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06 March 2010, 12:18
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Amiga 1200 revision
I need some help.
I would like to buy an A1200 on Ebay and i have found some of them. But i dont want to buy a AT/ESCOM Amiga, because the known problem with the floppy drive. I have found an A1200, where i would like to offer. So i have asked the Seller to tell me some specific details about the machine. He told me following: YEAR: 1992 - 1994 Revisionsnummer: 2B -(there are some threads here, where i can read, that its ESCOM-like) Kickstart: 3.0 - so its rather not an ESCOM Amiga floppy drive: Mitsumi -so it should be not an ESCOM one! The A1200 itself is labeled as "Commodore" Amiga. So any help or suggestions would be very great. |
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06 March 2010, 12:20
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What known floppy drive problem?
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06 March 2010, 12:31
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This drive has problems to read some non DOS disks. Also the motherboard of such Amiga is modified, if you have such drive inside and it seems, that you can not simple replace such drive without some soldering. |
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06 March 2010, 12:48
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From the specs above its a Commodore.
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06 March 2010, 12:50
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Well the 1992-1994 date is a dead give away. The Escom Amigas were manufactured in 1995. It also says Commodore which is another big hint that it isn't an Escom model. I think the Escom models also came with Kickstart 3.1 and not 3.0. Finally the badge is a dead give away, if it uses the newer Amiga Technologies logo (with a red diamond as the dot in the letter i) then its an Escom model. Sounds like a Commodore model to me though.
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06 March 2010, 14:03
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The A1200 from commodore comes with Mitsumi or Chinon floppy drives and always comes with kick 3.0 |
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06 March 2010, 14:29
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Thanks, so i will try to win the auction, if the price is ok.
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06 March 2010, 16:30
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Not intending to upset the apple cart here,
But I won an auction on ebay for a "Commodore A1200" that had the Commodore badge but has 3.1 roms. |
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06 March 2010, 16:49
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