Two 1500s stacked one on top of another
and haven't seen the light of day for a while
Rather bashed up A1500 box sitting centre
stage in the store room.
Scrappy set of innards. Sadly most
users tended to throw their bigger boxes away
Not an Amiga 1500 but an Amiga 2000.
Same thing really. The 1500 was a Europe idea
Quite a yellow box.
Not a common rear to the machine, though
they did tend to vary a bit
Some times four screws to hold the power
plate and other times just the two
Just the one card poking through the back
and a GVP hard drive if I'm not mistaken
SCSI or GVP-SCSI. Very useful
The hard drive was going round but
sadly not booting. Time to take a look
Unscrewing the side screws and the one
back screw you pull the front panel and
slide the case forward.
The front fascia leaves the floppies and
the power light panel behind
And half way down you can lift the case off
And the outer case is removed
Your classic A2000 naked -- whoo errr!!
Two cards fitted. RAM and GVP-HDII hard drive
The card takes its power for the drive
from the motherboard
Time was when modest RAM involved loads of chips
Quite a busy little beast this
Not just RAM but SUPRA-RAM
Just a modest amount of RAM on this card
And the Quantum HD which was pretty typical
All looks as though its set up properly
With the floppies and PSU unhitched I can
get at the battery and check the wound from
the previous removal. Many years back now
Doesn't look like its gotten any worse
Tramways and tracks pitted and slight
degrading. I have seen much worse. The
battery spillage on this board was bad
Never quite sure when a track stops working
when you see the breaks in the lines
A 2.04 ROM which will have been an upgrade
And the year 1991
Another lime green and yellow board
Paula and Denise
Quite a neat and tidy board
Think I have seen enough
That's the floppy and PSU tray hanging mid air
System check and we have the boot screen
I came armed with a 1.3 so scuse the OS
I can see now that the Quantum is a backup
drive and has no boot function. I am guessing
there was another drive but it was removed
Much later OS also and loads on the drive
All seems to be working properly
Not going to work with just the 1.3 in the drive
S Y S I N F O
Picking up on the first Volume / Partition
Picking up on the second Volume / Partition
2 MB Fast
4 MB Fast
1 MB Chip
Picking up the Zorro cards. The GVP is
flagged twice. There are just two cards
OK time to lock this down. She is working fine
