So many replies are so similar to mine but I didn't end up in I.T.
I always wish I had though....
I started with a Z80 machine called a Vz200 from DSE and tore it
apart to learn how it worked. I had the manuals and circuit diagrams
and basically taught myself how one worked.
Then came the A500 and I did the same and even modded an IBM floppy
so it could be used on an Amiga. Remember the 880 k disk drives?
I used to fly flight sims a lot on the 500 and also had a Genlock so
I could digitise images and feed in a composite video signal.
My first video shots of the moon were through the A500 Digiview
Anyway...skip 20 odd years and it was all still sitting in the shed
unused but I couldn't bring myself to throw it all out.
I searched on Ebay to see if people still wanted these things and WOW
a few A500s were for sale and people craved the system disks.
I had the original OS disks and I had also bought the later OS...was
it called 2.0? Anyway, I had it , and the manuals.
I put it all on Ebay and got a few hundred for it all
At least it went to someone who valued it.
I even still have a working 1084 monitor that I use as a video monitor.
Still a good working tube after sometghing like 20 years
ps: forgot one thing...I also made a Weathersat decoder for the Amiga
which was an EA kit designed by Tom Moffatt....gentleman and terrific bloke.
I made his Wesat decoder and Wefax decoder.
The sat kit would pull in a live satellite pic from space right before your
eyes using an IF modified scanner (my Yaesu Frog9600).
I could have a pic start from sometimes the coastline of Antarctica and it would
drop out over Darwin.
Steve
