CDTV to option out

[RobertB]

     At the July 24-25 CommVEx, I bought a very good-condition Amiga CDTV from the vendor, Tim Waite Sales.  With the purchase, Tim threw in a few CDTV discs, a ROM switcher, and the black mouse.  Now all I have to find are the matching black keyboard (very much looking like an A4000 keyboard, except black) and the black disk drive, more CDTV discs, and perhaps even an aftermarket, external, black hard drive.  I am less inclined to get OS 2.0 into the machine, because even with a ROM switcher having OS 1.3 and OS 2.0, I'd have to upgrade some other CD drive control chips in order for the drive to work with 2.0.

              Truly,
              Robert Bernardo
              Fresno Commodore User Group
              http://videocam.net.au/fcug
              The Other Group of Amigoids
              http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
              Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
              http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

With the purchase, Tim threw in a few CDTV discs, a ROM switcher, and the black mouse.

Oops, I misrembered.  No black mouse was in the batch.

Now all I have to find are the matching black keyboard...

At today's SCCAN meeting, a member offered to sell me his CDTV keyboard for $50 to $55.  Ouch!  I will look around a bit more, but if his is the only one available, I guess I must get it.
     Also my CDTV was not reading its discs reliably.  I was told to clean the laser pick-up (gently).

              Truly,
              Robert Bernardo
              Fresno Commodore User Group
              http://videocam.net.au/fcug
              The Other Group of Amigoids
              http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
              Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
              http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

     O.K., I found out that AmigaKit.com sells the black CDTV mouse.  I'll place an order in with them, and they can bring the mouse over when they show up at the Amiwest Show in October.

             Truly,
             Robert Bernardo
             Fresno Commodore User Group
             http://videocam.net.au/fcug
             The Other Group of Amigoids
             http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
             Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
             http://www.sccaners.org

[RobertB]

Now all I have to find are the matching black keyboard...

That has been bought from the seller earlier mentioned in this thread (and at his price).

...and the black disk drive...

I didn't even remember that I picked up an Amiga 1311 black disk drive from a former user about a year ago.  It's a good thing I dug it out.

...the black mouse...more CDTV discs...

I got the black mouse and several CDTV discs when Peter Hanson, the Amiga king of England, gave me his collection back in the summer of 2011.

I am less inclined to get OS 2.0 into the machine, because even with a ROM switcher having OS 1.3 and OS 2.0, I'd have to upgrade some other CD drive control chips in order for the drive to work with 2.0.

If the Zeus68k works and fits, I'm more like likely to put this in the CDTV.  See

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?s=12d24b0c18d6a248558b4401d701dd42&t=65047

             Truly,
             Robert Bernardo
             Fresno Commodore User Group
             http://videocam.net.au/fcug
             The Other Group of Amigoids
             http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
             Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
             http://www.sccaners.org

P.S. I saw the Amiga CDTV trackball controller on eBay the other day.  At $199, I'm probably not going to buy it.