Glendower
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Hi! I just wanted to introduce myself before I started trying to sell some things that I have amassed over the years. I didn't grow up using Amigas (I definitely missed out), so I don't have any particular nostalgia for them. I only say that to make it clear that I came into them "naturally." I've always known about them, and would kind of seethe with jealousy when looking at the back of software boxes at the mall and see how much better the Amiga graphics looked than the IBM-compatible screen shots next to them. A few years ago... I think quite a few now-- the late aughts-- I had a friend who was going on about how much he missed his Amiga and I remembered that my great aunt, who was a graphic designer, had used one. She had long-since moved onto Macs, so I called her and asked about it and whether she still had it. She did and she handed it over. What I ended up with was an A2000 with a Video Toaster, bridge board, 030 upgrade, hardcard... it was pretty loaded. She must have spent around $10K on it in the 90s!
I was immediately enamored with it. Yeah, it was out of date, but just seeing what some people had in the 80s and 90s was fascinating! Over the next couple of years, I added an A3000, A4000 040, an A2065, A2386sx, a Picasso II, and a Cybervision 64. I updated ROMs, put newer visions of Workbench on them and just had a ball! There were even a few games that supported my MT-32, and that was kind of fun to see with an Amiga!
Anyway, because these aren't deeply engrained in my soul, I put them away one day and they've been sitting sadly in my closet for a while. I still love them and think they're very cool, but I think I'm going to sell (almost) everything that wasn't part of what my aunt gave me. There are people out there who really care a lot more and more deeply about this than I do, and I'm really squandering these systems.
Yesterday I removed the leaky batteries after stumbling across the A2386sx board (it has a Cyrix piggyback CPU on it, too... I don't know how I didn't know that i had this in my cache of things)... I still need to do some post clean-up testing, but the 4000 didn't get much corrosion on the motherboard and neither did the A2386sx.
Anyway, I'll probably be posting a lot of this stuff soon. I know that this might come across as mercenary, but it really is a shame to have all of this gear just sitting here. I hope to get the A2000 back into semi-regular use... I'll have to decide what to keep (losing the 040 is going to be mentally hard...).
Anyway, it's nice to see people who are excited about this kind of stuff!
I was immediately enamored with it. Yeah, it was out of date, but just seeing what some people had in the 80s and 90s was fascinating! Over the next couple of years, I added an A3000, A4000 040, an A2065, A2386sx, a Picasso II, and a Cybervision 64. I updated ROMs, put newer visions of Workbench on them and just had a ball! There were even a few games that supported my MT-32, and that was kind of fun to see with an Amiga!
Anyway, because these aren't deeply engrained in my soul, I put them away one day and they've been sitting sadly in my closet for a while. I still love them and think they're very cool, but I think I'm going to sell (almost) everything that wasn't part of what my aunt gave me. There are people out there who really care a lot more and more deeply about this than I do, and I'm really squandering these systems.
Yesterday I removed the leaky batteries after stumbling across the A2386sx board (it has a Cyrix piggyback CPU on it, too... I don't know how I didn't know that i had this in my cache of things)... I still need to do some post clean-up testing, but the 4000 didn't get much corrosion on the motherboard and neither did the A2386sx.
Anyway, I'll probably be posting a lot of this stuff soon. I know that this might come across as mercenary, but it really is a shame to have all of this gear just sitting here. I hope to get the A2000 back into semi-regular use... I'll have to decide what to keep (losing the 040 is going to be mentally hard...).
Anyway, it's nice to see people who are excited about this kind of stuff!
AmiBay!
I have some cr2032 holders, but they're on leads and aren't direct mount, so I haven't installed them yet. It's not as elegant of a solution.
