This week's finds

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Sat Aug 18 21:40:07 2001

Jeff Hellige skrev:

>>One extremely hacked-up Amiga 500. With all the solder, broken pins, added
>>sockets and switches, it's one hideous "Rock lobster".

>Iggy,

> Any ideas on what they were trying to do?

Well, an amateurish acceleration project seems to have once been in progress.
The CPU has been replaced with a 16 MHz one. The memory seems to have been
patched for maximum chip memory, which is the sound thing to do, since this is
one of the earliest revisions, with a C= key instead of the LAmiga key.
The keyboard cable's been lengthened with a piece of ribbon cable and there's
a new transformer in some kind of small 5?" housing.
There are two switches on the outside, I think one is connected to a Kickstart
switch whereas the other one goes nowhere. Perhaps was it once part of the
accelerator project?
There is a socket piggy-backed on one of the RAM chips. Lots of pins on
various chips have been broken off and then resoldered.
What an ambitious owner.

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