ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2022 Entry 15th July 2022: Post 1: Escom - Whiter than white. Part 2. Escom - Whiter than white. Part 2. Yesterday I discussed the software released with Escom Amigas back in 1995-96, and today I feature a few of my own computers that are from that period. The first is an A1200 that I acquired from Bristol which I have on standby and check the hard drive almost every single day. Inside is a drive that became stuck due to inactivity. So I did the old freezer trick and brought her back to life. Since then I have been making efforts to keep the drive active. You can see the green light to the floppy drive. There is also a very faint blue speckle in the paintwork. This gives the paintwork a whiter than white appearance. The second A1200 is my oldest Amiga Technologies machine dating from 2001 and is called Spike. Basically that was part of a tower and I rebuilt the thing. The guy sadly had used the wrong screws and over tightened them and damaged the front face work. Spike is used as a link up with an Amiga 4000d on a Parnet and has SCSI external drives and ZIP. The keyboard appears to have slightly faded over the years. She has an Apollo 040. The third is the Amiga Magic Pack A1200 that I bought brand new in 2003. She has a Blizzard 1230IV and has never been used. The last beast is another de-towered A1200 that had previously been inside a 3.5 inch drive. There is a slot in the back for the ribbon to pass through so I hooked up a 3.5" IDE. I have the A1200 sitting right next to me up here. She is on a sliding large tray and so the drive sits at the back and can't be seen from the top that is below the desktop. She is a great machine and is truly whiter than white. Except when she gets endlessly hammered creating my ADF files that are transferred via a ZIP off a Surf Squirrel. The computer has a GVP Jaws 030. I do have one or two other Escom machines that were released in 1995-96. Incredible that so many Amigas do date from this period and yet the production only lasted just one year. Saying that the A1200 wasn't in general circulation that long before Commodore went bust, so its kinda lucky we still have so many around. Anyhoo.. going now. Part three tomorrow. Escom - Whiter than white. Part 2.

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