Obvious Troll is Obvious. Why feed him?
Hello Greg,
Obvious Troll is Obvious. Why feed him?
- Andy Ball
Hello Greg,
So how are your Amigas?
Good question. I have an A600 but I can't remember
the last time it was powered up. Probably time I tested it again.
- Andy Ball.
Hello Greg,
Sooo... what did you use the Amiga 600 for when you
were using it? Gaming? BBSing?
It was a replacement for my A1200, which I missed a lot.
The A600 is significantly less powerful of course, but it was just small enough to stuff into a rucksack. I brought it with me from the U.K.
Hello Greg,
Why did you get rid of the 1200?
Because I moved to the U.S. and the A1200 wouldn't fit
in my carry-on luggage. The A600 did.
Hello Greg,
Uggg... so did you have to sell the A1200? Man that
was a sweet machine.
It was a really nice machine. My friend Nigel had one
that we upgraded with a Blizzard (iirc) accelerator with 50 MHz 68030 + 68882,
RAM (I forget how much) and a SCSI host adaptor. Mine was more modest, but still a joy to use. I had 6 Mbytes RAM (2M chip onboard and a 4M SIMM) and a 32 MHz 68882. I gave it to a friend before I left the U.K. because his floppy-only A500 was not quite up to the work he was doing.
- Andy Ball.
I still have the A600 that came with me in my backpack
when I moved to the U.S. It's probably at least a decade since I last tried that. Do you happen to remember how large (capacity) a 2.5" PATA disk that can take?
I don't plan to upgrade my A600 beyond Kickstart 2.
I did like datatype support in Workbench 3 but it doesn't make sense to put money into a machine this old, even one that I like.
That said, if I found an '060 accelerator board for it I might be tempted!
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