Yesterday, I did a foolish thing and drove four hours, each way, to pick up an Amiga 2000. The previous owner was a lovely fellow, threw in a whole bunch of stuff with it, some Amiga related, some not.
The final haul:
-Amiga 2000
This has the 3.9 motherboard in it, the rare dealer demo board Dave Haynie spoke about; it's mostly a 4.0, but the CPU upgrade slot is kind of useless, so I understand. This has already been upgraded to ECS (I even got the original OCS chips in a couple of little IC carriers!) but it still has Kickstart/Workbench 1.3 on it.
-1084 monitor
This had some demons at first, the tube would stop displaying a picture after a few minutes of warming up. With some help from a gentleman on the Facebook group, I managed to open it up, discharge it, and resolder the flyback transformer, and it's been all good since then. First time I ever discharged a CRT, and it scared the bejeezus out of me.
-8MB SupraRAM card
-GVP SCSI card, with external hard drive
-SuperGen 2000 genlock, minus external control box, lost by previous owner it seems. I'll be looking for one of those eventually.
So, it boots to the external hard drive, and that's phenomenal. Now I need to figure out how to get things on to it, and what I should/need to upgrade. Already planning to put a Gotek in the front of it, and have one ordered from AmigaKit.
Should I ask for help here, or elsewhere?