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Offline kolla

Re: What is the worst thing you've done with your Amiga?
« on: January 08, 2009, 03:10:25 AM »
Not my doing, but funny still...

About 10 years ago, a guy at the university donated a couple of A2000 boxes to our computer club. These two machines had been used by the administration up to quite recently at the time, which pussles us a bit... amigas in univ administration?

When we booted them up, they came up with old 1.x workbench, and then an almost full screen window was opened and ancient MSDOS was started in it, and finally the application of the administration people had been using. We opened them up and found a couple of 8088-based cards in the zorro+isa slots. So for years and years these two poor amigas had been used for nothing than running MSDOS applications - how bad is that?! :lol:

Anyways, it turned out that these were the more or less useless german made A2000-A models, with zorro1-ish bus, odd keyboards (I suspect compatible with CDTV). They were also very yellow and greasy, probably from smoking. Soon after we got them, the PSUs died, and since they require a PSU with "tick", they ended up in the attick.
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS