ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2024
Entry 10th July 2024: Post 1: The mystery of the cardboard Amiga.
The mystery of the cardboard Amiga.
Funny how the memory plays tricks on you. For years I took for
granted that the box containing my cardboard Amiga project was
indeed the very same that I featured all those many years ago.
In truth it could not be the same motherboard cus that one is in
my EZ Tower.
Let me explain. Back in the early 2000s I acquired a tower. This
I have discussed many times. I gave up on the tower when the PPC
refused to play ball. The case sat empty for a while until one
day I had the brilliant idea of laying the thing out in a card
box and then slowly adding all the bits that came with it and see
if I could get it working. I was very successful and eventually
hooked it back into the tower and then eventually back into the
tower proper.
The board came with a whole bag of gadgets and gizmos courtesy of
Eyetech which included scandoublers, keyboard adaptors, floppy
converters and serial ports etc. All these things are actually
in the tower and I also have a big box of goodies for the tower.
Anyway fast forward to the other day when I was looking for the
images of the Amiga 1500 when to my surprise I discovered some
lost images of the contents of the cardboard Amiga. This left me
scratching my head cus not only is the motherboard alien to me
but the kit inside is not the items from the tower project. I
was able to track the keyboard adaptor from the Big Book together
with the Port Jnr fast serial port. But the floppy converter is
a real mystery.
There is a distinctive mark on the motherboard which I should be
able to track down to which Amiga now has it. The Apollo 060 isn't
the one I most commonly use and I don't know if it is working.
I can see the box in question. It currently sits under a whole
shelf full of ZIP disks and jewel cased PD disks. Will take me a
good while to retrieve. I had quite forgotten in truth that the
box still existed, but with the evidence from the photographs
from October 2017 I guess the contents are still in there. I am
pretty sure the motherboard is not cus I kinda recall retrieving
the thing. What I did with it is another mystery. That's how it
goes here.
Just a quick word about Eyetech. The company was very well known
in the nineties and sold custom towers and all the gadgets and
accessories. They specialised really in bringing the Amiga up to
date with PCs of the day. They were very successful and at one
stage even had a finger in the Amiga rights drama if I recall.
I do wish I had kept more of their literature, it would certainly
help me identify stuff. I wasn't a big fan of the towers, but a
lot of what they sold seems to have vanished, which makes it very
collectable.
The stuff is actually very useful, I have a mouse converter that
lets me use a PC mouse, keyboard adaptors so an A1200 can use an
external keyboard, clockport actual clocks, Port Jnrs adding the
fast serial, buffered interfaces for all your Atapi devices, the
scandoubler flicker fixer for PC monitor hookup and the towers
themselves. Finding a lost box of goodies is a pleasant surprise.
I do have the spare tower and I have threatened on a number of
occasions to getting it up and running. Dunno.
The mystery of the cardboard Amiga.
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