Score! Two prototypes!!

From: David Barnes <davebarnes_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Mon May 13 20:03:42 2002

wow!!!! that IS the score of the year!



Jeff Hellige wrote:

> 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 - 20:03:42 BST

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