is this guy for real?

[Xamiche]

nikodr wrote:
In a more relaxed and humor style way i would say he is not wrong 100%.

What is an upgraded amiga...

I could staple wheels to my legs, but it wouldn't make me a wagon. :-P

[AmigaHeretic]

Most probably the original guy who had that amiga (he says a friend of him had it),upgraded os to 3.0 with a new rom.That's why he gives away the disketes labelled os 3.0 and so on.I would assume the previous seller did not know and thought that by changing the rom to 3.0 would make this amiga 500 in to an a1200.

I think you are right.  Looks like it has an 020 accelerator and 3.0 roms, so it's "close" to A1200 specs.  Missing AGA chip set of course and who knows maybe it even has a DKB 2meg Chip Ram expansion in there!  :-D

[scuzzb494]

What if the guy did upgrade to a 1200 and kept it in the 500 box... Then later put his 500 back in the box. There are a million reasons... What the guy really is selling is an A500 with a box that has been written on.

Still think its worth buying to find out.

scuzz

[scuzzb494]

Hi

Thanks for the heads up. Certainly worth it.

Hi

Back from London and with the Viper 520 CD

Turns out this was the property of an old computer
geek who died recently. The wife was going to bin
it, but Mike, the guy I met suggested he put it on
Ebay. He had no idea what it was and didn`t put
the writing on the box. He also gave me two boxes
of computer bits and another PC. Great guy.

Viper 520 CD

Compact board with a mounting bay for an
internal 2.5" hard drive.
68EC020 33MHz CPU
32 Bit OS 3.0 ROM ver 39.106
32 Bit 4-8 Mbytes FASTRAM starting from
address 0x200000
Integrated 4 units IDE adaptor
3 IDE connectors, 1 x 2.5", 2 x 3.5"
for up to 4 devices, ATAPI devices available
Optional ATAPI software used
Socket for 68882 co-processor up to 33 MHz
Both FASTRAM and ROM can be switched off

Made by DCE Computer Service GmbH


On the 20th October 1999  the board cost £99.95
and the 170MB 2.5" Seagate 2.5" drive cost £45.95
With parts and labour all in all cost £200.90p which
I gotta say was cheap in its day.

scuzz
http://www.commodore-amiga-retro.com