MikeyBad
New member
So after a lifetime of computer adventures, I have officially retired. I spent a rather large amount of life teaching myself about computer security. I was a member of the USAF CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) before anyone was throwing around the term CyberSecurity. I held a CISSP for 24 years .... only recently letting it expire. Most of this time I worked on Satellite Systems ... most of them classified .... most of them experimental. There is a lot more to this story ... but that is for another day ....
I acquired all of this computer knowlege starting with a teletype connected to a University mainframe back in High School. After joining the USAF, I was thrown into working on a HP-1000 which was used to automate troubleshoot/repair of the EF-111A AN-ALQ-99 electronic jamming system. The HP used a language called ATLAS .... It was during this time I bought a Atari 800 for home use ....Later an Atari 800 XL ... Followed by an Amiga 500 ....Amiga 2000HD.. Amiga 3000T ... I taught myself how to program starting with 6502 machine code on the Atari and 68000 on the Amiga .... At work (USAF still) I started programming a AT&T 3B2 600G using the C language -> this was also my introduction into Unix. IBM-PCs were everywhere ... but I also got to program IBM 360/370 machine code, Sun 4.1.3 in C, and later Solaris 2.5+ .... Irix 6 on SGI machines ....also got to program a fiber shared memory platform called scramnet ...At home as the internet became a thing, I joined the AmiTCP effort -> read a boatload of RFCs, implemented a few (i.e. SMTP and a SMTP-like client) ... Eventually family took over and my playtime at home became hard to come by .... I right in the middle of writing a LPR daemon/client (See: Aminet) when my son was born pre-maturely ... never got back to programming on the Amiga - actually got pulled into a video streaming effort ... another long story ....
Most of the machines I used to gather this knowlege have been stored away in my computer closet. My wife has now demanded I take steps to empty the closet... I started last week ... It has been a happy sad historical journey .... Which brings me to why I became a member here at Amibay...
I have....which are being refurbished and tested ... and will be available for sale in the very near future .... a stack of Amigas....
There is:
Just the boxes:
Two (2) Amiga 2000s -> one has a GVP 030 card in it
Two (2) Amiga 2000HDs -> one is stock and running WB 1.3 just as if it was purchased yesterday
One (1) Amiga 2500
Amiga 3000 - Not working at the moment ... it is a little ruff - looks like it had a toaster in it at one time.
Amiga 3000T - My baby ... Has GVP 040, GVP I/O extender, Picasso II --- almost maxed out in hard drives.
Monitors:
Amiga 1080 - Working
Amiga 1084 - Working
Commodore 1960 - Needs vertical sync adjustment
Mice:
Five (5) Amiga mice - standard all working
One (1) Amiga Mouse (Pregnant - Will go with 3000T)
One (1) After market mouse
One (1) Gravis Mousestick
Keyboards - Four (4) standard - One (1) additional one with a broken key (need to look into fixing if possible)
Speaking of books ... Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals - All 5 books
I am mentioning all this here so as to give everyone a chance to prepare for the eventual sale to those interested ...
Enjoy
Mikey (AKA Michael M Brockman)
I acquired all of this computer knowlege starting with a teletype connected to a University mainframe back in High School. After joining the USAF, I was thrown into working on a HP-1000 which was used to automate troubleshoot/repair of the EF-111A AN-ALQ-99 electronic jamming system. The HP used a language called ATLAS .... It was during this time I bought a Atari 800 for home use ....Later an Atari 800 XL ... Followed by an Amiga 500 ....Amiga 2000HD.. Amiga 3000T ... I taught myself how to program starting with 6502 machine code on the Atari and 68000 on the Amiga .... At work (USAF still) I started programming a AT&T 3B2 600G using the C language -> this was also my introduction into Unix. IBM-PCs were everywhere ... but I also got to program IBM 360/370 machine code, Sun 4.1.3 in C, and later Solaris 2.5+ .... Irix 6 on SGI machines ....also got to program a fiber shared memory platform called scramnet ...At home as the internet became a thing, I joined the AmiTCP effort -> read a boatload of RFCs, implemented a few (i.e. SMTP and a SMTP-like client) ... Eventually family took over and my playtime at home became hard to come by .... I right in the middle of writing a LPR daemon/client (See: Aminet) when my son was born pre-maturely ... never got back to programming on the Amiga - actually got pulled into a video streaming effort ... another long story ....
Most of the machines I used to gather this knowlege have been stored away in my computer closet. My wife has now demanded I take steps to empty the closet... I started last week ... It has been a happy sad historical journey .... Which brings me to why I became a member here at Amibay...
I have....which are being refurbished and tested ... and will be available for sale in the very near future .... a stack of Amigas....
There is:
Just the boxes:
Two (2) Amiga 2000s -> one has a GVP 030 card in it
Two (2) Amiga 2000HDs -> one is stock and running WB 1.3 just as if it was purchased yesterday
One (1) Amiga 2500
Amiga 3000 - Not working at the moment ... it is a little ruff - looks like it had a toaster in it at one time.
Amiga 3000T - My baby ... Has GVP 040, GVP I/O extender, Picasso II --- almost maxed out in hard drives.
Monitors:
Amiga 1080 - Working
Amiga 1084 - Working
Commodore 1960 - Needs vertical sync adjustment
Mice:
Five (5) Amiga mice - standard all working
One (1) Amiga Mouse (Pregnant - Will go with 3000T)
One (1) After market mouse
One (1) Gravis Mousestick
Keyboards - Four (4) standard - One (1) additional one with a broken key (need to look into fixing if possible)
Speaking of books ... Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals - All 5 books
I am mentioning all this here so as to give everyone a chance to prepare for the eventual sale to those interested ...
Enjoy
Mikey (AKA Michael M Brockman)
