New A1700

[jurgen36]

Thats a different approach to mods. As promised to the fellows, it took about one night to fit the A1200 into an A500 case. I did solder thin wires directly to the chips, the wires then go to a plug and socket to connect to the A500 keyboard, the reset and the LED's are working normally. I used the plug and socket approach as I did not want to ruin the precious A600 keyboard. It uses an 18 Gbyte hard drive and the drive is properly mounted so that it does not float around. This is my first mod to any Amigas, I did not even had a nibler and used normal paper scissors to cut the drive mounting brackets. Pretty rough, but can not be seen with the case closed. The back I cut out with an old knife heated red hot over our gas stove, it cut through the plastic like a hot knife through butter. As I said it was my first effort. It actually works very well and needs some extra memory. Actually the rear cutout is now properly filed etc. But as I made the photos I had no files or sandpaper. Ha Ha Ha
Best greetings to all.

[rkauer]

No IDE led?

Hint: use a extra-bright LED glued under the vents. This way you'll see the HD activity.

BTW: very well done!

[TheCorfiot]

Thats Cool, Nice Job
No professional tools yet still acheived more than Amiga Inc ever did

Well Done

[Photon]

?? Explain why please

[Zetr0]

@jurgen36

Thats pretty cool, although you have yet to put a finish on the internals are great, a good job soldering the Keyboard interface

I love the hard drive Brackets thats some good thinking indeed!

all thats left to do is add a SFF laptop optical drive

(and buy a rotary tool and some sand paper some needle files too , this will let your obvious skills shine brighter )

trust me i get away with blue murder just because i have the right tool

[jurgen36]

Originally Posted by rkauer

No IDE led?

Hint: use a extra-bright LED glued under the vents. This way you'll see the HD activity.

BTW: very well done!

Actually you can see the drive LED through the vents, but I use two diodes from the floppy led, one goes to the hard drive, the other to the floppy drive that way they are isolated, if the hd is on, the led is much brighter. The reset and the diodes are underneath the main board, so they are not visible.

[Fingerlickin_B]

Cool, cool, triple cool!!!!

PZ.

[viddi]

Great job!

Would you mind to post more pics?

[Arnie]

[quote=jurgen36;415841]The back I cut out with an old knife heated red hot over our gas stove, it cut through the plastic like a hot knife through butter.quote]

Or a hot knife through plastic .

I bet your house smelt fragrant after that little exercise.

[skote]

Now that looks like a good use for the dead A500 I picked up and stripped the chips from. Hmmmmm... Is the A1700 the first Amiga "laptop" all in one? Next step: put a rechargeable battery in it!

[rkauer]

Originally Posted by skote

Now that looks like a good use for the dead A500 I picked up and stripped the chips from. Hmmmmm... Is the A1700 the first Amiga "laptop" all in one? Next step: put a rechargeable battery in it!

If you manage to toss a pico-PSU inside with a 12V laptop battery, why not?

But the final result will weight a ton!

[Charlie]

Loverly

[jurgen36]

I am very sorry, I wanted to upload 3 more photos of the so far final version of the A1700, but it refused the upload, saying I have no more space.
Anyway I noticed the monster got quite warm and decided to fit a dual fan module sitting over the main Ic's. At the same time I removed the hard drive and fitted an 8 Gbyte CF card. I did also burn a couple of 27c400 eproms with KS3.1. I always was upset about the KS 3.0, especially as the chips were fitted in another socket which in turn plugged into the board sockets, each chip also had two wires connected externally. Well all that is gone the newly burned chips plugged directly into the main board, no external wires or sockets. The funny thing is that the original chips were Commodore roms not eproms.
It looks quite nice but I can not upload the pictures. The next mod will be to fit a DVD burner.
I still have not heard from the Russian people about the 8 Mbyte of memory extension I ordered. No reply at all, I do not know were to send the money or anything else.
Best regards