jones@eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) (11/20/89)
"Michael E. Drues" <drues@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> asks: > > For that matter, anyone know about the A1000 being left on 24hr/day??? > My A1000 was powered up in March of this year when I installed a larger hard drive on the system and has been running since then. I've been running a BBS on my A1000 since April, 1986. The Amiga was bought in September, 1985 and has performed since that time without any failures. (I have taken the keyboard off, opened it and cleaned it twice, but that shouldn't count --- necessary since I smoke) The system is now running with an UPS and has only been powered down to connect and disconnect equipment within the last two years. For the first year of operation the BBS was running without a hard drive, so the floppies got a pretty good workout during that period and are still worrking fine, though the internal drive sees very little use now (Only used for booting the system.) The external drive is used for backups so it does see a fair amout of use. Both have never had any problems. This machine is the first one sold in our area --- no halfbrite, good PALs, and a *REAL* 1080 monitor with the little feet to tilt it forward! Your mileage will probably vary. 8-) --- Cal // Cal Jones - Internet: <Jones@UV4.Eglin.AF.Mil> or \X/ BBS: 904-243-6219 1200-9600HST 340Meg, all Amiga --------------------------------------------------------------------- NW Florida's first Amiga BBS running on NW Florida's FIRST AMIGA!
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (11/20/89)
In <4442@nigel.udel.EDU>, jones@eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) writes: >This machine is the first one sold in our area --- no halfbrite, good >PALs, and a *REAL* 1080 monitor with the little feet to tilt it forward! A little trivia for the oral history buffs. The 1080 was the same monitor as the 1902, which was designed for the C128. The 128 did not support analog RGB, though the 1902 was produced both with and without analog RGB capability. On the ones that were produced without the capability, there were a dozen or so components (diodes, caps, etc.) omitted from the circuit board, and the three position switch could not be placed in the analog RGB position because of a slight difference in the opening in the plastic case. I personally think that the analog RGB circuitry was removed to prevent folks from saving a few hundred bucks by buying the 1902 rather than the 1080. The little feet to tilt it forward? Well, if you take a look at the 128 (similar to an A500, but a little shorter), you will see that if the front of the 1902 (or 1080), is placed on the rear 'platform' of the 128, that the feet make it stand pretty much flat. -larry -- My name is OS/2, Mandius, Kludge of Kludges. Look upon my works, ye CS majors, and gag. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) (11/22/89)
In article <819@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Larry Phillips writes: >In <4442@nigel.udel.EDU>, jones@eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) writes: > >>This machine is the first one sold in our area --- no halfbrite, good >>PALs, and a *REAL* 1080 monitor with the little feet to tilt it forward! > >A little trivia for the oral history buffs. The 1080 was the same monitor as >the 1902, which was designed for the C128. [...] Trivia on the other half of Calvin's system: it wasn't one of the VERY first A1000's, because the very earliest A1000's were shipped with halfbrite. I've never figured out why this was the case, but it was. Apparently the Rev 5 Denise didn't snd a few thousand Rev 6 chips were shipped in the beginning. Then Rev 5 shipped for a long time. I don't know if the newer A1000's with EHB have Rev 6 Denises or a later version. (For reference, my A1000 is serial #XM1050534 and was probably the first sold in Santa Cruz county, as there was only one store at the time and all evidence pointed to mine being the first sale). I can't remember if this was August or October '85 -- whenever the A1000 first shipped, + up to 2 weeks. Bela Lubkin * * // filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us CI$: 73047,1112 (slow) @ * * // belal@sco.com ..ucbvax!ucscc!{gorn!filbo,sco!belal} R Pentomino * \X/ Filbo @ Pyrzqxgl +408-476-4633 and XBBS +408-476-4945