Another A1200 with Blizzard '060

[RobertB]

     A few weeks ago I was digging around in the house and discovered an Amiga 1200 box.  Hmm, what was in this one?  I looked inside and found an Amiga 1200.  Oh, this was the one given away by Bobbie Sellers of the defunct CWest/AWest club of San Francisco.  I opened up its underside bay.  It had a Blizzard 68060 board running at 50 MHz and 32 megs of Fast RAM!  Whoa, how could it be that I had never investigated this one?
     I already have an A1200 desktop with Blizzard '060 and an A1200 with Blizzard '060 in an AmigaKit tower case.  Now another?!?!

          Truly,
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          http://videocam.net.au/fcug
          July 27-28 Commodore Vegas Expo v9 -
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[RobertB]

Whoa, how could it be that I had never investigated this one?

O.K., I investigated it, but I didn't get too far.  The hard drive tries to spin up, but then it spins down.  I only get a black screen.  Where is that spare 40GB drive I got from AmigaKit?  

         Truly,
         Robert Bernardo
         Fresno Commodore User Group
         http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[RobertB]

The hard drive tries to spin up, but then it spins down.  I only get a black screen.

O.K., at the October TOGA meeting I'll bring the dead A1200 to the tech there for him to work his repair magic on the machine.

         Truly,
         Robert Bernardo
         Fresno Commodore User Group
         http://videocam.net.au/fcug
          The Other Group of Amigoids
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          Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
          http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

     After that October meeting, we looked at the A1200.  Yes, it would need hard drive repair, but Duncan felt confident he could get it going again.  I've decided that Duncan should have the A1200.  What do I need another one for? 

          Happy New Year!
          Robert Bernardo
          Fresno Commodore User Group
          http://videocam.net.au/fcug