Amiga 1000 on Ebay.

[werthers93]

Check this out, seems a bargain.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Commodore-Amiga-1000-Computer_W0QQitemZ8269721451QQcategoryZ3544QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[InTheSand]

A good low starting price, but you may have problems locating an A1000 keyboard, plus shipping might be high.

And I'm not quite sure how the seller has heard a hard drive booting! :-)

 - Ali

[drewz21]

I've already got 2 A1000's but neither of mine have an internal hard drive.   :roll:

[ltstanfo]

InTheSand wrote:
And I'm not quite sure how the seller has heard a hard drive booting! :-)

 - Ali

Most likely the seller hears the floppy drive being detected on startup.  In any event, there were a number of hacks for the A1000 that included installing internal hard drives or modems.  Most of the hacks involved removing the internal shielding to free up space.

I used to have an A1000 with an internal 9600 modem that was a very big deal back in 1987.  8-)

Regards,
Ltstanfo

[KThunder]

why are so many a1000s missing their keyboards and mice?
it is possible to build an ide interface and put a drive internally. all 3rd party commercial drives were epansion slot stuff.

[InTheSand]

@Ltstanfo:

Heh! Speedy modem, but nice to have it internal!

I think back in 1987, the only modems I'd seen were split rate 1200/75 ones, where on most BBSs I could type faster than the modem could send! :-)

 - Ali

[TjLaZer]

why are so many a1000s missing their keyboards and mice?

The reason is back when the A2000 first came out, Commodore had a trade up program. You would turn in your A1000 keyboard (thus making your A1000 inop) and you would get like ~$1000 off the price of a new A2000 system!  What a great deal!!!!

[bloodline]

KThunder wrote:
it is possible to build an ide interface and put a drive internally. all 3rd party commercial drives were epansion slot stuff.

Yeah, should be easy to hang an IDE bus from the 68000 socket!

[alenppc]

The reason is back when the A2000 first came out, Commodore had a trade up program. You would turn in your A1000 keyboard (thus making your A1000 inop) and you would get like ~$1000 off the price of a new A2000 system!  What a great deal!!!!

Exactly, and no one ever found out what happened to those keyboards...

Although technically the A1000's keyboard interface is exactly the same as those used on the A2000/3000/4000 so it is only a matter of obtaining two connectors and wiring them up to make an adapter... I tried it and it works perfectly.

[KThunder]

actually an ide adapter off the 68000 socket is pretty easy. the 68000 is pretty big after all and the board is small even if wirewrapped.
i totally forgot about the tradeup program, it makes sense i guess, not having people trade in a keyboard making the rest of the system crippled i mean, but that being why there are so many 1000s without keyboards