Kickstart and Workbench 1.2 for Amiga 1000

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Wed Apr 29 10:12:23 1998

"James L. Rice" <jrice_at_texoma.net> wrote:
>I've acquired a Amiga 1000 with monitor, mouse, scsi sidecar that try's
>to boot up, but after booting kickstart, it asks for the Workbench 1.2
>disk. My disk seems to be defective because the drive cycles and the
>picture of the workbench disk comes back up. Does anyone out there have
>a copy?

The symptoms you describe could also mean that your disk drive is
out of alignment. Early Amiga OSes were floppy-bound and did a lot
of gronking, which wore out a lot of drives.

- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
Received on Wed Apr 29 1998 - 10:12:23 BST

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