New A1200 - what is all this stuff?

[LordSpunky]

Hi guys, I've just picked up my 4th A1200....and comes with some stuff.....have a look and tell me what some of it is

http://www.amiga.org/forums/album.php?albumid=133

[nOw2]

I've added some comments to the photos. Most of them appear to have manuals, and I'm guessing the answers are provided within, page 1 :-)

[LordSpunky]

I've added some comments to the photos. Most of them appear to have manuals, and I'm guessing the answers are provided within, page 1 :-)

Thanks - yeah that is very true.....I guess my main question is with regards to the expansion card......I have another one in my main A1200 that is totally unbranded, and now there is this one......not sure which is best......or just get a new accelerator instead.

[scuzzb494]

Software, cover disks, guide which came on a box of three, digitizer, modem, genlock, Surf Squirrel SCSI interface plugs into your PCMCIA for SCSI drives ie CD, Wordworth Desktop Pub, DeluxeMusic, Games, ProGrab 24 Real Time video digitizer, 1200 with 3.5" hard drive, RamBoard 4Mb onboard the FP is missing thinks, A1200 computer, Philips monitor not multisync good for games, Standard A1200 shipped originally with no hard drive. Watch the power consumption with the HD inside like that. I had to get a 500 brick to make mine work.

[save2600]

Thanks - yeah that is very true.....I guess my main question is with regards to the expansion card......I have another one in my main A1200 that is totally unbranded, and now there is this one......not sure which is best......or just get a new accelerator instead.

Neither pictured are accelerator cards in the traditional processor sense, but the Fast RAM is nice to have on a modest A1200 system. If you're gonna keep 'em, may as well stick 881's or 882's (preferred) in there for the heck of it.

To answer your question about replacing with a traditional accelerator (such as an 030 or better based one with RAM), you'll have to spill the beans on just what it is you plan on doing with these machines. WHDLoad, Raytracing, painting, etc. 4 A1200's, really?  :lol:

I think one with an 030 card and a 2.5" HD (or CF<>IDE) would suffice and keep another as a spare maybe. Pretty much what I do in case of "emergency".  lol

[LordSpunky]

Software, cover disks, guide which came on a box of three, digitizer, modem, genlock, Surf Squirrel SCSI interface plugs into your PCMCIA for SCSI drives ie CD, Wordworth Desktop Pub, DeluxeMusic, Games, ProGrab 24 Real Time video digitizer, 1200 with 3.5" hard drive, RamBoard 4Mb onboard the FP is missing thinks, A1200 computer, Philips monitor not multisync good for games, Standard A1200 shipped originally with no hard drive. Watch the power consumption with the HD inside like that. I had to get a 500 brick to make mine work.

Yeah all that for £50

[LordSpunky]

Neither pictured are accelerator cards in the traditional processor sense, but the Fast RAM is nice to have on a modest A1200 system. If you're gonna keep 'em, may as well stick 881's or 882's (preferred) in there for the heck of it.

To answer your question about replacing with a traditional accelerator (such as an 030 or better based one with RAM), you'll have to spill the beans on just what it is you plan on doing with these machines. 4 A1200's, really?  :lol:

I think one with an 030 card and a 2.5" HD (or CF<>IDE) would suffice and keep another as a spare maybe. Pretty much what I do in case of "emergency".  lol

Like this? - http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=119

Well.......I just collect old computers and get offered them.....and I can't say no!

I want to upgrade the A4000 into my main retro desktop but.....
My main Amiga Inc A1200 I want as my game machine. It already runs a 4GB CF HDD and that random 8MB card.....I also wanted a CD-ROM drive for it.....so now I am half way there....nothing wrong with having 3 spare A1200's

[save2600]

Like this? - http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=119

Yeah, just be sure to get the oscillator with it too and install properly. For $36, I'd think that thing should come with the oscillator, but that's the bargain basement bastard in me talking

Well.......I just collect old computers and get offered them.....and I can't say no!

I hear that! Never passed up a free or dirt cheap Miggy myself. Ever.  :lol:

[Franko]

This is the board you've got here...

Magnum 8 RAM Board

The max speed for the 68882 FPU on it is 40Mhz...

As Save2600 says you'd be better keeping that one and adding the FPU to it than using your "plain" RAM card...

That'll speed up any progs/utils that have specific FPU versions written for them like PPaint, Final Writer, PageStream etc...

I take that was the stuff we talked about a while back, told you it was well worth the money, jammy git, wish I could come across a bargain like that...

[smerf]

Hi guys, I've just picked up my 4th A1200....and comes with some stuff.....have a look and tell me what some of it is

http://www.amiga.org/forums/album.php?albumid=133

Hi,

Its all obsolete junk, I will give you $10 for it.

smerf

[Iggy]

Hi,

Its all obsolete junk, I will give you $10 for it.

smerf

Troll.

[LordSpunky]

I take that was the stuff we talked about a while back, told you it was well worth the money, jammy git, wish I could come across a bargain like that...

it is indeed the stuff we talked about

I guess I need that cap for the FPU swell? Is that a solder job?

Also I think I have an Apple external SCSI CD drive think it will work? I guess they are all the same

[Franko]

it is indeed the stuff we talked about

I guess I need that cap for the FPU swell? Is that a solder job?

Also I think I have an Apple external SCSI CD drive think it will work? I guess they are all the same

Nah... no soldering for the FPU or the crystal, they just plug in (you can usually find em on eBay cheaply)...

The CD might work, but then again it might not (the Miggie can be quite fussy when it come to CD/DVD drives, especially newer ones)...

(Still say you're a jammy git though... )

[LordSpunky]

Nah... no soldering for the FPU or the crystal, they just plug in (you can usually find em on eBay cheaply)...

The CD might work, but then again it might not (the Miggie can be quite fussy when it come to CD/DVD drives, especially newer ones)...

(Still say you're a jammy git though... )

No soldering? Cheap on ebay? I'll start the search!

I'll try the Apple drive at some point.....when I can get to the box that it is in