Hello from Central UK

[roy_bates]

So is a revision 6 a "B2000" Roy? I'm sure I bought a B2000 all those years ago!?

I'll have a look for a battery.

yes mate,dont worry about calling it a a2000 a b2000 or even a 1500.
its only the revision that matters for the most part.

also if you want to have a look at the battery open it up proper,a leaking battery is a nigtmare if left.if your any good with a soldering iron remove it,or cut it off the motherbaord.

 

[temp]

nice pistures

 

[Merlin]

HARDWARE PRON ALERT!!!

:drool: :inlove:

Me likes!! Lots of getting the top off and open case shots - fnarr!!

/Puts kidneys on a certain auction site, to raise money

 

[SimonJ]

Glad you like it, it cost a fortune, I must have been mad

Arranging to borrow the monitor back (gave it away years ago, family fortunately) and will fire it up after it's 20 year slumber. Wonder if that is wise..

Is the video lead integral to the monitor? (It was the matching Commodore monitor) or do I have a missing lead to hunt out..

 

[roy_bates]

be carefull when powering up old equipment thats not been on for years,especially monitors.

 

[SimonJ]

Yes, I'll stand back.. Quite intrigued now, wonder if it will work Can't even remember if it came straight on or needed disks. I "think" there was an option to choose which side to start, the PC or the Amiga but again don't remember, perhaps the option was on the Amiga desktop.

 

[roy_bates]

if its working,it'll come on straight away.

just be carefull with monitors that havent been in use for years.

 

[SimonJ]

Is this the monitor lead? Or is the lead integral to the monitor? I can see a 25 pin video connector on the base unit but also a phono video connector.

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Found this bag in the packing, was this the video lead?

 

[Merlin]

The three RCA plugs to the DIN plug could be the monitor cable, but it could equally be a cassette player cable for another machine, or a monitor lead for a Commodore 64 (that's my guess).

The second one is a Centronics parallel port printer cable.

What you need depends on the model of monitor you had. Some like the Commodore 1084 and Philips CM8833 need a 23-pin to 9-pin cable, others like the Commodore 1942 have the correct cable built-in.

Can you recall what make and model the monitor was?

 

[roy_bates]

have you got a commodore 64 knocking around somewhere?

anyway,the monitor lead will have a 23 pin connector on one end and a 9pin or a din plug on the other.
or even just a lead comming from the monitor,depending on the monitor you had.

 

[SimonJ]

No joy on the monitor unfortunately, it's gone missing over the years, presumably cleared out. I've got hold of another monitor though with video in via phono, I presume I can connect direct to the 2000's Mono Video phono connector?

 

[roy_bates]

yeah but it will be black and white as you know.

 

[SimonJ]

Lashed it all up, stood back, flicked the power switch and it just came on! After 20 years! No funny noises, smells etc but needs the start-up disk, I remember now. Will have another rummage around.

Got this far anyway :

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It's alive Keyboard and mouse don't appear to be working though, which of the two 9 pin sockets does the mouse use? Or are they both the same?

 

[Zetr0]

Hello Simon

Your A2000 is equipped with following cards

A2088XT PC Card

• 8088 @ 4.77 MHz
• optional 8087 FPU
• 512 kB RAM
• 16 kB XT compatible BIOS
• 360 kB 5.25" floppy drive supplied
• 720 kB 3.5" - uses external Amiga floppy drives on the external connector
• CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes selectable with jumpers
• can use Amiga parallel ports
• could be upgraded to 386 with the Roßmöller 386si

For more info and resource click here

Your A2000 also has

8bit ISA ST504 and XT-IDE (8bit)

• 20 or 40MB ST-277 XTIDE Hard Disk
• 720k 3.5" or 5.25" Diskette

Back in the day Commodore sold these units labelled as A1500, which is an A2000 combined with an XT2088 card and ST504 controller. It was shipped with two Amiga SD Floppy drives (960K Amiga and 720K Dos Compatibility), 1x 5.25" Floppy Drive (dedicated to the PC side) and 20 or 40MB ST XT (8Bit) IDE Hard Disk.

You could if you wanted to (as I have done) populate the two 8bit ISA ports with the small extra connector and then you can connect 2MB Video Cards as well, with some software I believe that you can use the A2088XT as a bridge card and use the Video Card display on your Amiga.

It is a very good looking system, one I would consider (with the pictures show) a museum piece as it is in fantastic condition. I would suspect that if you take the opportunity to add a small investment of upgrade (say a GVP A2008 / HC8+) you would be heaven with (up to 8MB) Amiga FAST memory, and Hard-Disk storage.

Once you have that, a little time and effort would see you have a huge game library available to run from hard-disk!!


Thanks for sharing your pics.

 

[roy_bates]

the mouse uses port 1 and youll be looking for workbench 1.3 disk.


you sure the keyboard dont work?

 

[SimonJ]

Wow, that's fantastic info Zetr0, thanks. I don't really know much about the machine, not very computer savvy, just wanted one all those years ago mainly because the computer guy where I worked had one and was wild about it, my A500 became inadequate and I caught the 2000 bug but TBH was pretty clueless about the thing. Not much has changed on that front..

Thanks Roy, yes, mouse works now in the left socket and the keyboard works perfectly, I don't know what I was doing wrong before.

Found a start-up disk and got the following, all seems to work I think :

 

[Zetr0]

Word Perfect 5.1!!!! RESULT!!!!!

ahhh good memories!!!