Nice Amiga 3000

[HopperJF]

Note that this isn't my auction, but I spotted a nice 3000 on eBay for a nice price in the States.

It's quite a good little usable setup I'd say, all it needs is 3.1 ROMS/OS then you have a decent machine

It comes with 030 with FPU, and 14 Meg RAM (2 of which is chip)

For the full details look here,  but for anyone who needs a decent Amiga for cheap this is a nice system

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[downix]

if it stays under $50.. that sucker issa mine!

[Methuselas]

Guess it's not yours then, Nate.  :-P

[amigadave]

It looks very clean and white, I wonder if the floppy drive is 880kb or 1.76mb?

The owner claims it was kept in a "peaceful" environment, so I guess you won't have to worry about OS1.3's "say" program hurling obscenities at you when you boot it up!  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

I need money right now and I am getting tempted to sell 2 or 3 systems to catch up on some bills.  Is anyone here interested in paying a huge price on an 060 A2000, or an A3000 w/040 WarpEngine plus some extras?  (god I hate selling my toys to pay bills!!!)

Good thing I have a decent UPS, the power has gone out twice in the last 30 minutes and 5 times in the last 6 months.

[meega]

amigadave wrote:
Is anyone here interested in paying a huge price on ...

I doubt it. :-P

[IndyJones]

Damn, this is right where I live! It'll probably get way too expensive, though.

[sandpiper]

@amigadave,

I see that you have an A3000 with a warpengine. I bought a warpengine for my A3000 recently and haven't been able to get the warpengine scsi to work (at all). The A3000 will not boot with a hard drive attached to the warpengine scsi. Anything special I should know? Thanks.

[Acill]

sandpiper wrote:
@amigadave,

I see that you have an A3000 with a warpengine. I bought a warpengine for my A3000 recently and haven't been able to get the warpengine scsi to work (at all). The A3000 will not boot with a hard drive attached to the warpengine scsi. Anything special I should know? Thanks.

If you havent ever done the INT_2 mod to the A3000 this is why. Its a simple 2 point solder connection on the A3000's motherboard bottom. It takes like 30 seconds to do. Lots of listings here if you search for it showing how its done.

[downix]

Methuselas wrote:
Guess it's not yours then, Nate.  :-P

Nope, no worries.

[sandpiper]

@Acill,

The warpengine has its own jumper wire to one of the CIAs to get the INT_2 signal. When it didn't work I tried the famous INT_2 fix as well and it didn't make any difference. That is why I'm wondering if there is anything else I should be looking at. I only have the rev 04 WD scsi chip. Do you need rev 08? These chips are extremely hard to come by.

[amigadave]

sandpiper wrote:
@Acill,

The warpengine has its own jumper wire to one of the CIAs to get the INT_2 signal. When it didn't work I tried the famous INT_2 fix as well and it didn't make any difference. That is why I'm wondering if there is anything else I should be looking at. I only have the rev 04 WD scsi chip. Do you need rev 08? These chips are extremely hard to come by.

I also used the jumper wire fix instead of the back of the MB solder fix and I don't have the 08 scsi chip and my WarpEngine scsi works fine (very fast).  I am sure you must have already checked for termination and/or scsi id conflicts.  If not check those two items.

[sandpiper]

@Amigadave

Got it. It was the hard drive. For some reason it did not like the one I was using. I installed an IBM 4.5GB Wide SCSI that I just got to the warpdrive and it works great. Double the speed of the onboard scsi.

[alexh]

From the description and the photo's you can see that the floppy drives are 880k, that this is a very early A3000 and that it has Kickstart 1.4

[IndyJones]

IndyJones wrote:
Damn, this is right where I live! It'll probably get way too expensive, though.

As predicted, this is now officially way too expensive for me.

[Ken86Stang]

Any guesses on how much this will go for?  What's something like this worth in the real world?