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Amiga 600 - $2

Danamania

Official 68k Muse
I've been after a 2.5" ATA Amiga for years - found this little Amiga 600 in grotty condition and grabbed it seconds after seeing it. I figured $10.. maybe $20... The dear old chook took one look, sneered at its filth and said "ick... two dollars"

Done!

Now to see if the ten year old HD from my A1200, with *all* my graphics work from 1983 through to 2001 still works... and if it can be booted on the A600.

Fingers crossed!

Dana

 

Danamania

Official 68k Muse
It works, I have my old HD uncovered too, aaaaand....

the 44pin IDE cable I need for it is somewhere in my Collection of Stuff.

Stuff which contains a good 200lbs of cables alone. This might be a long long night...

 

johnklos

Well-known member
The Amiga 600 is an excellent collector's computer - small, can connect directly to a TV, has IDE, and can take a PCMCIA card. Excellent work!

What happened to your A1200?

 

madmax_2069

Well-known member
wow, nice score Dana.

I have been looking out for a Amiga as well, but haven't turned up with much at all (either a Amiga 500/600 or a 1200).

Either they sell for a premium or for cheap because its broken.

 

Nathan

Well-known member
Score!!! Congratulations on your "new" piece of vintage technology. :) You might want to consider transferring those old files to new media and/or new formats, you never know when you might want that in the future.

 

Danamania

Official 68k Muse
Ahhhhhh!

My HD cable arrived from Amigakit in cardiff, plugged in and the HD just did a vrrrp vrrrp vrrrrp.... pause... vrrp vrrp vrrp... pause as it tried to start-up. I took it out, held it in my hand and spun it along its rotation plane and smacked it into my other hand a few times, then reconnected it, and it booted fine!

OK, fine apart from a whole lot of stuff that doesn't have the RAM to run or doesn't work on a 68000 (the drive came from a 68030 A1200), it looks like all my filesystems are available, even the ones formatted in whatever non-Amiga-FFS I used at the time. Hurrah!

Now... off it goes again, and I look for sane ways to transfer everything from it. Null modem cable, a beige mac, and terminal apps would be the easiest I suspect.

What a wait - 10 years! :)

Dana

 

johnklos

Well-known member
Congrats!

There are a few ways you can transfer stuff. You can get a CompactFlash card and a CF to PCMCIA adapter, pop the card into the Amiga 600's PCMCIA slot, format the card as and MS-DOS FAT-32 disk, then copy everything that way. Considering the price of 8 gig CF cards isn't too much, that might be easiest.

 
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