Friends,
An update on Le Musée des Ordinateurs Anciens:
- The Toshiba that caught fire after I soldered on the battery jumper backwards—in my defense, the battery terminals were mislabeled—is still on hold. Once burned, twice shy, I suppose.
- The Toshiba Satellite I started work on has a bad and expensive to fix display, so that’s on hold for a bit as well.
- But look here! The old Amiga 1200 is working! Sorta!
I cleaned up the Amiga after it spent some unfortunate time in the garage and it started right up. Its whopping 170 megabyte hard drive made a lot of clicking and clacking noises, but didn’t boot the machine. Time for a new hard drive.
Luckily, there’s a seller in the UK that sells brand new CompactFlash cards with the Amiga Workbench installed, and the hardware needed to hook it all up. I ordered it up and it arrived a month later. Can’t wait to see how the old gal runs after all this time.
BTW, got a spare a 72-pin 128 MB SIMM laying around? I’ll trade you a box of double density floppy disks.
Stay safe. Wear a mask, please.
Your pal,
– bob