I've just made the biggest score I've ever had..not because
of quantity but because of what the items are:
First is direct from Dave Haynie, a name any Amiga fan will
recognize. It's a prototype 68040 CPU board for the Amiga 3000 made
in 1990/91. It actually came out of his Amiga 3000 and is the very
board described in "The Big Book of Amiga Hardware" website. This is
a very different board than the later A3640.
Now the biggest score...a Be Inc. "Hobbit" prototype! This
machine was part of the Be liquidation back in January and was
purchased as part of a large lot of computers by a reseller. He had
no interest in it, though he did recognize it as being an early
version of their BeBox, and posted it for sale. I got it for $50!!
It is serial# 9308000044, though supposedly only 30 of these were
actually built. It has three AT&T 9308S DPS's and two AT&T 9309A
CPU's. The only expansion card installed in it's quad-row header
expansion slots is the video card, dated July 1993 and based on the
Trident TGUI9430C chip. It boots up to the following:
"Boot ROM of March 15 1994"
then opens a terminal window, displaying:
"Welcome to the new improved console"
$
That's as far as it goes. Commands such as LS and CD work as
expected and the directory structure looks very similar to various
Unix flavors.
The system has identical stickers on both the mainboard and
back of the case (which is a generic PC clone case, complete with
Turbo button) which shows:
"Be Incorporated"
"REMOVAL VOIDS WARRANTY"
"Serial Number 9308000044"
"Rev. A"
It uses standard PS/2 mice, AT keyboards, 30pin SIMM RAM,
SCSI hard disk and a TEAC FD-23HF floppy drive. It has dual serial,
parallel, what appears to be dual game, mouse, keyboard and VGA video
ports on the rear of the machine.
Jeff
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Received on Mon May 13 2002 - 10:35:37 BST