[committee] Fwd: [ucc] Free to good home: Amiga 1000

[Luke Williams]

Good evening all,

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Rufus Garton Smith wrote:
> I would probably use it; I have a few GBs of Amiga games that I've been 
> unable to play for years. My only concern would be space, but we seem to have 
> some of that at the back of the clubroom next to arctic.

Use it for what? My main concern is that by today's standards it, well,
sucks. I'm not sure whether 512KB of RAM is a typo or not, but computers
these days have up to 512 MEGAbytes of RAM - a big difference if you ask
me!

The CPU also leaves a lot to be desired - who ever heard of counting CPU
velocity in MHZ? For a computer to be worth it these days it should be
at least counted in GHZ, like the Pentium 4 processor or the AMD ATHLON.

OTOH, 2kg of games sounds like a lot. Does anyone have the formula for
working out MB from KG? Maybe we could just take those and run them on a
GOOD computer.

ffs,
Luke

PS: External floppy drive? WTF! In my BEAST I didn't even include an
INTERNAL floppy drive. For shame! lol

>> 
>> I could probably pick it up off Damian, as I work with him, but I'm
>> not going to bother lugging it back to UCC if it's just going to be a
>> piece of junk that sits in the clubroom taking up room, and nobody
>> ever uses it.
>> 
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Damian Bramanis <damian.bramanis at uwa.edu.au>
>> Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 3:50 PM
>> Subject: [ucc] Free to good home: Amiga 1000
>> To: ucc at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
>> 
>> 
>> Free: Amiga 1000 (yes, the original Amiga)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000
>> 
>> The last time I turned it on it worked just fine (don't know how many
>> years ago). I assume it still does, but I haven't tested it lately.
>> 
>> 1985, eat your heart out.
>> 
>> Includes:
>> - All original hardware (including monitor, mouse, keyboard)
>> - Blazing 7.09 MHz CPU
>> - Probably has 512KB of RAM (I forget)
>> - Extra genuine Amiga external floppy drive
>> - Good ol' Kickstart and Amiga Workbench included
>> - Graphics and audio capabilities years ahead of its time
>> - Heaps of games included (approx 2 kg.)
>> - 1 Joystick
>> 
>> Free to UCC, if UCC wants it. Otherwise, free to the first taker.
>> 
>> Damian
>> 
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