Poster | Thread |
A1200
| |
My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 16:36:35
| | [ #1 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 5-May-2003 Posts: 3092
From: Westhall, UK | | |
|
| Got an original C= Amiga yesterday. A friend gave me one as he had a couple. Machine itself is in nice working condition except for a few missing keys and the size expansion cover is missing. If anyone has an A1000 keyboard (working or not) so I can make a good one, and/or the expansion cover, I am prepared to pay top dollar for these parts to give this machine a new lease of life.
A photo of the beast:
_________________ Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1 |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
pavlor
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 18:14:45
| | [ #2 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 10-Jul-2005 Posts: 9597
From: Unknown | | |
|
| |
Status: Offline |
|
|
Amiboy
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 18:22:42
| | [ #3 ] |
|
|
|
Super Member |
Joined: 21-Dec-2003 Posts: 1056
From: At home (probably) | | |
|
| @A1200
You lucky bugger! I hope you have fun with it.
Really making me think about dragging my 1200 set-up (see sig) back out of the loft and trying to get it running again. Last edited by Amiboy on 01-Aug-2014 at 06:23 PM.
_________________ Live Long and keep Amigaing!
A1200, Power Tower, TF1260 128MB RAM, 68060 Rev 6, OS3.9 BB2, HD-Floppy, Mediator TX+ PCI, Voodoo 3 3000, Soundblaster 4.1, TV Card, Spider USB, 100MBit Ethernet, 16GB CF HD, 52xCDRom. |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
Severin
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 20:14:42
| | [ #4 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 19-Aug-2003 Posts: 2740
From: Gloucestershire UK | | |
|
| @A1200
I used to have one of those when I lived in Halesworth and Southwold, hope you have as much fun with it as I did. _________________ OS4 Rocks X1000 beta tester, Sam440 Flex (733)
Visit the Official OS4 Support Site for more help.
It may be that your sole purpose is to serve as a warning to others. |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
g0blin
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 20:17:26
| | [ #5 ] |
|
|
|
Cult Member |
Joined: 31-Mar-2009 Posts: 666
From: Unknown | | |
|
| |
Status: Offline |
|
|
A1200
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 20:27:50
| | [ #6 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 5-May-2003 Posts: 3092
From: Westhall, UK | | |
|
| @Severin
Quote:
Severin wrote: @A1200
I used to have one of those when I lived in Halesworth and Southwold, hope you have as much fun with it as I did. |
Interesting that, I live in Westhall which is right between the two!_________________ Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1 |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
wawa
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 21:14:42
| | [ #7 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 21-Jan-2008 Posts: 6259
From: Unknown | | |
|
| this is probably the best designed amiga ever. i have never had one, i doubt anyone in poland was lucky and wealthy enough to put their hands on it, i knew only atari and xt owners, but this piece of hardware keeps up to today standards alright, even though thats not much. |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
pavlor
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 21:20:43
| | [ #8 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 10-Jul-2005 Posts: 9597
From: Unknown | | |
|
| @wawa
I think there was some sort of embargo (for eastern european countries) on Amiga computers when A1000 was in production (1985-1987). After 1989, A500 and A2000 were natural choice. Last edited by pavlor on 01-Aug-2014 at 09:20 PM.
|
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
wawa
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 21:24:14
| | [ #9 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 21-Jan-2008 Posts: 6259
From: Unknown | | |
|
| @pavlor
i dont remember, but likely, fact is ive never seen it in reality. |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
Severin
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 1-Aug-2014 21:53:15
| | [ #10 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 19-Aug-2003 Posts: 2740
From: Gloucestershire UK | | |
|
| @A1200
I've been through Westhall many times but not in the last 30 years. also lived in Metfield and near Huntingfield. went to school in Bungay etc... _________________ OS4 Rocks X1000 beta tester, Sam440 Flex (733)
Visit the Official OS4 Support Site for more help.
It may be that your sole purpose is to serve as a warning to others. |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
klx300r
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 2-Aug-2014 5:11:14
| | [ #11 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 4-Mar-2008 Posts: 3837
From: Toronto, Canada | | |
|
| @A1200
a classic beauty indeed and the ONLY True Amiga regardless of what camp you support
I found a spare keyboard for parts for my A1000 over at Amibay for a fair price so that's most likely your best bet. The keyboard case looks like it needs a light Retrobrite treatment and you'll have fun dismantling the A1000 as it's built like a tank with a gazilion different types of screws so keep things organized.
Here's a pic of my man cave where my A1000 has a good chunk of it for inspiration in your rebuild
A1000 King of my man cave! Last edited by klx300r on 02-Aug-2014 at 05:12 AM.
_________________ ____________________________ c64-2sids, A1000, A1200T-060@50(finally working!),A4000-CSMKIII ! My Master Miggies- Amiga 1000 & AmigaOne X1000 ! mancave-ramblings X1000 I BELIEVE |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
Fairdinkem
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 2-Aug-2014 7:31:32
| | [ #12 ] |
|
|
|
Cult Member |
Joined: 23-Feb-2010 Posts: 517
From: Victoria, Australia | | |
|
| @klx300r
That is one seriously awesome man cave well done! _________________ Amiga A1200T - TF1260 - R9200 - Indivision AGA MK3 Amiga A500 - PiStorm EMU68 Pegasos 2 G4 - AmigaOS 4.1 FE / MorphOS 3.16 |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
klx300r
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 2-Aug-2014 7:38:57
| | [ #13 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 4-Mar-2008 Posts: 3837
From: Toronto, Canada | | |
|
| |
Status: Offline |
|
|
g0blin
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 2-Aug-2014 8:17:27
| | [ #14 ] |
|
|
|
Cult Member |
Joined: 31-Mar-2009 Posts: 666
From: Unknown | | |
|
| @klx300r
Wow. I've always dreamed something like that cave, but for the time being most of my machines are down in the basement.....
Either them or ... my wife! _________________ GDG Entertainment
Cybersphere Page |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
NovaCoder
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 2-Aug-2014 13:00:42
| | [ #15 ] |
|
|
|
Regular Member |
Joined: 16-Apr-2008 Posts: 490
From: Melbourne (Australia) | | |
|
| @Fairdinkem
Quote:
Fairdinkem wrote: @klx300r
That is one seriously awesome man cave well done! |
Yep, very nice :) |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
klx300r
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 3-Aug-2014 6:13:59
| | [ #16 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 4-Mar-2008 Posts: 3837
From: Toronto, Canada | | |
|
| @NovaCoder
thanks! you're recent 060 ports were my motivation for upgrading my 040 to 060 ..now just to get this darn Mediator & P96 playing nice so i can clean up my man cave & start havin fun hopefully soon _________________ ____________________________ c64-2sids, A1000, A1200T-060@50(finally working!),A4000-CSMKIII ! My Master Miggies- Amiga 1000 & AmigaOne X1000 ! mancave-ramblings X1000 I BELIEVE |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
A1200
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 18-Sep-2014 12:49:09
| | [ #17 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 5-May-2003 Posts: 3092
From: Westhall, UK | | |
|
| Finally got an expansion cover by buying another A1000! Its a USA model but I figure that, apart from the PSU I will have adequate spares for the European machine. Not sure if I mentioned earlier I also sourced a very good condition keyboard, so i now have the keyboard with the missing keys for spare parts. _________________ Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1 |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
Xenic
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 18-Sep-2014 16:32:26
| | [ #18 ] |
|
|
|
Super Member |
Joined: 2-Feb-2004 Posts: 1246
From: Pennsylvania, USA | | |
|
| @A1200 Now all you need is a monitor that will sync low enough and the original monitor cable (32 pin connector?). Then you can insert the Kickstart disk; wait a few minutes; remove the Kickstart disk and insert the WorkBench disk; wait a few minutes; remove the WorkBench disk and insert a program disk. When the program asks for the WorkBench disk, remove the program disk, insert the WorkBench disk; wait 30 seconds; remove the WorkBench disk and reinsert the program disk. If the program fills the program disk, then you can reinsert the WorkBench disk, start the format command; remove the WorkBench disk and insert a data disk to format. When the formatting is done, remove the data disk because you did something wrong and need to reinsert the WorkBench disk to reboot.
Things have come a long way since the A1000. It seemed great at that time and was a vast improvement over an 8bit home computer connected to a TV. However, it's a museum piece now and not really usable for much. Have fun restoring it though
_________________ X1000 with 2GB memory & OS4.1FE |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
A1200
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 18-Sep-2014 17:09:01
| | [ #19 ] |
|
|
|
Elite Member |
Joined: 5-May-2003 Posts: 3092
From: Westhall, UK | | |
|
| @Xenic
Indeed. I use an A1200 / 030 / CFHD / 64MB etc. etc. for my Amiga'ing these days but the A1000 is THE Amiga and apart from powering it up or playing the odd OCS game I can't see me doing a lot with it but Oooooohhh it looks nice. _________________ Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1 |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|
C64er
| |
Re: My First A1000 Posted on 23-Oct-2014 12:09:15
| | [ #20 ] |
|
|
|
Member |
Joined: 22-Jul-2010 Posts: 33
From: SW Ohio, USA | | |
|
| @A1200
Very nice! Was my very first Amiga in 1990.
C64ER |
|
Status: Offline |
|
|