I got my A2000 today... :-)

[pyrre]

Hello people...
I got an A2000 today :-D
And it is in perfect condition... (except for yellowing)

It is the A2000 mention in another tread here...
Don't seem to find it..
It was listed as VERY expensive... (5000NOK, or 858USD)
But after some talking, he agreed to sell it for 257USD. A nice price for that computer. Especially when it comes complete with monitor, joystick, mouse, cables, disks++++


Facts:
- A2000 1986, Germany built REV 4 (kick 1.2)......(!)
- 1MB memory expansion card (only half a meg fitted)
- And a PC emulator 2000
  W/ 5 1/4" flopy drive, HDD drive (dead).
- Old style Western Digital HDD controller ISA...
- Commodore 1084 monitor. (the one with SCART connector)
- Amiga mouse, A2000 keyboard, a joystick and all cables+++
- A s**t load of disks...
- The original books

Questions:
- Where can i get more chips for the memcard (if possible)?
- Does any of you guys have any kickstarts for A2000 (2.04)
  and wanting to sell it?
- What other cool features of the A2000 do you know of?



Edited: found the link in BBoAH

[orange]

that is a nice computer, but, still I believe you could have find lower price if its 68000.
I'd say forget about that RAM card and buy a 030+ accelerator with 8Mb+ 32bit memory and SCSI
you can get kickstart 3.1 at www.vesalia.de

[vic20owner]

Who did you buy it from? Just curious to know who was selling an A2000 for $858!

[Crusher]

A2000 is a really nice Amiga. I have three of them, working.  :-)

[TheMagicM]

glad you got what you wanted but you paid way too much for it.

[Zac67]

That's an old 'A' model - max of 512 KB chip ram since it uses the A1000 chipset...

AFAIR the Ranger mem board uses 41256 chips - I've got... 22 pcs lying around, if you need them, they're yours for the postage. [...] Took a look at BBoAH: you might need page mode (41257) ones, the ones I have are standard 41256.

[BinoX]

The A2000 is a nice machine, I got 2 running here and  they work brilliantly

I think amigakit.com still has a kickstart 2 ROM on the site for sale that you could put in.. (Or upgrade straight to 3.1 of course.. both of my 2000s are KS3.1)

I also have the PC Emulator card (obtained recently actually) It's mostly useless unless you have some really really old PC (DOS 4) software that you might wanna run on it...

Well, I hope you have fun with it Like I've already said, they're great machines.

[Matt_H]

Given that it's an early rev 4, I think you paid too much. That revision is difficult to expand due to different logic in the CPU and video slots. Some accelerators won't work at all, others will require you to pop the 68000 off the motherboard. It also lacks a Buster chip. which might give you some Zorro problems. If you upgrade the Kickstart past 1.3, you'll also probably have to do the old 1->31 pin swap trick (details are all over the place, Aminet probably has them too).

Still, it looks like you got a lot of bonus goodies with it too. Ultimately, if you're satisfied with it, it was a good buy.

[vic20owner]

...and if you are using it to play games, then it's fine the way it is...

[Darrin]

Nice purchase.  I've been busy expanding my A2000 over the last few months.  The A2000 was my first Amiga, but I sold it when I moved to America.  Then last year I managed to pick up another one from a chap in Houston.  I've got the revision 4.2 mobo with a 1MB Agnus.  I did add an 8MB Zorro RAM card, but I removed it when I added a 68030 and a graphics card.

If you want to use it for games then grab a cheap Zorro SCSI or IDE expansion card (Some SCSI cards cam come with RAM on them) for HD installation (watch eBay for a cheap scan doubler if you want a PC monitor).

If you want a bit more fun then add a 68030 or 68040 (which will have their own RAM expansions) along with that SCSI/IDE card, upgrade the AGNUS chip and find a good Zorro graphics card.  Finally get Kickstart 3.1 ROMS, a CD ROM and OS3.9.

Anyway, I hope you have fun with it.

[guru-666]

over paid by $150 - $200, hard to even give them away.
I am sure you will enjoy it anyway.  the seller is insane!

[hamtronix]

Man, way to pee on this guy. let the man have his fun and answer his questions no matter how much/little that was paid... criminy, you fun boys.

[Tenacious]

What do 1084 monitors go for?  All the docs, cables, and software?  Doesn't sound so bad to me and a fraction of the new price.  

[Jeff]

Congratulations on the new machine. Like others have said the 2000 is quite reliable and expandable. While 2000's may still be plentiful and inexpensive in some areas of the world, international shipping charges are crazy expensive these days. It looks like the OP is in Norway where perhaps Amigas are hard to come by.

I say if it works, you are happy, and it sounds like it has some extras, then you did well!  Look at the pictures of the beautiful PPC 2000 with RAID that someone has in the gallery to see just how nicely they can be fixed up.
:cheers:
-Jeff

[Ami_GFX]

The A2000 is a great workhorse. The only issue I have with it is the amount of space it takes up--especially with a 1084 monitor. I own 2 of them right now. I tried a 3.1 rom in my A2500 but had to put the original 2.04 rom back in this morning because of some compatiblity issues--I've had this machine since 1993 and have a lot of software on it from that era. I might get a rom switcher some day but the my A4000 does system 3.1 so much better, I'm not in too big of a hurry. The 3.1 rom also slowed my hard disk speed to a crawl--I believe this is because my A2091 SCSI board has 6.6 roms and the 7.0 roms were probably developed to deal with this amoung other issues.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that have some fun with your machine and play around with it as it is before you invest a lot of time and money in upgrades. If you want a machine that can do OS3.9 well, get an A4000 which sometimes can be had for what you paid for your A2000. And I don't think you got such a bad deal. You managed to bring the seller to reality at least. I sold 2 1084 monitors for $60 and $70 and paid $30 for an A2000 keyboard recently so the accessories you got do count for something. And it is nice to buy a complete system and not have to spend ages getting the parts you need to make things work.