ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2018
Entry 1st May 2018: Post: 1
The door to the Amiga A4000T
I was going through a pile of old magazines and books and found
this very sad item... It is the door to the Amiga A4000T. This
was the version released by Escom after the demise of Commodore.
Cost me over £700 when I obtained it off Amibench and involved
a long long journey 'up north' to collect.
Took me an eternity to get the machine working again but eventually
she ran just fine. That has been quite a few years back now and
I have never been tempted to throw off the dust covers. She sits
in a shroud of linen sad and neglected.
Never mind.. I guess if enough asked me to feature the machine
again I would take some pictures. Its long overdue. But like the
A3000Ts they remain dormant as I have no good reason to tax their
circuits. It's not that I dislike the machines, it's just that
I never think about them. I tend to refer to them as monoliths.
Symbols of a form of machine that in truth I never associate
with the Amiga.
So sorry.. just the door and a glimpse of the tower.
OK it's a new month.. Let's get on with it
Images from the vault
Commodore Amiga 4000T
A spare case for the A4000T
Checked and last time used was Feb 2007
The A4000T Specification
Central Processing Unit: MC68060 49.9 MHz (rev 1)
1 WarpUP Processor(s): PPC 604e 200 MHz (rev 2.4), 66 MHz busclock
Floating Point Unit: 68060fpu 49.9 MHz
Memory Management Unit: 68060mmu running
Custom graphics chip: AGA Lisa 4203 (rev 0)
Custom animation chip: AGA PAL Alice 8374 2M (rev 3-4)
Other custom chip(s): Paula 8364 (rev 0), Ramsey (rev 15), Gary (rev 0)
Graphics system: Picasso96
Graphics board(s): Picasso IV [Paloma Concierto]
Soundcard(s): Concierto
Hardware Clock: clock + battmem found
Max. Chipmem available: 2048 K
Max. Fastmem available: 130048 K
ROM chip version: 45.20 (Kickstart 3.9)
Workbench version: 45.3 (Workbench 3.9)
SetPatch version: 44.38
Expansion board(s):
5001/6: individual Computers/VMC HyperCOM Z4 (@$00E90000 64k)
4626/23: individual Computers X-Surf (@$00EA0000 64k)
2167/24: Village Tronic Picasso IV (@$40000000 32M)
8512/100: Phase 5 Digital Products CyberStorm PPC/MK III SCSI
(@$00F01060 128k)
Cyberstorm PPC serial #: DCC0270
She's Alive ! A4000T Images
The camera can`t capture the tiny fans going
round, but believe me they are... whoo hoo !!!
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