Got a AMP (Avid Media Processor )

[Maconthemove]

Got my hands on a AMP. It is a based on the Mac PM 8100/100 motherboard, with a custom enclosure. It has a nubus extension board to give 6 nubus slots.

The AMP came with:

Rasterops Paintboard Prisim GT nubus card

Digidesign Pro Tools Audio Card

Avid Trueview Nubus card(ABVB)

Avid Python nubus card (Advanced Jpeg)

Box 1

Avid iS9 ext 9gb hd qty 2

Atto Silicone Express 4D nubus scsi card

Granite Digital Scsiview cable testers. Set of thress

Avid Shuttlle

Box 2

Scsi and video cables

Box 3

Scsi Zip Drive

Belkin Mini Vak

ADB Dongles Qty 2

20Gb DLT drive

Zip disks

DLT tapes

Sigma Series 2100

Lacie ext cdrom

Box 4

Avid modded Apple keyboards Qty 2

A/V connectors

Peavey interface Amplifier

Atto Silicone Express IV nubus scsi cards qty 3

Box 5

Truevision PCI card w/ 2 daughter cards

Avid PCI Janus card

Twin Turbo 128 pci video card

Atto Expresspci scsi card

Radio Shack Baseboard 1X3 Amplifier

Quantium 18 gb scsi hd

Pair of Roland MA-12 speakers

Avid ADB interface

Box 6

Avid 888 Audio i/o

Pro tools Video slave driver

VSD Video slave driver

Digidesign audio interface

Trueview video card nubus

The software is on zip disks.

The pci cards came in a PM 9600. I gave the case to a friend. The only mods to the case were a fan above the cards and a avid sticker on the case.

8-o

 

[LCGuy]

Very nice!!!!!

 

[MrMacPlus]

epic haul

/wants

 

[Unknown_K]

Wow nice haul, what software came with it and what version do the dongles cover? Avid has a utility called dongle dumper that tells you what each dongle is for.

 

[Maconthemove]

I think it is media composer 6.5 and 7 something. The versions are written on the dongles. Just going to keep the nubus stuff. Thought I could put it into

the Quadra 950 but not sure. The AMP case is large.

 

[Unknown_K]

You should be able to stuff the Nubus ones into a 950 with a PPC 100 upgrade card (thats where I stuck my ABVB AVID into). You need the PPC, SCSI, ABVB, DSP, Audio card so thats all 5 slots. Avid 6.5 is PPC only. I should have some PDF docs if you need help.

PM me if you are ditching the PCI cards.

 

[Redjack]

How the devil do folks here get epic hauls like that? I'd love to just get boxes that I can rummage in at my leisure =) That would be awesome!

Congrats on a great haul like that!!! You'll have months and months of fun, until your next haul!

 

[Unknown_K]

You basically have to be involved in recycling, thats where quite a bit comes from. One persons treasure is somebody elses old useless junk.

 

[Maconthemove]

At the begining Craigslist was the best and now that recycling fever has hit, the recycling centre is the best.

 

[tmtomh]

Pics please!

M

 

[Bunsen]

Mac PM 8100/100 motherboard, with / a nubus extension board to give 6 nubus slots.

8-o

 

[ppuskari]

Hello! I should have been here a LONG time ago, since I have been building my collection of Apples since 85 or so....

I also have an AMP but I was able to get it completely up and functioning when I finally acquired a real board set (firmwared to the system key file) as well as the system key for that board set and a real Avid firmwared hd. This is for Media Composer 2.5. Works great with the nubus cards that his guy has.

I also have a vast array of pretty much all the vintage Nubus Digidesign Protools and that era audio hardware and software and the auths to use them from lot's of places, mostly Ebay purchases though over the years.

What interests me now, is that I am wondering if the guy above OR ANYONE has that software on the ZIPS. I would LOVE to find any version of old Avid Media Composer or Film Composer.. Especially the 6.5.3 or even 7.1 PCI. I have a dongle for a PCI system like above BUT alas the copy of 6.5.3 nubus a fellow net user made for me about 5 years was made iso9660 and he whacked the resource fork of the first installer file. So now I have lot's of hardware but no way to get a nubus or pci version of dongle dumper since I can't even get help from Avid at all on this old gear even with a legit dongle.

Any chance you have that software still around and not pitched? I'm MORE THAN WILLING to share my expertise on the Nubus rig you have that matches mine as well as anything else... I also have 2 dongles and the hardware for the REALLY REALLY old Media Suite pro 2.x and 3.x for NUBUS and 68k mac. Those are in my Q950's however.

So any luck?

ppuskari

 

[CelGen]

BuMP.

Well I stumbled across this post by sheer accident but it appears that everything listed as well as the systems (9600's, 950's, and the AMP) I became the owner of several months back (or at least I can say I might of as I have everything mentioned on that list).

The only exception is the actual AMP box which after removing the NuBus extender board from I recycled because it was missing its top cover and front bezels....and then today I found the bezels mized in with a box of floppy disks. Well now I know that was a stupid idea.

As for the whereabouts of the software (again, if this is the stuff I think it is), it's currently mixed among some 2000+ floppy disks. A lot of sorting still needs to be performed.

 

[Bunsen]

That's quite a software collection.