I just picked up this little gem and wanted to share it with you all. :) It is an Amiga 3500 that was in use at Commodore as an internal UUCP server.

It has four SCSI hard drives and two SCSI CD-ROM drives.

A guy here in town had it in his garage and posted an ad to get rid of it. I got it for nothing.


s00p's Amiga 3500

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@gdanko

You lucky ####!

It's next to impossible to find treasures like that in the UK.

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@nicholas

Seriously. I am happy to have found such a gem!

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@gdanko

If you ever fancy giving away other such gems, just send me a pmail and i'll gladly take them off your hands!

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@nicholas
I think I will keep this one. :)!!!

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@gdanko

Some guys are just too lucky. I´ve been trying to make a similar find myself for some time now. I have kept an eye on some local second hand stores to see if they sell any used Amigas at a low prize but the best I have gotten hold of so far is an A500 with a bad PSU...

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@Niolator

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Niolator wrote: @gdanko Some guys are just too lucky. I´ve been trying to make a similar find myself for some time now. I have kept an eye on some local second hand stores to see if they sell any used Amigas at a low prize but the best I have gotten hold of so far is an A500 with a bad PSU...

I got an A500-Plus for £10 offf some bloke on the bus on the way to work!

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Ya Husayn!

@gdanko

An A3500 is a mighty fine find... let me know if you find any more that you don't need and I'll help you dispose of them. :)

Too bad you're site seem to be hacked, would love to see some pictures of the beauty.

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@gdanko

I wish I was able to get the case for an A3500. A year or so ago I blew up the motherboard for my A3000T and was desperate enough to buy an A3500 motherboard (without the customer chip installed). I was fortunate enough to find another A3000T before tackling the project of getting the chips into the 3500 motherboard. Although I do still have it kicking around.

I had never heard of a 3500 until I found this motherboard at centsible computers. Then I did a little research...too bad they didn't distribute more of them.

@Brian
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Too bad you're site seem to be hacked, would love to see some pictures of the beauty.

Site weasn't hacked. Some people can get to it, some can't. I need to contact my DNS provider.

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@RC
The power switch is in the off position so the thing won't power up. I need to tinker with it.. but ever so carefully. :)

I am going to login and see what kind of Commodore goodies I can find. :)

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@gdanko

Thread moved to Amiga Q&A. More appropriate to have this thread listed in that forum than in Amiga News.

Oh BTW, happy computing!

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@gdanko

Lucky, lucky, lucky! Nice find

I'm impressed to see two video out ports on the back - 15KHz and 31KHz. Wish that they could have done that with more of the Amiga range.

Anyone know what the "Disable" bit (switch? button?) does - what gets disabled??

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lucky ####!!! show us more pictures....

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hmm yours is a rare find indeed most A3500's were blue pcb and blue zorro connectors... which is prety cool if you ask me

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@Chunder

The 3000 series has a built-in scan doubler (Amber) to turn the 15KHz LoRes and HiRes modes into 31KHz for the VGA port. The 'disable' switch turns off the scan doubler so you can use SuperHiRes (a 31KHz mode) directly.

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Note to self: Learn to open the manual before answering!

SuperHiRes is a 15KHz mode, it just has double the number of pixels across. The 'Display Enhancer' circuitry (i.e. Amber) can't handle the pixel clock rate so would only show every other pixel. You disable it to show all pixels.

The 31KHz mode is called Productivity mode and is 640x480. The Display Enhancer handles this properly when enabled.
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1989 - 500 / 1991 - 3000 / 1997 - Genesis Flyer 1200T / 2003 - A1XE

I will try to reverse the wires on the key switch so that it can be powered on while in the locked position. This should be safe, right? :)

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@gdanko

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I just picked up this little gem and wanted to share it with you all. :) It is an Amiga 3500 that was in use at Commodore as an internal UUCP server.

LUCKY B(beep)D!!

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I did'nt even know there was an Amiga 3500

@Andre4s
http://amiga.emugaming.com/a3500t.html

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