Amiga 600 - $2 | MacTrove

#1 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 - 13:01 68kMLA

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

#2 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 - 13:50 68kMLA

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...

#3 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 - 13:56 68kMLA

Good work and good luck! Nothing like a spot of digital archeology.

#4 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 - 19:26 68kMLA

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?

#5 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 - 00:24 68kMLA

A coffee spill that nuked the serial port, then the rest of the machine not long after.

#6 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 - 23:50 68kMLA

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.

#7 Sun, 1 Aug 2010 - 03:51 68kMLA

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.

#8 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 - 04:07 68kMLA

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

#9 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 - 19:39 68kMLA

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.