ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2018 Entry 1st July 2018: Post 24: Amiga 1200 Amiga 1200 - Amiga Technologies: Tower Refugee At the last count I believe I had 26 Amiga 1200s. Never quite sure how that came to be. Mostly it was due to me desiring certain aspects of auctions on Ebay and finishing up with computers also. Added to this I acquired quite a few by being gifted them by generous donators of kit to the collection. Seems every Amigan had an A1200 at some point in their time with the platform. This Amiga Technologies A1200 is a bit of a mix and match. The top cover may well have been the original, but the base and top have differing lives. I guess this is why the top is in better condition than the base. Let me explain ... The base has been in an Eyetech Tower. How do I know this ? Well it has all the tell-tail signs of a baseboard that has been fitted to a tower. It has a slot in the rear for a ribbon. It has an additional rear port for the monitor connector from a flicker fixer. There is a slot adjacent the floppy drive that indicates a locating slot to hold the board in the EZ-Tower. And there is no shielding. The hard drive was a 3.5" with the added cables and probably once sat in the tower. I say all this cus I have a similar 1200 base in my tower. I was never happy with the way so many A1200s were destroyed by users hacking them into towers. They rarely survived beyond the life of the tower and never reverted back to the 1200 it first was. I was lucky with this A1200 to almost get a complete A1200 back in working order and as originally intended. Amiga 1200 - Tower Refugee Quick check to see that she is working first The top casing is in perfect condition Note the different shade to the base A slot cut in the case for a ribbon Empty monitor port that was added And the slot that holds the base with motherboard into an A1200 tower. Probably an EZ-Tower by Eyetech. The top was probably then put in store and never used. 3.1 ROMS This is the drive that I found inside What a mess More like a grilled cheese sandwich OS3.9 just aint gonna fly without some serious memory and acceleration Dates from September 2001.. which sounds about right. It is possible to fit the 3.5 in the 1200 but why bother.. Really !!. I once had a most dreadful Christmas in 1995 trying to do this, only to discover my power supply with my accelerator was never like ever going to power the thing. And only 1 GB. Anyway I put the hard drive back into store and the A1200 safely back on its shelf. All working.... Not a fan of OS 3.9. Just too clever for its own good.

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