Well I am official now (sort of)

[irishmike]

I received my Amiga 3000 I bought on Ebay today.  It came in good shape and appears to at least power up.  Need to get the keyboard and mouse adapters or the A3000 Keyb/mouse and of course my KVM switch ;-)

I was noticing that it has a switch near the DB15 port which is marked enable and disable, and being totally new to my hardware, wondered what this switch does?   Is that the flicker fixer?

Also moving along:  This unit has one floppy drive and the cover that would normally cover the second floppy port is not included with the system, wondered if someone might have that and would be willing to post it to me?  If so, please pmail me and let me know.

Many thanks,

Mike

[Tomas]

One tip... Be sure to open it up and see if the battery has leaked, unless it has already been removed/replaced.

[irishmike]

The Battery unleaking... thinking about putting in a new one anyway.  That is real good advice, I fortunately knew to check that out ;-)

Thanks,

[adz]

irishmike wrote:

I was noticing that it has a switch near the DB15 port which is marked enable and disable, and being totally new to my hardware, wondered what this switch does?   Is that the flicker fixer?

Yes, that is the enable/disable toggle switch for the flicker fixer.

Also moving along:  This unit has one floppy drive and the cover that would normally cover the second floppy port is not included with the system, wondered if someone might have that and would be willing to post it to me?  If so, please pmail me and let me know.

Good luck tracking one of them down, took me almost a year to get one. I know SoftHut has them, although from memory they were US$30 plus S/H each.

[560SL]

@irishmike:

Which KVM were you thinking of using? I have Cybex KVM and it wont work unless monitor, kbd & mouse is attached. Been looking for a KVM with only monitor line.

[irishmike]

Well My plans are for one of the Belkin or Netgear KVMs, I also plan to buy the PS/2 adapters for the Amiga so I can just plug them up.  I figure it will be a bit like a Macintosh (although that was USB) where the hotkeys won't function from the keyboard to make the switch work, but the manual one should.

The reason the hotkeys (on the belkin) wouldn't conceivably work is that they require a software driver which (not too surprisingly) is only for Windows.

[lorddef]

Before you buy a KVM make sure you get a model number off of someone here who has a working one. Cocolino wouldn't work with my KVM, even though I have a mac connected via usb like you mentioned you have.

[irishmike]

I am open to suggestions on what KVM I should get.  I am planning to buy the Cocolino and Lyra Keyboard adapter.

Thanks,

[Hyperspeed]

Using a PC keyboard on an Amiga is horrid!

A mouse is not so bad, but missing the classic key layout is a downer, having to reboot with a Ctrl-Win-Win would make me mule.

[irishmike]

yep would love a real A3000 keyboard to go with my machine, but room on my desk is REAL limited, so I will live with the windows keys being the A keys.   Could be worse.  I figure that either way, it will cost $50... I suppose the real mouse and keyboard would be ideal... but as I said,  my space to compute is limited quite a bit.

So if anyone knows of a model KVM that works well with the afore mentioned adapters, please feel free to advise.

Thanks,

[dnelsonfl]

So if anyone knows of a model KVM that works well with the afore mentioned adapters, please feel free to advise.

I used to use a cheap Zonet 4-port KVM with my Amigas. I did purchase a power adapter at Radio Shack for it, though. Now I'm using a Belkin F1D-208 without problems.

-David

[sundown]

@irishmike

I am open to suggestions on what KVM I should get. I am planning to buy the Cocolino and Lyra Keyboard adapter.

I'm using both of those adapters & a $25 IOGear (GCS62KVM) kvm switch between a µA1 & an A4000T, no problems.