ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2024 Entry 7th January 2024: Post 1: Amiga 500 Plus 3.1 - Finally found her. Amiga 500 Plus 3.1 - Finally found her. Right under my bloody nose again. I have a saying here when I can't find something and that is it's obviously in clear sight. And I am rarely wrong. She was at the front of the stack leaning against a broken case which I had assumed incorrectly was the broken machine. The computer was used in a blog to install Workbench 3.1 on an XT drive in an A590 and I just wanted to validate which machine I used so that when I find the A590 I can make a note on the case. This computer was first featured on the website on 26th October 2006. She arrived as an A500 but with an A500 Plus motherboard and with the Solid State Leisure A5000 accelerator. For years I didn't use or clean the computer for fear of mucking the accelerator up. I did eventually try to fire up the card but with only marginal success. The board was put away having had one last go and actually got the thing working during a lightning storm. The computer was stored with the view there was a faulty CPU which turned out to be a bent pin. At that time I finally got round to cleaning the board. She was never featured on my original acid test run to check the battery damage on my A500 Plus machines. She did however appear as part of my health check in 2021. I was convinced that the 3.1 ROM machine used in the A590 install was one I have on the bench and so for some time this computer has been rogue. The sticker advises of the various times I have had the machine out and done work with her. The last was in Feb 2021 when I must have been checking the A590 again. Strangely, whilst the case is an original A500, the keyboard is that of an A500 Plus. This machine came as is with the Plus so the computer must have used the A500 Plus keyboard. I do know of folk buying A500 Plus motherboards as a cheap option to install in the cases of their A500s. The battery was removed when it arrived here and the only hint of corrosion is to the first small resistor, otherwise there is no corrosion anywhere. The trap door connector pins are shiny like new. There is no evidence of track damage anywhere on the board. I was listening to Evanescence whilst taking the pics and made a record of the SONY player to remind me. I became quite conscious that my camera is now very tired and I do need to sharpen up my act. Getting a new camera will give me the opportunity to take fresh pics of everything .... Again !! The machine powered up and loaded the Workbench 3.1 albeit without a monitor. It was a big ask today to lump a monitor onto the bench as I have another project on the go in the adjacent spot. Man do I enjoy looking over my computers. I am always thrilled to see a clean and tidy interior to an A500 Plus. Over the years since I got this computer the Plus has certainly become one of my most favoured Amigas. I'm so lucky to have a number that work. I put a fresh sticker on the back. Happy days. PS: And er no .. She is like never going to be Retrobrited. She looks wonderful just the way she is. Mellow. Amiga 500 Plus 3.1 - Finally found her.

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