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Warty · 14 September 2021, 05:05

Had a chance to get to the shop on Saturday and work on it for a few hours. All the floppies that were in the box with it tested bad. Including 2 that looked like they were HD Amiga floppies. I haven't used an HD floppy in an amiga in 30 years though, so maybe there's some kind of driver I need to load before using them.

I eventually got 2 drives that work (had to test about 8 to get the 2 good ones).

Testkit showed good serial, parallel, joy/mouse ports, and video.

And we found an A2065, so that's good. Haven't had a chance to test it, but need to figure out AmiTCP or something first anyway.

Found a manual for the tape drive, but not the tape drive itself (so far, and I don't think we'll find it).

Slow steps...

14 September 2021, 05:05	#5
Warty Registered User Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Minneapolis, USA Posts: 301	Had a chance to get to the shop on Saturday and work on it for a few hours. All the floppies that were in the box with it tested bad. Including 2 that looked like they were HD Amiga floppies. I haven't used an HD floppy in an amiga in 30 years though, so maybe there's some kind of driver I need to load before using them. I eventually got 2 drives that work (had to test about 8 to get the 2 good ones). Testkit showed good serial, parallel, joy/mouse ports, and video. And we found an A2065, so that's good. Haven't had a chance to test it, but need to figure out AmiTCP or something first anyway. Found a manual for the tape drive, but not the tape drive itself (so far, and I don't think we'll find it). Slow steps...