Back up the Amiga Hill
Amiga 1000 ... Check.
Switched on and the small motor to the PSU fires up.
Next the click of the drive and the ROM requester.
After a short while the Workbench requester.
The welcoming blue screen of 1.2.
And we are in.
Once the Kickstart is loaded you are
free to swap disks and boot other applications.
Let me check that Silkworm disk from the other day.
Playing helicopter.
Or JEEP.. Sadly the scrolling activity is
not picked up by the camera.
And so the A1000 is placed back on the mountain.
Next is a rather special Amiga 500.
Workbench 3.1 running off the 3.1 ROM from an
A590 XT external sidecar. I'm betting Commodore
never planned on that ever happening.
Amazing little computer and makes some
fantastic beeping noises when first booted.
Even runs MUI applications and the like.
Another bloody hot and horrible day.
Showing off that XT drive.. Classic.
And so the A500 goes back onto the mountain.
Finally the A600 and this little baby has
a three boot start up... Always takes the
three boots to get into the OS.
There is good reason for this but I have
gotten so use to the boot process I really
am never minded to change things.
So I switch on and I get the requester.
Then I CTRL-LA-RA twice and eventually
the hard drive kicks in.
Man does this get used a lot. Kinda used
like a laptop as I can unplug and carry
around the house with very little problem.
Been used on countless times to check
files on my other computers... And
carries with it full copies of Workbench
versions and drive contents.
This is a full back up of the Checkmate drive.
Has everything on this machine.
All accessible through DOpus.
And the reason for that boot issue is
that it has two bootable volumes. Bonkers
I know. But this is not my hard drive.
It works so I leave it alone. The day it
falls over is the day I do something...
The old 'It aint broke' adage.
CanDo .. Classic.
And so the A600 climbs back on to the
top of the pile and I can happily report
that all computers are working and accounted
for.. And so what a colourful day I have been
welcomed with... Happy days.
Alan Pownall Colourful Day
