FBXL Social

Randomly walking down the street and saw a yard sale selling an Amiga 500. I've always wanted to play with one of these, so I picked it up basically without thinking, especially since the price was virtually nothing.

Looks like an Amiga 500, the bottom bay has a card I couldn't immediately identify since it's just a big plate of steel but my understanding is that those tend to be memory expansions.

Included seems to be a Amiga A520 which is a modulator that can produce a composite signal or an RF signal on channel 3 or 4.

There's a second disk drive with it, made by phoenix. Seems to take 3 1/2 inch floppies (I never had an amiga so this is all new to me)

There's a mouse that plugs into the joystick port.

One really neat thing that comes with it is a midi interface that plugs into the serial port.

One major thing I'm missing is obviously a power adapter.

So I guess I'm in it now, I've got a new power supply and gortek USB to floppy adapter coming in next week, and a RGB2HDMI board coming in someday from across the pond. I've had a pi zero forever, so that's not a problem.

I'll probably need to dig up my torx bits and open the guy up shortly to see if there's any jackpot surprises inside in terms of bulging caps or the like, but I'm pulling for the little guy.

Incidentally, I managed to get another buy from the same yard sale, an old 80s boom box with short wave radio support, up and running almost immediately.