What is the most rare Amiga
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2012, 06:47:55 PM »
Quote from: Buzzfuzz;702623
Dave Haynie is the only one I think.

Unfinished prototypes are tricky, if you include those then the rarest amiga will be one we don't know about.
 
The A2000 revision 5 is very rare, estimated as 5 boards produced.
 
"While there are many Amiga 2000s in the world, the Rev 5 is extremely rare. As far as I know, only about five boards were made. The purpose of the Rev 5 board was simply to add higher density memory to the Amiga 2000. The original design used sixteen memories for a bank of memory, this design used four (there are two banks). This was the last Amiga 2000 motherboard I had all that much to do with..
At the time, the Rev 4.x was in production, and the new board was desired for new production, as the price crossover from the 256K x 1 to the 256K x 4 memories had been reached. However, the Rev 5 board was completed ahead of the need for it. So the PCB guys did some additional cleanup work on the design, and I think the FCC people got involved, too. Regardless, the resulting Rev 6 motherboards were plagued with problems (in fairness, some were due to the switchover to a 68000 with faster signals, that was also noisier). - Dave Haynie"
 
 
While A3000+ was estimated as 50 produced, however the majority were revision 2 boards (renamed AA3000). How many revision 0 & 1 boards were produced is unknown & how many of each remain is another thing altogether.
 
"Rev 0 (A3000+, Most components were socketed)
Rev 1 (A3000+, Completed audio sub-system, most components surface mounted)
Rev 2 (AA300)"
 
Revision 0, 1, 2, 4 & 7 of the A500 are unknown but they probably existed
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