The Resurrection Process:
Long before I became interested in the Commodores, I was almost
always in my grandfathers basement, either building on my large HO scale
railroad layout or lighting things on fire. One afternoon I was melting Lead
with an Alcohol burner and pouring the molten lead on the concrete
floor
which made nice little coins you could stamp later on.
Anyway I'm getting off-topic, so I was sitting down there and I knocked over
the burner which spilt flaming alcohol in a three foot radius on the floor.
No
worries I put it out, but in my frantic searching for the baking soda I found
a
crappy looking computer... the Amiga 1000.
It took a long time for me to fully utilize it, after finding it in the
damp
basement I figured it wouldn't work. I plugged it in, still down in the basement,
turned
it on and it worked! Although I was too young and Naive to realize it needed
startup disks. So I stared at the kickstart logo wondering what the hell I
was supposed to do.
Four months went by before I found the disks (All the while it sat longer in
the
damp basement), I put them in and was greeted with the workbench screen.
Big whoop, I took it to the main floor and forgot about it after it became
buried
in the storage room. By the time I regained interest (7 months later) I turned
it on and the video was messed up.
So once again I lost interest, got really bored one day, took it upstairs
and
put it on the floor. Turned it on and it started working again. Since then
it's
changed places every two days until now.
As it is Today:
Here is the Amiga 1000 the way it can be seen today, the same desk as the Commodore
was at temporarily.
Another Shot
Peripherals:
1341 Mouse
Amiga 1000 Keyboard
Microbotics 2mb Ram Expansion
SupraDrive floppy drive
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