Cables & replacing an A2000HD HDD.

[DPainter]

Among other things I bought this weekend were these cables in a box of Amiga joysticks and cables. Can anyone tell me what they're for? Sorry this is the best picture I can make:

[jmmijo]

Sure enough, the cable on the left is a C128 80-column video cable, the DB9 end plugs into the 80-column output of the C128/C128-D, the other end should connect to most Amiga/CBM monitors, such as the 1084 series, you should see a 6 pin DIN connector on the back as well :)

The cable on the right appears to be the composite video cable, also for the C128 or even the C64 and connects to the composite video and audio connectors on the same series of monitors :)

The box on the bottom, I'm not sure of :(

Actually the cable sitting on the box could be an audio digitizing cable, a custom one from what it looks like. Is the connector a DB25 one, like what would connect to the Parallel port?

BTW - what question(s) did you have on replacing a A2000 HD?

EDIT: please note that the 80-column cable is designed to connect to a monitor that supports RGB-I or simply RGB Digital rather then the Analog signal that the Amiga outputs :)

[Twistin'Ghost]

Originally posted by DPainter
Among other things I bought this weekend were these cables in a box of Amiga joysticks and cables. Can anyone tell me what they're for? Sorry this is the best picture I can make:
:rolleyes Hehehe...yer jokin', right? Excellent quality pic, really. I wish everybody on ebay (and even commercial sales sites) made pics this well. I just love those ebay ads with midcrodot-sized images or completely blurry pics.

[DPainter]

Thanks for the info, Twistin'. The cable on the bottom does appear to be a DB25 cable, so it is probably for a sound digitizer.

Among the junk was an A2000HD/4mb OS3.1 with a 2091 controller but no keyboard. He insisted on selling everything at once, and sure enough the 50mb Quantum HDD is full of read-write errors. I've since learned that you can't stick any old SCSI HDD in there due to size and power constraints, so I have a feeling this A2000HD is going to the parts pile. Any objections?

BTW, here's the lowdown on what I bought. You tell me what you would have paid and I'll see if my ego can tell you what I paid:

1084S monitor (working fine)
A2000HD (crap)
Misc: 4 joysticks, 4 mice, 1 Amiga 1200bps modem, 1 1010 external drive (working), 3 Amiga RGB cables, various printer cables, 2 books.
Original Disks: About 150 original disks without docs/boxes, many of them Jumpdisk/BestOfAmiga, but about 25 games and 30 commercial apps.
Copied disks: about 500 in fair to terrible shape, many corrupt, mostly personal crap like Phasar tax data but a few games and apps. Very few cracks; mostly parameter copies.
Originals with boxes: Dragon's Lair, test drive, Rocket Ranger and Wayne Gretzky Hockey.