Anybody seen my Amiga 1000?

[FastRobPlus]

A long shot, I know, but years ago (1992) I traded my Amiga 1000 system to someone in the Seattle area for a 386SX PC. I've kind of been wondering what happened to it ever since. It was a very unusual Amiga 1000. If you'd seen it, you may remember it -- it was massively upgraded. More so I think than any other Amiga 1000:

The case had several holes drilled into the top, and the inside of the case had its RF shielding removed, and part of the floppy drive shielding removed, and the top plastic shell (the part with signitures) had much of its strengthening lattice structure chiseled away to make room for:
- An Expert Services's rejuvenator board
- A Spirit Insider 1.5 MB card
- A 25mhz CSA Derringer 68030 card and FPU, and RAM
- An ATOnce Plus 286 emulator
- those last 3 items were simultaneously plugged into the 68000 socket.
Also - the system had a ROM switcher installed and 1.3/2.0(I think) roms.
The system also had a custom Lucite monitor stand, suspended by steel rods or bolts and some wood, to keep the weight of the monitor off the actual computer, which could no longer support it.
The computer also had toggle switches on the back to toggle the sound filter on/off, and something else I can't recall (PAL/NTSC, or 68000/68030?)

The system also had a custom made hard drive controller - a black and beige steel box with an ISA PC MFM/RLE hard drive controller wired into it, all stuck to the expansion slot on the right side. The box had hard drive ribbon cable snaking out the top (I think) and into a huge plastic black and beige 4-bay external hard disk enclosure. The whole thing needed to be booted by using a custom floppy hard drive mountlist and controller, as the drive was a do-it-yourself kit that I suspect only a few folks ever bought. The kit and driver had "MAX" in its name somewhere.

When I traded it, it also had a HAM-E, a CDTV connected via parnet, and a Digi-View. I think I sold the HAM-E and the CDTV separately, but sent the digi-view (with camera, lights, motor, etc) with the Amiga 1000.

If anyone remembers seeing an Amiga that fits this description, I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks!

[odin]

That's gonna be hard to find back I'd say. Perhaps you should try posting in the general amiga chat, so that your thread hits the frontpage :-).

[FastRobPlus]

Good idea.  I'll try that.

[Kees]

I moved this thread to the general section and deleted the duplicate ..

Good luck finding it ... although I would be suprised if you found it again.

[TjLaZer]

WOW thats one hell of a A1000!  You should of kept it, but I understand how it was back then, trying to get some $$ back to upgrade, but in your case was it really an upgrade going to a 386?

[FastRobPlus]

In hindsight....

It's funny you reply to this thread today (after 6 months) - I just logged on today for the first time since that post and started a "WTB: Rejuvenator board" thread.

I recently lucked out and bought an Amiga 1000, 1080, and all early software - in like-new condition with original packaging locally for $75.  It was a wonderful find!  I'm thinking with my better understanding of electronics, maybe I can re-create my old 1000 system.

Anyway, at the time I traded that Amiga 1000, I did have an Amiga 3000, so I didn't feel the sense of loss.  Also, DOOM had just come out for the DOS boxes....

[MaDDuck]

Anyway, at the time I traded that Amiga 1000, I did have an Amiga 3000, so I didn't feel the sense of loss.  Also, DOOM had just come out for the DOS boxes....

DOOM on a 80386???
Sounds as bad as QUAKE on a 68040.

~~SHUDDER~~

[FastRobPlus]

I wish it had been a 386.
It was a 386SX...

[FastRobPlus]

Regarding my long-lost A1000.  I just went through a box of Amiga stuff and happened on the work order from Expert Services in Kentucky, which had more info on my system's configuration.

- The HDD controlller was a homebrew kit called a "PaloMAX" that used an 8-bit ISA PC card wired to the Amiga's 83-pin side bus.

- The Derringer '030 was 25Mhz+50Mhz FPU - and I remember now, it was one of, if not the first CSA Derringers produced.  I pre-ordered simething like a year in advance and called CSA to bug them every week or so.  I also had a Ronin research Hurricaine '020 that I'd swap back in every other month or so as I'd send the Derringer back for some service.

- My power supply was too taxed to support a flicker fixer card in the video slot (room/heat might have been an issue) so I bought an Atari SC1224 monitor (the version of the 1224 with a longer gun and higher pixel-persistance than most other RGB monitors) and had Redmond cable make a custom cable for it.  The slower phosphor fade of this monitor meant I could run in interlaced mode with less noticable flicker.  Unfortunately, the monitor did not like switching to PAL.

[weirdami]

@FastRobPlus

You're never going to find it again. Whoever you traded it to is in hiding because he's afraid you'll come you your senses, realize your bad judgement, and want it all back.

How long did it take you to stop kicking yourself?

[TjLaZer]

@FastRobPlus

Locally?  Cool.  Where at?  I am in Tacoma myself.

[FastRobPlus]

TjLaZer-

I'm in Bellevue.  I just checked out your Amiag pics.  That A1000 looks to be in great condition!  I thought I saw an two Atari drives in one of your pics.  Do you collect Atari too?

[FastRobPlus]

>>How long did it take you to stop kicking yourself?

Let's see... it took 10 years to even realise what I did, so is should take, oh... say, 40 years to stop kicking myself.

[TjLaZer]

@FastRobPlus

Yes I collect Atari also!  I have Atari 400/800, 600/800XL, 1200XL, 130XE; Atari 520/1040ST, 1040STE, Mega2/4, Falcon030 and TT030!

Yes I am a retro geek!