The box with the rest of the cables, mice, etc, arrived - but the monitor cable is a DB23 to DB9 for use with a Commodore 1080/1084 monitor.
I had to order a DB23-to-HD15 adapter cable. It will take a few days to arrive, so all the Amiga work is put off for another week or so. Hopefully my LCD will sync up to the native Amiga video frequency coming out of the A4000.
The Amiga 4000 and Amiga 2000 arrived today, along with their keyboards. The box of other parts and cables should be here tomorrow.
The 4K came with a slightly-fuzzy battery (which I quickly removed), a Retina BLT Z3 video card, an Emplant card, and a Warp Engine 68040 accelerator.
The 2K came with a GVP Impact A3001 68030 acclerator and two floppy drives. It had a fuzzy battery as well, and it was removed as soon as possible.
If the 4K works properly, the only thing I’ll need will be a Zorro-bus Ethernet card.
I went to install the replacement Amiga 2000 power supply, and discovered that I’d plugged the original power supply into the motherboard incorrectly, with the connector off-by-one. d’oh!
The original works fine:
At least now I have a spare, and it only cost me $12.
I won the eBay auction for a replacement Amiga 2000 power supply, but it hasn’t arrived yet.
A few days after I made the last Amiga-related post, I lucked into a great deal. This weekend an Amiga 4000 and another Amiga 2000 will be on their way to me, and I’m only having to pay for packing and shipping.
If anyone else has Amiga gear that they’d like to see go to a good home (what I can’t use, I’ll configure and give to friends), please give me a shout.
The Amiga 2000 arrived today. It came with KickStart 2.04 ROMs, and I *think* an ECS-chipset motherboard.
Now I just need an Amiga mouse, a SCSI hard drive (from my junk pile), and a set of Workbench 2.1 install floppies.
Update: Looks like the power supply is toast (no surprise; the machine sat in storage for 10 years). That’s not a problem - I’ve got an under-$10 bid now on eBay for a replacement, and if that falls through it’s an easy homebrew fix using a normal ATX power supply.
Thanks to a friend in Austin, I have an Amiga 2000 system on the way! Getting it nicely equipped and upgraded will be fun; I was a huge Amiga fanatic from ‘90-93 during high school when I had an Amiga 1000. I owned an A3000 in ‘95, but never really got into using it as I discovered Sun workstations and Solaris around the same time. Unfortunately the friend that was storing the A3000 for me lost it during a move a couple years later.
Anyway, I’ve got an Amiga 2000 with a flickerfixer, A2091 SCSI card, floppy drive, ‘030 accelerator, and an unknown amount of memory on the way. I’ll need to add a hard drive (of which I have plenty), external CD-ROM (got tons of those too), and find a mouse.
If anybody reading this has Amiga bits they’d like to get rid of, let me know.
Things I need to eventually pick up for the A2000:
- Kickstart 3.1 ROMs (so I can run AmigaOS 3.9)
- An extra floppy drive or two, along with lots of DSDD 3.5″ floppies
- PS/2 adapters for the keyboard and mouse (so I can use it on my KVM)
- Ethernet card (anywhere from $50-200, looks like)
- RTG or Picasso96 high-resolution video card
- PowerPC accelerator card (yeah, right, unobtanium)
- Spare power supply
I read on MetaFilter that Fred Fish passed away on April 20th at the age of 51.
I spent many an hour in 1990-93 using the (new, expensive) external CD-ROM drive attached to a PS/2 Model 30 at school, copying software from a Fred Fish CD-ROM to floppies so I could run it on my Amiga at home…
I finally ended my 3-year love affair with the Linksys WRT54G (currently running DD-WRT firmware), and replaced my last unit tonight with the new Apple Airport Extreme.
I’d already replaced one of my WRT54Gs (the one acting as a wireless-to-wired bridge in my middle bedroom that acts as a “projects lab”) with an Airport Express a couple of weeks ago.
So, now my entire network is based around Apple products. So far, it works great - the only stumbling block was a bit of manual configuration for the WDS setup that lets me bridge two wired networks with the wireless connection.
I don’t have any 802.11n devices yet, but plan on picking up another Extreme in a couple of months to replace the existing Express.
Went to CompUSA tonight and bought another gig of RAM for the MacBook, intending to upgrade it to a max of 2G (I currently have 1.5G in it).
Got home, installed the RAM, powered up the system - OSX sees all 2G. Great! Then I powered down, put the memory slot cover back on, put the battery back in, and fired everything back up.
BONGNGNGNG
*clunk*
*clunk*
*clunk*
The 60G drive crashed, hard. I needed to take the system in for AppleCare service to get the discolored top plastics replaced, but I wanted to be able to do it on MY schedule and not because other parts of the system had failed as well.
The MacBook has worked fine as my main system for the past week, I wish it hadn’t chosen tonight to kill itself.
update: Instead of dealing with the Galleria Apple Store again, I just called AppleCare and they’re going to send me a postage-paid box to send the system in to them via DHL for repairs. I should have the box tomorrow, and the system will hopefully be back within a week with new top plastics and a new hard drive.
Someone from the Apple Store called this afternoon and said that my iMac was repaired and ready for pickup.
Both the 20″ LCD panel and the SuperDrive were replaced (under warranty).
Thanks to Aaron and the other hardware techs at the Houston Galleria Apple Store (just no thanks to the particular Genius I dealt with on Sunday afternoon when I dropped the machine off).
Interesting fact: LG makes the LCDs for the 20″ Core Duo iMac systems.