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Offline DonutKingTopic starter

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Picked up a 1000 today...
« on: October 08, 2011, 04:10:17 AM »
I met a bloke on another forum who had some old miggies sequestered away in his garage.
Took this 1000 home with me. Cosmetically its seen much better days.


But the inside seems to be in good order



I was a bit surprised when I plugged in and was greeted with the 'workbench 1.3 disk' screen.
I thought the 1000's needed a kickstart disk first.
A closer look at the motherboard revealed this:



'Phoenix Enhanced Motherboard for the Amiga 1000'





So apparently this is an upgrade board, but I can't find much more info than that. Can someone tell me exactly what the deal is with this board? Seems to have a 68000 CPU but I don't know what chipset? What other advantages does this have over the original 1000?


Also got this thing:


some sort of memory expansion? Where does this plug into? Can I use it with this phoenix board, or my Amiga 500?
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2011, 04:19:48 AM »
That is quite a find!  It is a real shame that the original owner did not take better care of that A1000.  Specially after spending the substantial amount of money to upgrade the motherboard to a Phoenix board.  

There is more information about it at the "Big Book of Amiga Hardware".

Congrats!
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2011, 04:30:10 AM »
What a nice RARE find!  This one should be restored.

Congrats!
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2011, 05:13:18 AM »
Hi,

@donutking,

First thing is this Amiga 1000 is complete junk, don't even waste your time trying to bring this one back to life, it is obviously way beyond repair, take it and throw it in the trash, but before you do that please inform me of where you live so that I may give you encouragement to go on, after all this miggy is junk and it is not your fault that you had to get rid of it in order to save your valuable much needed money.
Just think of all the donuts you can buy for the cost of restoring that junk computer. I promise you if you tell  me your address the day before you throw it out that I will buy you a dozen dunkin donuts in order to bring much happiness in your life.

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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2011, 06:18:58 AM »
Congratulations, that's quite a find you have there!

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/phoenix
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2011, 10:45:07 AM »
What's all that stuff printed on the motherboard?  :confused:

Sounds like the fanatic type stuff nicholas would write... :)
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2011, 10:58:09 AM »
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Sounds like the fanatic type stuff nicholas would write... :)


Which is at least more interesting than the cruft you come out with :p
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2011, 11:26:15 AM »
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Which is at least more interesting than the cruft you come out with :p

How is talking about King Kong having the biggest balls in the animal kingdom not interesting?   :confused:

PS congrats on reaching 16000+ posts...
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2011, 12:32:04 PM »
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What's all that stuff printed on the motherboard?  :confused:

Sounds like the fanatic type stuff nicholas would write... :)



It's the Desiderata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2011, 03:49:40 PM »
That is an incredible find!  Definitely worthy of a restoration project.

Out of curiosity, do all the Amiga's in OZ have the Commodore chicken lips on the front?  If not, definitely save the front panel if possible.  I've NEVER seen one like that!

Enjoy your new treasure.
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2011, 04:02:56 PM »
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That is an incredible find!  Definitely worthy of a restoration project.

Out of curiosity, do all the Amiga's in OZ have the Commodore chicken lips on the front?  If not, definitely save the front panel if possible.  I've NEVER seen one like that!

Enjoy your new treasure.

The pal A1000's had that.

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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2011, 08:04:43 PM »
You lucky b*stard! Congrats on THE Holy Grail of A1000s...
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2011, 08:06:12 PM »
Awesome machine, enjoy!
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2011, 01:28:20 AM »
For free no less!!!!!!!!

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you lucky b*stard! Congrats on the holy grail of a1000s...
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Re: Picked up a 1000 today...
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2011, 01:34:33 AM »
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You lucky b*stard! Congrats on THE Holy Grail of A1000s...

I wouldn't call it the "Holy Grail" of A1000 gear, but it is a nice piece of Amiga history and a nice fitting step up toward making a stock A1000 more like an A2000 while still fitting inside the original case.  The A1000 case was one of the reasons I liked the Amiga in the first place.  When I bought my first Amiga I had to choose between buying a brand new A500 at a dealer, or buying a used A1000 that came with a 1080 monitor, 512kb RAM, extra floppy drive (A1010).  I opted for the A1000 because I liked the case design better than the A500, which cost me even more money later when I started to upgrade it, as the upgrades for the A500 were cheaper and easier to find than upgrades for the A1000 were, even in 1988.
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