She is DOOOOONE :D I really do love the A3000, A4k has AGA and my A2k 040 will always be my daily use machine but there’s something about the A3k that oozes quality, 68030@25mhz and 68882, solid chassis and the wonderful Display Enhancer so I wanted to do it justice and spend some time on the restoration. The outer case was a mess, yellow and dirty; the keyboard alone took two nights to get clean! Dismantled and cleaned then populated all the ZIP RAM banks giving 16MB on the motherboard, installed DataFlyer card with 8MB RAM and an Oktagon 2008 with another 8MB ZIP RAM and 2GB PC SCSI drive for the bridgeboard, 32MB Fast RAM in total, chip RAM upgraded to 2MB. Battery removed, tiny leak confined to the front battery pin, neutralised, cleaned and CR2032 soldered in. Six long months searching I tracked down and have installed the holy grail of PC bridgeboards, a mint Commodore A8386 with 2MB RAM now running Windows 95. Dismantled the PSU and cleaned, two 4GB SCSI drives running Workbench 3.1 Classic installed and my full 7gb WHDload package transferred, keeping this one SCSI seeing as every other machine I have is now running IDE and 16GB CF’s 1084s is now swapped for 17” multi sync CRT (I have a CRT addiction!) and I’ve also installed a GVP Impact Vision 24. Finally, Kickstart ROM upgraded to 3.1 (It has all its original 2.05 and 3.1 disks, manuals, ROMS etc.. even the Kickstart disk and the Display Enhancer adjustment screwdriver!) So that’s it all done, running very quiet and cool... was worth all the effort and it’s now squeezed in my Commodore cave with its sixteen brothers and sisters! Just my PET and A1000 still to be restored now! My Commodore cave is here on my homepage urbecks/commodore
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 19:33:12 +0000
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