Amiga 3500

[Jeff]

I'm sure you have all probably seen this already, but it's even worth a second look.

http://gallery.s00p.com/a3500

I hope the owner gets it up and running.  Wouldn't it be cool if some long lost C= info was hiding on it all this time:-)?

Jeff

[Crusher]

*drool*  :-)

[TjLaZer]

Jeff very cool!  I have a 3000T too and the 3500 seems better as it has two 5.25" bays at the top and two 3.5" open bays, not the 3000 style openings which are a pain as all you can install is a 3000 floppy.  I do have two HD floppy drives in mine though.  I also installed a Cyberstorm MKII 060 and CV64 card, 18GB SCSI HD and Ethernet card, along with a Sony 17" monitor for surfing A.org!

http://www.vintagecomputercafe.com/mycomputers/Amiga_3000T_1.jpg
http://www.vintagecomputercafe.com/mycomputers/Amiga_3000T_2.jpg

[T3000]

[B00tDisk]

This is a vital piece of C= history.  I sincerely hope the owner will consider taking photographs of the system components to send to amiga-hardware.com; I also hope the system has some "long lost" stuff on it (AAA designs, anyone? ;-) )

[mjg59]

T3000 wrote:
I wonder what differences internally, besides the drive bay placements, that this machine sports?

Almost none. The motherboard is laid out slightly differently - it's missing the CD audio mixing header, and it doesn't have any DIP sockets for RAM, only ZIP. I've had one since 1995 or so, with the previous owner being a German developer. Coincidentally, mine's running AMIX 2.03 at the moment...

The 3500 is actually just an early 3000T, rather than anything special. Revisions 1 and 2 of the 3000T board were silkscreened 3500, with the name change happening some time after that.

[Jeff]

I agree.  Even if it's not anything really important it is a part of C= history that will be lost if not properly taken care of, and there is so little left.

Some detective and recovery work should carefully be done on all of the systems drives as well.

Jeff

[mjg59]

Actually, looking more closely, this is clearly a slightly later model than mine. The 3500 case was "borrowed" from one of Commodore's PCs at the time (possibly why there's that strange square bit on the frontplate next to the 3500 label - the PC badge would probably have fitted there), and mine has a backplate without any labels. It's actually nice to see them marked in something other than pen...

Oh, and mine has a blue motherboard, too. Different anti-corrosion, I guess.

[Minion]

Thats a cool bit of hardware I wouldn;t mind having round the house.
I'd never switch it on mind as I would be fearfull of breaking it.  I wonder how many were made?

[B00tDisk]

According to http://www.amiga-hardware.com/a3500t.html , the hardware isn't that special.

However, that said, I'm dying to know what might be on those hard drives!  I mean, for heaven's sake if nothing else find someone with a working AMIX box (there's a couple of folks 'round here) and get the system working and have a peek!  (Maybe they can find out why I never got my Wizard of Wor cartridge I was supposed to have when my folks bought me my C64 in '84! )