On a late Friday evening, after the company Christmas party (I think it was December 1991), I go back to the office with my boss. You see, there was a raffle among all the techs (I missed the announcement - I was part of the setup crew for the party and left early) - Everyone was going to get an A3000 in the tech support department, and one was going to get an A3000T! Nobody had won it yet, and it was down to him and I. I immediately replied to the boss when he informed me of this that he should just give it to me - I was going to win it.... (yeah, right...)
So we go back. He walks into his office, grabs his coffee cup and shows me it's contents. It's got 2 folded pieces of paper. He says, "One has a T written on it." I look him in the eyes, reach in without looking away from his gaze, grab a folded piece, and open it, facing him. Would you believe....it had the 'T' on it....
Weeks and months later, I've been on a roll to get this thing well outfitted. It eventually gets:
GVP G-Force 68040/8MB/
40Mhz (yep, the one with 40ns RAM - this was an engineering prototype - never sold @ 40Mhz, only 33Mhz - yup, it was fast)
16MB Motherboard RAM
GVP HC8/6MB (because C= SCSI wasn't that great for removable media drives)
GVP I/O Extender
Hydra Systems Ethernet
A2386 Bridgecard with 4MB RAM
Trident ISA VGA
3Com 3C509 ISA (DR DOS/Netware IPX stack)
AT ISA Multi I/O (IDE, Serial, Parallel)
Various Quantum & Maxtor SCSI HDs of the 200MB-500MB range off the on board SCSI
Ricoh 50MB SCSI removable cartridge (on the GVP SCSI)
SCSI CDROM (on the GVP SCSI)
20MB IDE HD (PC)
USR V.Everything (we used my modem, from a USR Sysop deal) off the I/O Extender
The GVP BBS ran 24/7/365 on MEBBS (I was a beta tester) and had FIDONet (GVP Support Echo)
Kickstart 2.04/Workbench 2.1
It was my daily work system. I did Tech Support as I needed to on the Amiga side (we had a pier to pier Amiga network, with docs and details on products). We had a custom call tracking interface made from Magic PC (DOS) on the PC side, or the order-entry network-based programs (over Netware 3) if something needed to be shipped out.
I miss that system. Couldn't take it with me...
These days, I'm working on re-outfitting my A4000T and others...
TekMagic (ultrasound) 68060/64MB/60Mhz
16MB/2MB on the motherboard
X-Surf 10/100 with RR USB
2x 256MB Zorro II RAM
GVP Spectrum 28/24 2MB, Picasso96 RTG
Kickstart 3.1 (accelerator has 060 FPU fix code native)
2GB IDE DOM (for now)
IDE DVD (not connected at the moment)
Future:
I have a Golden Gate 386/16MB w/FPU on the way, with ISA Video. I'm going to have to see what other PC cards I have in storage...
Overclock the '060 to 66Mhz, possibly higher, is on the list.
PIO2 GAL upgrade kit in hand, need to implement.
1MB Kickstart ROMY components also in hand to install.
If stacking/hacking counts:
A1000 NTSC
Kickstart 2.05/3.1 Switcher (replacement for WCS)
MKL IDE68K w/2GB IDE DOM (dual partitions)
Insider 1000 1.5MB (C00000+ 1,5MB Fast) custom lowered to stack the MKL IDE and RAM
MKL 8MB Under CPU Module
Working on a 14Mhz hack, possibly with RAM - in the design phase at the moment.
(Yep, that's a 10MB A1000)
1x PLIP Box (modified for A1000)
A500 Rev 6a
2MB Chip on motherboard (no wires/no socket PCBs)
Trapdoor clock-only module
GVP HD8/8MB+SCSI2SD V5, 8GB SD module
Kickstart 2.05
A1200
GVP JAWS-II 68030/50Mhz/32MB
4GB CF-IDE (AmigaKit)
Kickstart 3.1
3Com 3C589 PCMCIA LAN
(I have the JAWS SCSI module, not currently installed)
Plus 4x A2000's (two need repair) and 2x A3000Ds (each 16MB, one DRAM, one SCRAM) which are currently my test beds.
A3640 v3.1 updated to a 68060
(I have the parts to transfer it to a Hertel A3640 v3.3 PCB, and to build a second as a Hertel A3660 - spare time...)
I've made an A2000 PP&S 040/28Mhz/32MB into a 68060/56Mhz.
A GVP A2000 68040/33Mhz/64MB will soon follow to '060 land and likely overclock.
A fully populated G-Force 68030/50Mhz/16MB
I have an MNT VA2000 I need to put in one of those systems once done with testing.
Various other network cards (C= 2065, 2x Hydra)
2x GVP HC8/8MB
1x A2091/2MB
1x GVP Series II HC
1x GVP Impact HC2
1x GVP I/O Extender
Microway Flicker-Fixer
A couple of Kickstart switcher modules
A half dozen Gotek USB
Aztek Monster CF (4MB)
Aztek Monster SATA (80GB SSD)
SCSI2SD v6 (8GB)
Quite a number of old SCSI HDs in the 50-320MB range.
PLIP Box Deluxe
Roadshow IP stack (just arrived - probably headed to the A4000T)
v3 (ADF for emergency boots, PLIP network backups), v4 of AMITCP (for those with NICs always in)
I've got various SCART adapters to HDMI and also my original C= 1084, and a few others around.
I've got a Netgear NAS with 5.5TB here, hence all the network gear in the mix.