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Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« on: March 11, 2011, 04:29:15 AM »
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2011, 06:54:02 AM »
holy Crap!
 
They paid $200 for that!  The thing is resty and dusty, has NO expantions in it, was NOT put together correctly (rear case screw, check it out), and they have no clue what they are looking at.
 
Example:
 
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/commodore-amiga-2000-teardown/6200188?seq=26&tag=content;photo-frame#photo-frame
 
A simple question even Doomy could answer would clarify what the board was for...
 
After reading this article I start to doubt the mental abilities of the people who do these articles.:madashell:
 
Sorry, having a bad day...
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2011, 07:48:15 AM »
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holy Crap!
 
They paid $200 for that!  The thing is resty and dusty, has NO expantions in it, was NOT put together correctly (rear case screw, check it out), and they have no clue what they are looking at.

I don't mean to gloat... but given the topic, I have to share a few pics of what was surprisingly inside the $200 A2000 I recently bought...
« Last Edit: March 11, 2011, 07:50:51 AM by Damion »
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2011, 08:05:37 AM »
The author would seem to have only a very basic understanding of what he's pulling apart.
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2011, 08:17:14 AM »
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I don't mean to gloat... but given the topic, I have to share a few pics of what was surprisingly inside the $200 A2000 I recently bought...

:banana::banana:
 
SCORE!!!
 
Now THAT is something to brag about paying $200 for!!!
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2011, 08:36:09 AM »
Quote from: Damion;621100
I don't mean to gloat... but given the topic, I have to share a few pics of what was surprisingly inside the $200 A2000 I recently bought...


Some people have all the luck...

Congratulations! ;)
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2011, 11:10:16 AM »
Whomever wrote that article obviously doesn't know much about the Amiga and most of the reply's are written by folk who are very much the same or haven't used an Amiga in years and are writing stuff based on vague memories... :rolleyes:

Makes me wonder why folk do such things... :confused:
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2011, 12:04:04 PM »
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Whomever wrote that article obviously doesn't know much about the Amiga and most of the reply's are written by folk who are very much the same or haven't used an Amiga in years and are writing stuff based on vague memories... :rolleyes:

Makes me wonder why folk do such things... :confused:


sadly this article just describe how the world look at the amiga and what they know about it in 2011...
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2011, 04:14:52 PM »
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two DE-9 RS-232 serial ports (for a mouse, joystick, or other controller).
And this guy calls himself a journalist? So much for research and fact checking.
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2011, 05:39:30 PM »
Quote from: Matt_H;621230
And this guy calls himself a journalist? So much for research and fact checking.


Indeed.
And the Square chip is the (Fat) Agnus.

The 8520 are two serial+parallel port chips of which one parallel connections are used for the front Mouse/Joystick ports. Those things are hard to get if you blow one up ...

I have that model as well, bought originally in 1989 in Germany for 4000 Deutschmarks.
With Bridgeboard (8088/8086) and 20Mb Hardcard (HD) in XT Slot which required floppy boot to boot to an AMIGA partition on the PC Harddisk :)

Initially I had it seperated into two 10Mb partitions: on for DOS 3.2, one for AMIGADOS/Workbench.
I went through some HD's with SCSI controllers for native booting from HD, and it currently no longer holds the bridgeboard (got PC's in the house anyway), but a 800Mb SCSI HD and a SCSI CD-ROM I never got to working (missing the proper mountlist entries).

I should really start that beast up again sometime. It's still functional as far as I know, even if the clock battery is out by now.
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2011, 05:59:01 PM »
Just posted my own comment on that site about such a crappy item about the Amiga...

Much to my surprise they published it... :D
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2011, 01:04:37 PM »
It seems to me no one made an effort to look for the original post at TechRepublic.

http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/commodore-amiga-2000-teardown/6200011?tag=mantle_skin;content

There's a lot to be find there. Including dozen of interesting comments by the Wizzard himself! ;)
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2011, 04:58:44 PM »
The comments after the article are where its at.  What a fun read, even if we all know the story before.  I love seeing people being reminded of responding to it like they would about the girl (or guy) who was the first. :)
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Re: Commodore Amiga 2000 Teardown
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2011, 07:57:49 AM »
Curious why no one noticed Dave Haynie's comments on his work on A2000 and Commodore days. Haynie after all doesn't give much personal comments these days.

Maybe it's only me who still has fun reading his comments.
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