What a flashback, every time I opened my A-4000 I was afraid of breaking the plastic clips of the front panel, they are so brittle. I can't count how often I had to open it for CPU cards, RAM, Retina, Cybervision 64 and stuff like SyQuest changeable hard drive (which sucked) and other stuff. Great to see the mighty 060 in it's full glory!
I just posted a time lapse of me putting my A4000 back together the other day. I took it apart about a year ago to do a motherboard swap and install a 060 board but waited longer than expected for the board and kickstart roms to arrive. When they finally got here I didn't feel like messing with it so it sat on my desk in pieces for far too long and I kept putting off the reassembly. It feels good to finally have the beast back together again.
A4000/040, A4000/030, A4000 CR, and the A4000T were the versions which were released - I've two of the 040 versions both part way through being refurbished, I've done the motherboard dance more than a couple of times now :D
Jens apparently stopped making the rapid roads USB module due to a design flay in his design where the module could get shorted out via usb connect/disconnect and to stop the warranty bloodbath he stopped making the module due to so called "chip shortage".......
that's actually a backplane. The daughter card are expansion cards...just saying. Clean little junk box though. Someone's been in there and detailed it.
In a machine of this vintage.. how fast is the CF card setup vs a real hard drive ? At that time some drives were 10,000 RPM scsi drives which were available.
Amiga native IDE (which CF is) is all PIO (no DMA transfers) so it's very slow even for its time. On the flipside that means it's equally as slow reading from a CF card as from a real hard drive, which are both significantly slower than 10,000RPM SCSI drive with DMA transfers.
What a flashback, every time I opened my A-4000 I was afraid of breaking the plastic clips of the front panel, they are so brittle. I can't count how often I had to open it for CPU cards, RAM, Retina, Cybervision 64 and stuff like SyQuest changeable hard drive (which sucked) and other stuff. Great to see the mighty 060 in it's full glory!
I HATE popping that front off. Just tears at me!
I just posted a time lapse of me putting my A4000 back together the other day. I took it apart about a year ago to do a motherboard swap and install a 060 board but waited longer than expected for the board and kickstart roms to arrive. When they finally got here I didn't feel like messing with it so it sat on my desk in pieces for far too long and I kept putting off the reassembly. It feels good to finally have the beast back together again.
awesome yeah sometimes that happens. Depends how busy I am with real job.
Thank you Q got to love the Amiga 4000.
A4000/040, A4000/030, A4000 CR, and the A4000T were the versions which were released - I've two of the 040 versions both part way through being refurbished, I've done the motherboard dance more than a couple of times now :D
yeah, I realized after I made the video I completely forgot about the tower but then again that was so not in my world back then. lol
there was also this post mortem A4000T/060 from Escom.
@@madigorfkgoogle9349 Yeah, the Quickpak 060
I always made sure I had those big antistatic motherboard bags on hand just in case.
The A4000 is a very clear example of "Amiga Germany designed this case"
hahah
Dude I remember selling and assembling video toaster long time ago, good memories.
Yeah going to be interesting trying to set one up again.
Jens apparently stopped making the rapid roads USB module due to a design flay in his design where the module could get shorted out via usb connect/disconnect and to stop the warranty bloodbath he stopped making the module due to so called "chip shortage".......
ohhhh. Bummer. Thanks for the info.
that's actually a backplane. The daughter card are expansion cards...just saying. Clean little junk box though. Someone's been in there and detailed it.
Ah ha! Thanks for clarifying that.
I had an A4000/030 and it was 25MHz, which was soooo slow, my Blizzard A1230 was so much faster, but the 4000 had a Picasso II....
Yeah the expansion slots did allow for fun options.
@@HoldandModify My point was either A1200 with slow af chipset (gfx) but fast CPU or A4000 with fast graphics and slow af cpu.
The ubiquitous Dr Chris vinyl magnet for all of us Dr Chris cult followers, LOL
In a machine of this vintage.. how fast is the CF card setup vs a real hard drive ? At that time some drives were 10,000 RPM scsi drives which were available.
Amiga native IDE (which CF is) is all PIO (no DMA transfers) so it's very slow even for its time. On the flipside that means it's equally as slow reading from a CF card as from a real hard drive, which are both significantly slower than 10,000RPM SCSI drive with DMA transfers.
@@Vanders456 I guess my question is. if you used a full IDE HD or even scsi (if available) with faster speeds. is it worth it over using a CF setup?
@@cjadams7434 CF is just as fast as an IDE hard drive. SCSI should be faster.
good choice of prodigy - no good playing in the background!
Can’t be too loud! ;)