New member from Canada

[henrycault]

Hi all,

I found this website trying to find infos on configuring my external scsi cd drive under Workbench 3.1.

I have known about amigas since i was a kid, but bought my very first machine a couple of months ago. Now i got 4 machine, but one needs a lot of love/help/prayers to make it work again.

My main interest now, is upgrading my A3000, i love the machine, and im using it to learn...err...well to learn everything amiga.

So i will be on the hunt for some basic cpu and graphic upgrades very soon, because id love to see my workbench in more than 4 colors : BTW im open to suggestions as to what i can/should put inside that machine.

 

[LTAC]

Hi and welcome here Heny!

 

[Slayer]

Greetings!

I myself have around 4 A3000s but I personally never used one as a work horse that was always a B2000... then the jump to A4000s etc...

 

[henrycault]

Well, i could not resist, and i started working on my second A3000 mobo, cleaned a lot of rust, and ordered for 40$ worth of DIP and PLCC sockets, capacitors and logic gates. Hoping it will work again!

 

[LTAC]

What are you doing with PLCC sockets on A3000? :huh:

 

[AndyLandy]

What are you doing with PLCC sockets on A3000? :huh:

Probably replacing sockets for Agnus, Fat Gary, Buster, DMAC, Ramsey or Amber.

Henry: Welcome to Amibay and good luck with resurrecting your A3000. I saved one myself recently, it's really rewarding. I hope it goes well for you!

 

[quarkx]

Henry: Welcome, we need more Canucks here!

 

[henrycault]

Thanks for the greetings.

@Andy: Yes it is actually for the Fat Agnus as i got the mobo with it's socket cracked in the corners. corrosion ate most of the sockets and logic gates 4-5 inches around the battery location. copper traces are still good, so a good rework is in order.

I also heard crawling around the site, that i need to change the buster chip if i am going to use cpu cards and zorro cards in the A3000, are they easy to find?