Hi Amiga.org, I'm Dox
Way back, I signed up as a developer with C= and shelled out the £2000+ for my second Amiga, a shiney 25Mhz A3000 with a huge 50Mb HD. Over time, it grew an additional 200Mb drive inside, and, at it's heyday as the home of Dox's Amiga BBS (where nothing ever happened) had an externally mounted 5.25 drive in an empty tower case for an additional 350Mb of file storage for the BBS...
When C= went under, I bought all the memory ZIP's that had been in C= UK's A3000UX which ran the developer BBS and tucked them inside my own machine. I can't remember for sure, but I suspect that takes it up to about 16Mb or so (perhaps somebody here can refresh my memory?) ;*)
Anyway, I took DABBS off the air on Feb 29th one year and the A3000 has been sitting un-used in my office since then. I'm having a clear-out and it needs to go I'm afraid :-(
I've got two options, one is to find a home for it with an Amiga enthusiast who'll take good care of it or, the second, is to clean the case, carry-out major surgery and ad something like a mini-itx motherboard and peripherals and install Linux on it. That way I can post to the projects page on mini-itx.com amongst the other classic machines that have found a new life with a mobo and OS/emulator...
It does boot, although I don't have a monitor which works at whatever freq the Amiga does, but on the TFT screen, if I enable/disable the 31K output, I can see the screen for a second complaining about the missing BBS: volume which used to be on the external SCSI drive.
I've read some of the threads in the "ebay" forum, but don't really want to put it on ebay unless I have to. What I did want to guage was the interest from Amiga enthusiasts who might like a present in return for a small donation? I'm in Leeds in the UK, but subject to the usual shipping stuff, could send it anywhere if the recipient pays the shipping costs.
If there's any interests I'll post some pictures etc, but in brief it's an A3000/25 with the developer ROM's. I've got some disks with (I think) KS3.1 and the rest. Original keyboard, but Boing optical mouse and mat from when the original mouse wore out. I've also got a cumana external floppy drive which used to sit next to my original A500 too.
There are a couple of games and a boxed original of ProPage plus whatever else I can fine in the clear-out.
It'll sit in the office for a bit after the clear-out, but my better half will be wanting to know why it's still here ;-)
If you're interested, please let me know. Apologies in advance to the mods if this is completely the wrong place to post a message like this.
Regards
Dox.
(Dox's Amiga BBS (where nothing ever happened) 2:250/320)
;-)
