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Offline marcfrick2112

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Re: Whoohoo! Got my New (to me) A2000 today!
« Reply #14 from previous page: May 25, 2010, 07:34:36 AM »
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That'll be a 4.3, then.



I got 2 old 2000s not too long ago, and both their floppy drives are dead. Or so I thought. From what I've read of similar accounts here, they might just be hideously, hideously dirty (the kind of dirty that requires full dis-assembly to clean). I haven't yet gotten around to attempting a repair. Seems to be a common issue with those kinds of drives.

Anyway, enjoy the machine! It's at a great starting point for some light productivity.

Sorry to hijaak the thread, but Matt_H: That 'hideously, hideously dirty' happens to quite a few Amiga drives. I managed to fix a 1011 by completely disassembling it, and using tuner cleaner on all the micro-switches... In my case, it was the the disk protect switches....  AFAIK, the drive is still working, tho' the buyer complained about it being so yellowed.... Isn't that right, Save2600?  :laughing:

I'd advise to not throw out any Amiga drive, until you have made sure it truly is dead....
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A1200T / \'060, 256MB, CD-R, OS3.9
A4000 w/ WarpEngine / 82MB , OS3.1
A4000 16MB, OS 3.9
A1200 , \'030 / 10MB
A1200 (stock)

CD32 :)

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Re: Whoohoo! Got my New (to me) A2000 today!
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2010, 04:10:18 PM »
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Sorry to hijaak the thread, but Matt_H: That 'hideously, hideously dirty' happens to quite a few Amiga drives. I managed to fix a 1011 by completely disassembling it, and using tuner cleaner on all the micro-switches... In my case, it was the the disk protect switches....  AFAIK, the drive is still working, tho' the buyer complained about it being so yellowed.... Isn't that right, Save2600?  :laughing:

I'd advise to not throw out any Amiga drive, until you have made sure it truly is dead....

No problem!  Mine is borked in that it is missing the front plastic fascia.  It is kind of cool to watch the big mass weight on the bottom spinning when it read up, tho :)
 

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Re: Whoohoo! Got my New (to me) A2000 today!
« Reply #16 on: May 28, 2010, 06:11:27 PM »
Well, I've been digging into the system a bit more.  I get the feeling the PO may have reoved some of the more pricey items from it before selling...unless 3.1 comes with 68040.library pre-installed.  Also, 2 of the expansion plates in the back are missing, the one on the far right side from the front (far left if you're looking at it from the back) and the one by the CPU fast slot.  Not really a big deal to me-far be it to begrudge a man for making some honest scratch.

I think my next stop is sourcing either a Mini-Megi and that 8M ram board, or springing for an '030/8m GVP 3001 I saw on the fleabay.  Also, I need to do some more research into the why's and how's of kickstart switching (1.3, 2.x, 3.x, etc).  I guess my first destination is to get this puppy to do any game not AGA either by disk or WHDload, while also becoming my word processor (I used final writer 2 back in the day-I'm open to suggestions to better word processors).