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Offline lofstudioTopic starter

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Returning to Amiga
« on: October 26, 2006, 03:12:29 PM »
First, it's nice to see so many people from Alabama on this board. Of course, they're all in the northern half of the state.

I've posted in other sections here before, but I don't think I introduced myself. I used the Amiga until 1995, when I sold a 4000 with EMplant board to get one of the new Mac clones. I'm getting my Amiga fix from UAE run on a MacBook under Boot Camp (UAE is a bit slow on OS X). But it looks like I'll be getting a 1200 soon. It'll look really good sitting next to my Newton MP2100.

Dan
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2006, 03:57:05 PM »
Welcome back!
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2006, 09:53:29 PM »
Hey, Dan! It's Mike Brantley in Mobile, a fellow (and local) Amiga nut from way back when. Funny, but I've got almost the same story. I use a PoweMac dual G5 as my main machine these days, but lately I've been feeling nostalgic about Amigas. I pulled out a couple of my Amigas this weekend from the closet, and I'm looking for an A4000 or an A3000 to mess around with for old time's sake. In the closet all these years have been my A1200, a couple of A1000s, an A2000 and an A2500.

I've decided I want to have a single Amiga set up and running to goof around on in my home computer lab, and I'm trying to decide which one and how far to go with upgrades.

Shoot me an e-mail, and I'll give you my phone number. I don't know if you remember, but I visited you and your former A4000 prior to you selling it in 1995.
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2006, 10:04:17 PM »
@ mbrantly

A nice Pic of the 2500 would be cool to see ;)))

They are pretty rare
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2006, 12:36:02 AM »
I'll see what I can do about setting up the 2500 and getting a picture of it online. It looks just like a 2000 with with a different number on the nameplate. This one has a bunch of video BNC connectors on the back of it because there is a SuperGen 2000 genlock installed. This particular machine used to run the weather graphics for a local television station about 12 or 13 years ago using Scala presentation software.
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2006, 02:41:28 AM »
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SHADES wrote:
@ mbrantly

A nice Pic of the 2500 would be cool to see ;)))

They are pretty rare


Here's mine. It has its 2630 bumped to 50mhz and an ICD SCSI card replacing the 2091.

http://gallery.randomspamsubjects.com/main.php/v/gdanko/amigas/newamigas/Three+New+Amigas.jpg.html
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Offline mbrantley

Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2006, 04:50:41 AM »
g, that's a nice stack of hardware.

Shades, here's a freshly snapped photo of my 2500, dusted off and booted up for the first time in years.

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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2006, 05:58:23 AM »
Very nice  :-)
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2006, 06:33:29 AM »
Mike,

Is that 2500 from WPMI? I called a few weeks ago to see if they still had it--they had a Video Toaster in it the last time I saw it.
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2006, 08:06:48 AM »
Welcome to the community there neighbor!
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2006, 09:02:57 AM »
thats a very fresh and fine looking A2500 you got there.
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2006, 09:03:58 AM »
and welcome back lofstudio.

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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2006, 09:44:20 AM »
Welcome!
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2006, 12:53:36 PM »
Welcome back!
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Re: Returning to Amiga
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2006, 03:18:41 PM »
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Shades, here's a freshly snapped photo of my 2500, dusted off and booted up for the first time in years.

have you removed or replaced the battery yet??
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