Amiga 1200


AMIGA 1200

Here is the Amiga section. It has been brought to my attention that the Amiga doesn't really classify as a vintage computer, but i shall leave this page as it is because it is still part of my collection. Thank you Allan for pointing this out to me, i never really thought about it before? I suppose it is a bit too advanced to be a vintage computer, and young. Why didn't they build pc's like this?? My Amiga is much less temperamental then my PC....

My Amiga was another freebee, it used to be the only vintage computer i owned that uses a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk, bot any more. I know have a number of Amstrad PC's that use 3 1/2inch plus some others. Check out the specs for each machine to find out which ones.

I have recently bought an Amiga 500, but i haven't got round to making a seperate page for it yet so i will just mention it here for the time being. -3/12/00 there is now a seperate page for the Amiga 500, please see the computer index.

 

Here is a picture of the external drive i purchased from e-bay,

 

EXTERNAL DRIVE

 

Here is a little poem submited by my Great Grandad, hope you like it!

No Amiga of Mine

He loves his Amiga. I thought that he loved me.
It squats there with its glassy glare, a strange adversary.

He worships his Amiga. It keeps him entertained.
For unlike me who's not machine it stays turned on all day.

He's proud of his Amiga. It does things I cannot.
It has a printer and a mouse, two things I haven't got.

It's always the Amiga as far as preference goes.
His disk drive not his sex drive is what keeps him on his toes.

His love for his Amiga shall one day finally crack.
It's either that or I'll go out and get an Apple Mac.

LINKS

Here is a great Amiga dedicated web site. Full of info, and stuff to download. Go there if you want anything Amiga and Internet related. Very easy to navigate around and looks just perfect. And he still says it is his first site! Click below to go there now....

 

Click HERE for an EXCELLENT Amiga Site

 

SPECIFICATIONS

 

Year of manufacture 

Unknown?

Memory 2 Mbytes as standard. Expandable by up to 4 Mbytes (32bit), and additionally by 4Mbytes (16bit) via PCMCIA slot.
CPU Motorola MC68EC020
Speed 14MHz
Operating System AMIGA DOS 3.1 Multitasking Operating system includes CrossDOS (MS-DOS file transfer utility)
Storage (disk drives) 1 3 1/2inch floppy drive (880K capacity), 1 AT IDE 44-pin hard disk interface
Display TV or RGB monitor.
Peripherals 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 1 Video (RGB Analog/Digital), 1 Colour composite video, 2 Stereo audio outputs, 1 RF port for connection to a television
Extra 1 PCMCIA 2.0 (16-bit, 68-pin industry standard), 150-pin edge connector (for memory cards etc.)