For me the timing of this post is also perfect, as I just picked up my
first ever A1K last weekend. If anyone wants to sneak a peek,
here are some pictures :
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album-7INT7VO8Before I got the Miggy, seller told me it didn't have a memory upgrade
to 512K (I posted also on the forum here to find out about the price of
such an upgrade and was bidding on a Dutch variant of Ebay for a box
containing 4(!) such upgrades but the price went too high imho so I pulled
out. Imagine my surprise when on opening it up I found the upgrade
installed and working
This particular A1K has a German layout keyboard so I imagine that's where
the original owner once purchased it (historically for Dutch people consumer
electronics were a lot cheaper there).
Unfortunately a lot of yellowing, so hints and tips on how to best tackle that are welcome (Retr0Bright?) or perhaps I should just spray paint it white.....
I am considering some of the Indie upgrades out there like the kickrom conversion or the 4mb/Ide upgrade by TomThule if I can find one (just registered on AmiBay). If I can find a cheap A590 or GVP somewhere that
may also work but I like the current sleek slim look
Eventually I would like to have some SD cards in there.
Back to the real thread - never owned an A1000. My brother and myself went through an Atari 800 XL (I think) a C64 and then my brother got an A500.
He new a guy in the same town with an A1K tricked out with a sidecar though.
We used the Amiga a lot for gaming, for schoolwork I eventually got into inferior PC's and went through the whole x86 range. Eventually played with a NeXT machine and got into Mac's. Approx 9 yrs ago I had a A2000 that I bought for kicks and expanded out. When it died I sold the bits and pieces
and just played around with WinUAE etc. I have been following the Amiga scene through the whole QNX/Gateway story, the Bill McEwen story and probably visit Amiga.org once every week at minimum.
And now I have an actual hardware project once more
