Really wanted one back in the day, but couldn't afford it.
When I got my first Amiga, it was the A500..
Always wanted the A1000 tho, and finally got one a year or so ago..
Pretty beat up.. It needs lots of TLC...
It came with an Insider II with an extra 1.5M FAST RAM (and the extra 256k front RAM).
Unfortunately, the internal floppy drive was fairly unhappy.
Fortunately, a drive from an external A1010 fit nicely.
Unfortunately, it fit in such a way that the Insider II no longer would fit over the CPU.
Fortunately, I got a tomthul 4M FAST RAM expansion that DOES fit. ;-)
So, now I have a mostly happy A1000 with 4M fast and a sidecar (again tomthul) dual IDE/CF card hard drive setup. (2 CF cards, the first is Workbench and Data and the second is a FAT32 card)
Why "mostly happy?" Well, this A1000 has had a good, but hard life..
The keyboard mostly works. Caps lock doesn't (it does flash when booting). Most keys are much better than when I first got it..
The RCA audio jacks need to be replaced (does anyone know if there are part numbers I can use to find those?? Are they standard??).
The only drawback I see to the A1000, compared to the A500 is CHIP RAM.
It's 512k and that's it. It's relatively easy to get an A500 to have more CHIP.
Other than that, I much prefer the A1000's look and feel.
And that keyboard cubby? Awesome!!!
desiv
