I was very active in collecting, and on this list at the beginning. I
also have a couple A1200’s that need work, and I used to have a couple
A2000’s (those went to Eric Smith probably 15-20 years ago). There is
also a partial A500, unfortunately I think it’s missing the keyboard,
IIRC.
Nice! My current Amiga list is an A500, A600 (under repair, I think I'm
going to replace the fat agnus NTSC chip as a shot in the dark), A2500
(68020, 4MB, SD2SCSI, Toaster) and an A4000T (in great condition but I do
need to recap it. Bought all the caps, not thrilled about the work ahead
of me.)
The memory expansion was purchased new, around ’98. I just removed it
and checked it, and it looks fine.
Ah cool! Good!
Sounds like this belongs in the same category as my two A1200’s, namely
needing some serious surface mount work. I know the one A1200 has an
issue with a chip that overheats. One strange thing about the A600,
it’s already half apart, I’m not sure why, as it worked just fine when I
got it, and I’ve never gotten around to figuring out how to put it back
together. I’ll give it a smell later today. :-)
Yep, same issue. Does the overheating chip A1200 run? There are
replacement motherboards for that but I don't think they pre-populate them
with all the common parts unfortunately. That would be cool if they did.
The A600 might of been apart for adding in a 44 pin IDE to CF card or
something? That is an option that makes the A600 awesome.
I’ve been aware of the A3000 battery issue, I believe that I resolved
this on the original in the late 90’s. Pulling my spare A3000 out of
the box, and checking it has been on my todo list for a long time. :-(
My main A3000 has been nicely upgraded, and was even running AmigaOS
3.9, the last time I was using it. It’s one of two reasons I still have
a 10Base-2 network segment (the other is my DECserver). For a few
years, this was one of my main systems.
Spare A3000 :-) If the batteries are removed from both you should be in a
good position.
About 5 years ago, I picked up a Gotek floppy replacement system, with
the intention of putting it into the A500.
Yea I have one of those with the community firmware and OLED screen in an
external enclosure for Atari ST Mega 2 with bad internal floppy. They are
useful and cheap.
- Ethan
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: Ethan O'Toole
