[rescue] Amigas arrived

[Gary Goddard]

Get the battery off the 4000 asap, doesn't look to bad at the moment but 
they do have a tendency to eat the board taking out the RTC first then 
on to the fast ram slots. If you don't want to strip the motherboard out 
a pair of side cutters can be used to snip the tabs on the battery.

Welcome back to the world of swearing at everything commodore and their 
mothers. Usually followed by "I only moved a F***ing zorro card". Then 
often begging and pleading with it to work again. :D

Gary

Bill Bradford wrote:
> The systems and keyboards arrived today, one day ahead of schedule.
> Unfortunately, a couple of cables I need (and the mice) are in the OTHER
> box, which won't get here till tomorrow.
>
> Amiga 4000:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/sets/72157600226133061/
>
> Has a Retina BLT Z3 "retargetable graphics" card, an Emplant Macintosh-
> emulation card (which I don't need/want/wont be using), and a Warp Engine
> '040 accelerator w/SCSI!
>
> Amiga 2000:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/sets/72157600226142951/
>
> Has a GVP '030 accelerator card with a RAM-8 expansion board (which takes
> stock standard 30-pin SIMMs instead of proprietary GVP sticks); otherwise
> it's pretty standard except for the extra floppy drive.  I'll probably take
> the GVP card out and put it in the other 2K.  I think it has 1.3 ROMs.
>
> I'm looking forward to getting the A4K fired up properly.
>
> Bill