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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #14 from previous page: May 22, 2009, 04:09:31 PM »
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Anyway, I thought I'd share this interesting find with you and congratulate you all on the awesome new A.Org :drink:


Very nice! I must take some pictures of my A500, I think. Boxed Amigas are always nice ;)

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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2009, 04:34:46 PM »
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She could only say that it belonged to her son who had emigrated and coudn't take it with him.


I can't help imagining her son coming back after umpti years... "You did what?!!"  :laughing:
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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2009, 04:39:58 PM »
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I can't help imagining her son coming back after umpti years... "You did what?!!"  :laughing:


I was thinking the exact same thing!

Infact, being argumentative and trolling one could say that you've bought stolen property :-) LOL
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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2009, 06:53:51 PM »
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Commodore went from red to green power led's in their A2000 when the Rev 6 A2000 was introduced. Same happened with the A500. Red power led usually means you have a rare rev 3 (the one with the C= left key instead om Amiga key) or a rev 5. Rev 6a machines usually have a green power led. All (original) rev 8A (500's and 500+'s) all have a green power led.


Thanks for the detail. Both the A2000 Rev 6 and A500 Rev 6a appear to have been made after WB 2.0 was released, so that means they're both made after (or in) 1990. That makes it easy - if you've got a green power LED, you've got a 90's Amiga.

I think it also has to do with cost. Green LEDs didn't really get made in volume until the mid-80's and they were probably more expensive. By around 1988/89 they probably came down in price and that's when manufacturers started switching.

Of the 25 80's/early 90's computers I own, only the Apple IIc doesn't follow the pattern. It and its matching monitor have green power LEDs and they were made 84/85.

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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2009, 07:59:55 PM »
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I was thinking the exact same thing!

Infact, being argumentative and trolling one could say that you've bought stolen property :-) LOL



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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2009, 08:50:32 AM »
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I probably would have been happy to pay a little more than that actually... :)

Me too! In fact, I would have paid £45 for the as new monitor alone :)
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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2009, 08:51:53 AM »
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I cannot quite make out how much RAM you've got from the photo but it looks like just 512Kbytes!

If it is you need to get some RAM for your HD8+ ASAP! 2 * 4Mbyte 30-pin SIMMS

Perhaps consider converting the 52Mbyte hard drive into a flash drive with a SCSI->IDE->CF adapter system.

Maybe consider making it auto-powered at the same time.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~davem2/overclock/a500hd.html


Some great tips there thanks alexh :)

I've got 4 megs showing at the moment but there is some *thing* inside the trap door. I'm gonna remove it and see if the reading changes.
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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2009, 10:46:50 AM »
It is an unlikely number 4Mbytes. With 1Mbyte in the A500 you'd have to have 3Mbytes in the HD8+ which is an unusual number.
 

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Re: I found a boxed A500 setup
« Reply #22 on: May 23, 2009, 06:54:01 PM »
Quite correct alexh,

I remembered it was 4 million something but after booting again it actually shows "4967560 free memory". And if I close the Virus Checker this changes to "5013144 free memory". So the A500 has a 1/2 meg upgrade in trap door and 4MB on the GVP.

My first Amiga was an A500 Plus using Workbench 2.0. So I'm enjoying going all the way right back to an A500 and Workbench 1.3 :)


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