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Re: Haynie's Garage Sale
« on: April 13, 2011, 09:00:43 PM »
I kind of had a feeling the stuff would sell, and sell well. I would love to get my hands on one of those custom chip stand-ins just to have in my hands what they had to make to develop the Amigas when the chips weren't ready but I have a feeling they will be out of my price range.

I have a C65, and sold a C65 motherboard for almost $500 quite a few years back (going on 10 years maybe).

 I also have some Amiga artifacts. One is a blank board marked A30000 Multi FPU board ZorroII which is a Zorro board with along its length two rows of spaces for 8 large square chips (which I assume are the FPUs) giving it a total of 16 this thing would have done math at a screaming rate for the time. My favorites are a C64 cartridge gutted, a A2k motherboard power connector put where the edge connector used to be, and a wire coming out the back with a 500 style power connector obviously used to power Amiga 500s from a 2000 power supply. Second is a board marked Amiga Romcard Rev 0 which is a small board with some chips, DIP switches, and a connector that comes off the back and has an L which brings it down to the bottom of the board parallel with it. Connector is about the width of the A500 expansion edge connector and the 2 ROMs are marked 2.0 but fewer pins than the Kickstart ROMs in a 3000. along one edge there are LEDs attached in a row to the board. No idea what that board did or for what.
 

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Re: Haynie's Garage Sale
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2011, 09:05:59 PM »
Oh, almost forgot, I also have a C65 Burn in board Rev 1 which has the name on it "Fuzzy Navel"
 

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Re: Haynie's Garage Sale
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2011, 01:20:57 AM »
I'll do that, I did take some better pics today of it and by the way that wasn't a typo, the card does say A30000
 

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Re: Haynie's Garage Sale
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2011, 01:30:54 PM »
I've posted pics of the Multi FPU and other weird and wonderful Amiga boards I have obtained over the years on my Photobucket site:

http://s1112.photobucket.com/albums/k492/Mayhem_Mayhbe/
 

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Re: Haynie's Garage Sale
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2011, 12:08:38 AM »
Remember, the 2000 was not designed with a 5.25" bay for a CD-ROM drive (though as with mine in the end and to now that is what it has). That bay was put there for the 5.25" floppy drive for the Bridgeboard. By this time PCs were moving to 3.5" floppy drives so even if you decided to install a bridgeboard you likely would not need the large floppy bay so it seems they decided not to let it mar the design.
PCs were getting rid of 5.25 (until optical replaced the large floppy causing the bay to stay)
The Mac II line IIRC also didn't have 5.25" bays.

Seems back then you'd be thinking they weren't that important.