Amiga A3000UX i am working on

[pwermonger]

It could happen and it did: Apple manufactures the Mac Pro in the USA (likely using parts sourced from China), which is still viable given the price of the product and the small numbers in which it sells. It's no longer a viable business model for high volume sales, though. This ship sailed long ago...

This still worked in 1988-1990, before SMD was introduced. For example, when NeXT was still in business and making their own hardware, they had their own factory in California which manufactured NeXT Cubes and NeXTSTATIONS.

Lenovo was assembling computers in the US starting in 2013 before Apple Mac Pro assembly was brought back here and they certainly are a high volume brand. Likely Apple was hoping with this carrot that the tax laws would not change so they could continue to not pay taxes on their profits using their Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich plan.

But then Commodore was also assembling here. Boards were made in Japan at the time I think, even including some of the last parts of the design to prepare the engineering design for manufacture.

[pwermonger]

Curious, what CF adapter did you get? I have a 3000UX currently just running Workbench 2.0 but have the tape drive, tape and the adf for the install. It was our 3000 at VCFE-X this year for the 30 years of Amiga display.

Want to get that 3000 setup with Unix eventually for a future VCFE but am also in a project to preserve my Amigas drives onto CF or SD. So far have had no luck with SD at all. Have two 1200s setup with CF now which are easy with IDE, as is the 4000 which I have adapters for. Hardest will be my 3000 and 1000 since my 2000 does have a Dataflyer IDE controller.