The saga continues... (Password lockout)
This system has a hard drive and two 3.5 floppy drives. When turned on, a window appears. In the title bar at the top of the window it reads, "Amiga Dos." In the window itself, text appears in this order -
"Copywrite 1985-1991 Commodore Amiga, Inc.
Amiga release 2.1, Kickstart 37.175, Workbench 38.21, ARexx Version 1.15 Copywrite by William S. Hawes. Then- (something similar to...) This computer is under the control of John Doe (the actual name of the original owner, not John Doe). Then the word "Password" followed by a blinking cursor. I can boot from a Workbench disk (using the right floppy drive) and the password info does NOT appear. I then have access to the machine. I think i saw the word Zorro somewhere on the screen, possibly a folder name.
Under the hood. Motherboard-Copywrite 1988 Rev 6.2. There is one card, the full length of the machine front to back. The card appears, if viewed from the back, with a D shell connector. (There is another small card that may be the Nordsoft card. I'll explain later.) This long card has a Quantum hard drive sadled to the side of it. Looks like an IDE. The ribbon data cable has two female connectors. The middle one is attached to this card while the last one is attached to the drive itself. See photo here -http://photos.yahoo.com/topperyh
Image is from another site with markings on it using Photoshop. Open another browser window along with this one and note the following-The IDE card is located at the red rectangle. The black rectangle is a card that is not in my system. The white circle is present with a black lead similar to a volt meter lead hooked to a leg on the chip shown. This lead goes to the underside of small card (the Nordsoft card?) the area marked in yellow. The yellow arrow points to an empty chip slot; it is here that the small card (which has an empty chip slot similar to a bios chip slot) is attached with long legs (aprox. 1/4 inch ) on its underside.
Try this Yahoo photo storage location for photo. Sorry for all the Yahoo ads here, but click on the "Amiga" name to see photo.
http://photos.yahoo.com/topperyhGreg