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A 3000D ,a 3000UX and some Commodore history
A 3000D ,a 3000UX and some Commodore history
#3000D #3000UX #Commodore #history
“Chris Edwards Restoration”
E499 – in this episode i received one hell of a proposition i could not refuse. Take the best of two A3000’s to complete one. In return i can keep some goodies and a special A3000 UX case and parts. come along for the unboxing and some really cool historic Commodore goodies.
Thank you V!
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@9:49 did you mean v1.4? Also, can you be more specific about them "blowing up all the time"? My A3k with kickstart 1.4 has suddenly decided it cannot load my kickstart 3.2.2 rom file. In fact, it won't load any kickstart file above v1.3. I even tried old superkickstart 2.x disks. Weird. I see my power LED flashing about 7 times and then it repeats. Screen is blank the whole time. If I power on with the mouse buttons held, I still get the kickstart 1.4 boot menu and I can boot into Workbench 1.3 (floppy or HD) just fine. Weird. AmigaTestKit RAM tests passed.
Cool, a A3000UX system. I may still have one of those IBM ZCSI drives I used in another system.
All those documents would be cool to save to the Internet Archives.
That’s one big accelerator
Who needs AMIX? I was running Debian on an A1200 in 1996 on a 1GB Quantum SCSI drive.
Chris do you have any info on the A4000 U213 when one updates buster 09 to buster 11?
those magazines, manuals and newspapers at the end, gave a great pang of nostalgia for C=
Those harddrives were fitted in IBM AX and RS servers in the 90’s. Got a couple at home that I “saved “ in the early 00’s. WhenI left IBM. Mine are a massive 2GB. They still work, dont make em like that anymore.
Awesome haul Dr. Chris
Thank you Chris you do great work.
i'd love to see the video toaster in action!
Chris I have seen some Youtubers claiming that sometime you can fix chips by heating them up. Sounds a little dodgy to me. Have you ever heard of that one?
I've actually managed to get AMIX running on WinUAE and you can use UAE to transfer to an Amiga hard drive with the right adaptors.Had it running with an emulated Lowell card.
That restores my faith in people, Nice gesture from the owner 💓
It's nice to see there are people out there with wonderful Amigas, and cards for them. For some reason I keep thinking the Amiga well is drying up, but every now and then an influencer comes up with a nice haul. It must be getting rather cozy in your Amiga vault these days Chris. 😀 Take care.
Does anyone know for sure who did the work for the Amiga UNIX port? Its unlikely it was done in house at Commodore and I suspect WATCOM probably had a hand in it since porting UNIX to various platforms as a subcontractor was kind of their bread and butter back then but it'd be nice to have some confirmation.
Hi Dr Chris.. when you go to do the tape stuff, please don't put that super rare AMIX tape in it. Not first up. They have a habit of turning the rubber pinch rollers into liquid spooge and they do smear it all over the tape. So..yeah refurb and test it on something not important first <3 Love your work. Resisted the urge to click thumbs up because it was such a round number of 256 ..but someone raised by savages did it now so I did it at 261. Best wishes!
Great stuff Chris. Can't wait to see that UX alive. Can I let go of my testicles now? 🤪
Hmm, did a RedHat Linux install on my Amiga 3000D back in the day for an article in a magazine. That worked just fine with a Cybergraphics 64/3D (I think) I will dig around for the magazine, pretty sure I have it somewhere.
That would be fun to do again 🙂
another awesome video. love the big box amigas a UX is on my list too. looking forward to seeing AMUNIX running on that beauty.
You cab scan all that in to the internet archive? – lol – A LOT of work.
What a nice setup! The A3000 UX was awesome. Never seen it used in person, unfortunately.
This is awesome! A big thank for this video.
I hope a bunch of those Commodore documents get into the Internet Archive.
Whoha
OMG… they are so beautiful… maybe one day I will get one of that lovers
Pretty sure you already know that, you can dd the files on a scsi drive of your choice, instructions on amigaunix de. Its in german but no problem for you with relatives from Düsseldorf :).
I was recently trying to remember putting Toasters in 3000's but couldn't recall. As soon as i heard "hacked case" it all came flooding back. I never liked doing it but I was just the one putting them togethers.
For some reason I always thought the 3000UX came with a built in tape drive.
Was there any actual difference hardware-wise with the UX or was it just different base software with the unit?
Simply excellent video can't wait to see how those two Amigas complete their journey
Will we get some AmigaPCI deepdive ?
Nice, chunky HD looks like an IBM Corsair….first drive to use MR heads, developed in the UK. Fast drive for its time but loud and hot! I was working at IBM in the 90s…good times.
That was a very tasty burger. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed seeing the UX more though!!! Awesome!!
My goodness I feel quite faint 😅
Did you steal that knife from Worf? Klingons can get very angry about that…
I have a 120MB Quantum LPS in my GVP HD8+. It still runs flawlessly 32 years after I got it. It wasn't cheap!
El Paso is as far from TX as possible.
You need a plain old SCSI QIC150 tape drive for those UX tapes. I used to run one for backups on my A4000 wiyh an Oktagon SCSI HBA (Host Bridge Adapter).
Remember that you can use the Zulu to take image copies off those old SCSI drives as stand-alone. Just add power and a SCSI cable.
Wow!
the Amiga 3000UX is my dream computer, annoying that they are always so expensive
Ebay has a few qic150 tape drives you could get that should read the tape
My A3K missing the same black square button off the PSU. Loup City? holy crap, wish I had known that. I'd have driven 170 miles for PSU parts.
Love the shirt 🙂
I am surprised the UX Amigas didn’t come with a tape drive as a standard
What a lovely gesture. Wholesome stuff.