Hi everyone!
I was born in the late 70s and from when I was six years old on I was addicted to computers. Already in that age I knew that I wouldn't need anything else all my life.
And so the story began. Starting with the C64, through an Amiga 2000, an Amiga 1200 on to an A4000 with 604e, Cybervision PPC and the usual stuff like USB, Networking and CD-Burner.
I was produly using this computer until about 2000, when I had an traumatizing event, which included accidentally scratching the Cyberstorm-PPC.-604e card on a sharp corner of the metal PC-Tower-case my A4000 sat in. I had hot and cold shivers for about three hours and then I very slowly put all the parts laying around the room in a box, stored to the box without any thinking.
I did not dare thinking about it until two weeks, ago. So I grabbed the A4000's board from the ceallar and started trying to fix the obligate battery damage, which I am still working on.
I am not sure if I will be able to fix it completely, as some traces and pads are completely gone and I did not do this fine work before. At least I already cleaned most of the acid from the board, scratched the oxicized traces open, deoxidized and tinned them. Also I cleaned or swapped the damaged parts. MY fingers are shaking and I sometimes get dizzy from nervosity when working on this probably most important memorabilia to me, which of course is horribly expensiver to replace.
Maybe I will buy some other hardware soon, because I usually don't work on stuff that's the only one of it's kind in my home - I always need a backup for knowing there's another thing in case everything goes awfully wrong
(which usually does not happen luckily). If so, then I'd decide for either an A4000D or an CD32 with SX32 Pro, because I want it all (including external floppy port and sufficient WHDLoad performance) in a compact form factor.
My preference would be keeping it mostly original Commodore parts but with some tuning. For example an A4000/40 with genuine A3640 - but with the RCS X-Calibur RAM-expansion for Burst-Mode-FastRAM and the Doubler 4000 for higher CPU clock combined.
I was born in the late 70s and from when I was six years old on I was addicted to computers. Already in that age I knew that I wouldn't need anything else all my life.
And so the story began. Starting with the C64, through an Amiga 2000, an Amiga 1200 on to an A4000 with 604e, Cybervision PPC and the usual stuff like USB, Networking and CD-Burner.
I was produly using this computer until about 2000, when I had an traumatizing event, which included accidentally scratching the Cyberstorm-PPC.-604e card on a sharp corner of the metal PC-Tower-case my A4000 sat in. I had hot and cold shivers for about three hours and then I very slowly put all the parts laying around the room in a box, stored to the box without any thinking.
I did not dare thinking about it until two weeks, ago. So I grabbed the A4000's board from the ceallar and started trying to fix the obligate battery damage, which I am still working on.
I am not sure if I will be able to fix it completely, as some traces and pads are completely gone and I did not do this fine work before. At least I already cleaned most of the acid from the board, scratched the oxicized traces open, deoxidized and tinned them. Also I cleaned or swapped the damaged parts. MY fingers are shaking and I sometimes get dizzy from nervosity when working on this probably most important memorabilia to me, which of course is horribly expensiver to replace.
Maybe I will buy some other hardware soon, because I usually don't work on stuff that's the only one of it's kind in my home - I always need a backup for knowing there's another thing in case everything goes awfully wrong
(which usually does not happen luckily). If so, then I'd decide for either an A4000D or an CD32 with SX32 Pro, because I want it all (including external floppy port and sufficient WHDLoad performance) in a compact form factor.My preference would be keeping it mostly original Commodore parts but with some tuning. For example an A4000/40 with genuine A3640 - but with the RCS X-Calibur RAM-expansion for Burst-Mode-FastRAM and the Doubler 4000 for higher CPU clock combined.
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