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Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« on: November 01, 2003, 04:20:16 AM »
I have just listed three A500s with dead floppy drive and two with imperfect boxes.

HERE while they last.
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2003, 04:42:34 AM »
Red, I don't suppose you know what rev Mobo and Rom they have, do you?
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2003, 04:58:41 AM »
I don't check mobo revisions, but the few I have opened up have been rev5 so chances are they are all that rev.

KS roms are a crap shot between KS1.2 and KS1.3. I'd say about 60% are KS1.2 and 40% are KS1.3.

Sorry if that doesnt help for these specifically

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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2003, 05:06:16 AM »
Oh, it more than does. That's the rom version I want (If I get one, it's strictly for 'legacy' games) Don't know about the rev 5 mobo, though. My 500 had one and it gave me nothing but problems.  :-( It had a 2.04 rom, but it wouldn't use a 1.3 or a 3.1. I went and bought a 3.1 rom and it never worked. Thank god I ended up getting my first A2000 (given to me by a mate of mine who still has his 'Van Halen' 500. He painted that poor 500 to look EXACTLY like Eddie's guitar. Poor thing.)
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2003, 08:53:12 AM »
Methuselas,

The only problems with Rev5 is that you need to solder a wire to your kickstart chip if it's something better than 1.x, and if you want to do the 1M chip mod, you need to cut a trace on the motherboard as one of the jumpers isn't there yet in this rev..

I never had any trouble with my rev5 and I see that your only troubles were that you probably didn't have the wire on the kickstart chip. :-)
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2003, 09:02:02 AM »
Actually, I had the trace cut and the wire to the rom, but I also had an AdRam card in it too. I couldn't get ANY kind of accelerator working with it.

That sucked, 'cos I was given an A2000 with a rev6 mobo that didn't like any accelerator either. I spent 200$ on an Apollo 030/50 back in 1997 and NEVER got it to work. Eventually, it was destroyed, along with my A3000 and a bunch of other Amiga items by my ex lady. Well, I wouldn't call her a lady. A friend with benefits was more like it. Then again, she wasn't really even a friend.
 :-(  Sigh....I really miss my A3000.
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2003, 09:02:18 AM »
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1113&item=3562845830

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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2003, 09:31:21 AM »
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Well, I wouldn't call her a lady. A friend with benefits was more like it.


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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2003, 09:36:40 AM »
Red, do you know what edition that Magic deck is? Revised, 4th, etc, its difficult to see...Or approximate age?
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2003, 11:47:43 AM »
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Red, do you know what edition that Magic deck is? Revised, 4th, etc, its difficult to see...Or approximate age?


It is from 1994. The box says nothing about any edition or revision.
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2003, 08:05:14 PM »
That Magic deck did okay didn't it Red?

Its amazing what people will pay for Magic cards - I reckon my collection is worth well over a grand!
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2003, 09:04:26 PM »
Ya know, he's got these nice new A500's, and I have probably 20+ 500 motherboards here. . . I also have a crapload of ROMS (1.2 1.3 2.04 2.05 3.0). I'm sure between the two of us you could end up with a really nice 500.  :-D

Man I wish I had a trained monkey to test all this stuff for me.
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2003, 09:09:46 PM »
If only I was in N America Jag, I'd take some bits off your hands...
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2003, 09:12:52 PM »
Damn, I thought you were going to offer to be my trained monkey for a second there.
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Re: Imperfect refurbished A500s for cheap!
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2003, 09:42:43 PM »
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If only I was in N America Jag, I'd take some bits off your hands...


That's no excuse! I have shipped to Australia, Malasyia, Czech republic, Poland, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, UK, Taiwan and many others in the last month alone:-D
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