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[rednova]

Amigo Quarks:

I have something to tell you that is important to me.
I believe what you are doing (reselling amiga computers) is great service
to the amiga community.
Even I want to buy an amiga from you in the future !!!
You are helping amigans to get used amigas for personal use.
Please keep reselling amigas !!!

[quarkx]

Thanks Rednova,
Sorry for the lack of updates here, I have been busy trying to get stock shipped, the website updated and of course the tower up and running.

[quarkx]

Quite a few blog posts since my last update here. Today, I have more photos of the A4000T up in my "Build" blog.
http://amigalounge.com

[quarkx]

Just a friendly reminder to please email me directly at the website if you have any inquires. Feel free to use my hotmail address (glenvdb) if you want a response right away as it goes to my phone. I don't log on here all that much and can possibly miss your PM's for days. That and I am usually armpit deep into builds, so I don't even check the lounge's email that much (just a few times a day).

Also, just a quick update on the NOS stuff. The A4000T's are on temporary hold, as the guys in the US figure out how they are going to test them. I suspended orders until they figure it out, it should only be a few more days at tops. I have the one tower here is you absolutely MUST have this and want to jump the cue, but it will cost you double if you don't wish to wait.
We are down to the last 2 NOS A1200's and they were just found last night. These are the HD units with 40Meg drives. There may be more, but I can't guarantee it. The non HD units are all sold- including the ones I had here in Edmonton (and shipped)  All this info is on my blogs in case you missed it.

[quarkx]

I have a new blog and put a whole bunch more stuff up for sale today.
http://amigalounge.com

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Love your blogs, glad to give you an extra "bump" here on the forums, not sure how I could ship a hooker to Canada, though.  Also that might be illegal?  :laughing:

[quarkx]

na, after a quick check on both Canada Post and USPS, Hookers do not appear to be on their banned item list, so it looks totally legal to ship them through the mail.....
LOL

[Darth_X]

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/208904-atari-st-floppy-drive-repaired/
(I know its Atari, but Amiga drives get mentioned here and are similar)

Might want to look into how to repair Amiga floppy drives by replacing caps.

[Darrin]

Just bookmarked your site.  Any 8 bit stuff?

[quarkx]

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/208904-atari-st-floppy-drive-repaired/
(I know its Atari, but Amiga drives get mentioned here and are similar)

Might want to look into how to repair Amiga floppy drives by replacing caps.

Cheaper to by new drives from Amigakit when all is said and done, but thanks for the suggestion.

[quarkx]

Just bookmarked your site.  Any 8 bit stuff?

Keep a watch out, 2 SX 64 's in today's blog and I guess we have 2 pallets stacked 5 feet high of NOS 1541 floppy drives. All NTSC LOL

[Darrin]

Keep a watch out, 2 SX 64 's in today's blog and I guess we have 2 pallets stacked 5 feet high of NOS 1541 floppy drives. All NTSC LOL

Wow, two SX64's!  Nice find.  Commodore must have made billions of those floppy drives.  I have a couple attached to my machines at home and an unboxed 1541C on a shelf.  Got to love them, decades old, never been cleaned, still work like a charm.

[Darth_X]

Cheaper to by new drives from Amigakit when all is said and done, but thanks for the suggestion.

Indeed. Certainly makes sense to put working drives in right away for these NOS Amigas you are selling.

But I also like the idea of being able to repair floppy drives, including the rare 1.76MB HD Amiga floppy drives.

[quarkx]

Indeed. Certainly makes sense to put working drives in right away for these NOS Amigas you are selling.

But I also like the idea of being able to repair floppy drives, including the rare 1.76MB HD Amiga floppy drives.

I think you are mixing up the A4000 Towers (but I could be wrong) from what the BboAh says, is that the Commodore tower had the Floppy Drive:   1 x Internal 1.76MB Floppy Drive.
The AT tower just used:
1 x Internal 880K (Actually a PC 1.44MB drive converted for Amiga use)

In this case, it is a Sony drive, which were notorious in that era for just dying from lack of use. We went though tons of them at my old computer shop, but they were dirt cheap also- I think back in '99 we were paying like $5 each if we ordered them by the case.
AmigaKit is probably doing the exact same modifications at AT was doing to their drives, so they are probably the closest thing to the originals as you will find.

[Darth_X]

I think you are mixing up the A4000 Towers (but I could be wrong) from what the BboAh says, is that the Commodore tower had the Floppy Drive:   1 x Internal 1.76MB Floppy Drive.
The AT tower just used:
1 x Internal 880K (Actually a PC 1.44MB drive converted for Amiga use)

In this case, it is a Sony drive, which were notorious in that era for just dying from lack of use. We went though tons of them at my old computer shop, but they were dirt cheap also- I think back in '99 we were paying like $5 each if we ordered them by the case.
AmigaKit is probably doing the exact same modifications at AT was doing to their drives, so they are probably the closest thing to the originals as you will find.

More of an assumption than a mix up, the A3000T 040 came with a 1.76MB floppy drive, I just assumed the A4000Ts would also. But C= only made a small number of A4000Ts, so I guess the other companies that made A4000Ts (Amiga Technologies, Quickpak) only used 880k drives?

Shame about the Sony floppy drives. You would think Sony would make a higher quality product, but even back then they didn't! :-(

[zipper]

so I guess the other companies that made A4000Ts (Amiga Technologies, Quickpak) only used 880k drives?

Yes . AT at least.