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A1200 
My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 15:36:35
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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:

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pavlor 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 17:14:45
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@A1200

Nice!

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Amiboy 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 17:22:42
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@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 05:23 PM.

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Severin 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 19:14:42
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@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.

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g0blin 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 19:17:26
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@A1200

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A1200 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 19:27:50
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@Severin

Quote:

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@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!

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wawa 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 20:14:42
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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.

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pavlor 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 20:20:43
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@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 08:20 PM.

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wawa 
Re: My First A1000
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@pavlor

i dont remember, but likely, fact is ive never seen it in reality.

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Severin 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 1-Aug-2014 20:53:15
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@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...

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klx300r 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 2-Aug-2014 4:11:14
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@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 04:12 AM.

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Fairdinkem 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 2-Aug-2014 6:31:32
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@klx300r

That is one seriously awesome man cave well done!

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klx300r 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 2-Aug-2014 6:38:57
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From: Toronto, Canada

@Fairdinkem

thanks! it's so great to finally get all my systems in one place and in working order
I'm currently working on my 1200T that I'll need to squeeze some space into my limited desk space which seemed endless when I started

My only regret is that it took me 14 years to complete I hate it when life gets in the way of my hobbies lol

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g0blin 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 2-Aug-2014 7:17:27
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@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!

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NovaCoder 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 2-Aug-2014 12:00:42
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From: Melbourne (Australia)

@Fairdinkem

Quote:

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@klx300r

That is one seriously awesome man cave well done!


Yep, very nice :)

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klx300r 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 3-Aug-2014 5:13:59
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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

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A1200 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 18-Sep-2014 11:49:09
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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.

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Xenic 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 18-Sep-2014 15:32:26
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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

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A1200 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 18-Sep-2014 16:09:01
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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.

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C64er 
Re: My First A1000
Posted on 23-Oct-2014 11:09:15
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@A1200

Very nice! Was my very first Amiga in 1990.

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