22 Aug 96 , Craig Hutchison did fondle the keyboard and wrote to All:
 Yowser & greets Craig!,

 CH> I headed on down to his place, not more than 5 minutes from home, and 
 CH> handed over $150 for my new toy.

 CH> When I got it home, I immediately attacked the cable with a
 CH> screwdriver, 
 CH> and opened the 25pin end. Whaddayaknow, the Green signal wire had
 CH> parted 
 CH> from the pin. A quick dab from the old soldering iron, and Voila, it's 
 CH> fixed.

 CH> P.S. The kid also threw in a 9 pin dot matrix printer, 2 joysticks, an 
 CH> external disk drive, a shootload of disks and an A500. 8^)

Last week I went over to a friends and ended up buying 4x1mb 30pin simms
off him for $55, he threw in an A500 as part of the deal - said it didn't
work, but couldn't remember why it didn't. He was going to give me the A500
even if I didn't buy the ram :)

Thing is, no power supply, so I couldn't check it out without going through
a hassle. Got a power supply off a friend for a few secs and voila! The
A500 booted up to a WB2 "insert disk" screen. The disk drive is
stuffed, so that's as far as I got (now I know why it "didn't
work").

Internal examination reveals its a Rev 6A motherboard with a 1meg Agnus
sitting in there.

Question: Did they ever put 1meg ram on the motherboard in an A500?

Question: Is a Rev 6A board any good for any decent hacking?

Anyway, I got a good source of spare parts now :)

Cheers,       __
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