ScuzzBlog: Diaries October 2019 Entry 4th October 2019: Post 02: Amiga 1200 - The salvage yard. Amiga 1200 - The salvage yard. In the early 2000s I couldn't believe my luck with Ebay cus many many people were offloading their kit for next to nothing. My collecting started in the early years out of fear of my main Amiga falling over so I gathered monitors, computers and peripherals to ensure that I always had a working Amiga 1200. When Ebay arrived I would scan the auctions over the lunch breaks at work and put bids in for junk 1200s that were being sold for a few quid. I was amazed at how many I won. The aim was to basically salvage the various parts and make a good one out of several bad ones. The process was very successful. I then moved onto all the Amiga models and did the same. That is why I have so many Amigas. I seriously purchased Amiga 1200s for as little as £10. Over the years I have kinda whittled the bad ones down to just three or four Amiga 1200s and they stand against my Dreamcast shelf by the side of me here. They have a variety of issues from keyboard failure to floppy problems and display issues. So when I had the problem with the A600HD I decided to fit the hard drive that I recently acquired to an A1200 with a dodgy keyboard and a display problem. She works fine generally. There is also an issue with the floppy drive insomuch I can't extract the disk without a pair of pliers. This suggests the board has been mucked around with and possibly the motherboard removed and not put back properly. I need to strip the computer down but who has the time. So I stuck the drive in and tried to format the drive and install WB 3.0. First problem was that the drive killed the computer. I was getting no power to the computer. I simply flipped over the ribbon and all was OK. No idea what the problem was. Same ribbon just flipped it over. Next I got a problem with the CTRL key as in it's not working. I can get round that one but it kinda made me nervous. This computer was bust when it landed here and I have no idea just what the issues were. The bigger problem is the failure on the colour to the grey on the screen which appears slightly green. It is on its way to blue. I did a blog a few days ago about a similar A1200. Not much I can do short of replacing the chip and that is beyond me. So I formatted the drive to total volume capacity under the 4GB level and all went according to plan and I was able to Quick Format which I wasn't able to do on the 600. I named the partitions after the three main characters in my latest book with the main protagonist Shohoh the renamed computer name also. I have elevated the computer to a level shelf now where she can be tested for drive operation. I have tagged the computer for a full strip out to get over the floppy problem. But not today. It's what I do... every single day. Amiga 1200 - The salvage yard.

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