Commodore Amiga 3000 with Nicotine

This computer has kept for many years my BBS “Hidden Power / Nightfall HQ” up until closing, previously the BBS ran on the Amiga 1000 … then A500 and A2000.

I also publish two historical photos of my “BBS Room” where you can see this Amiga 3000 running.

I give a brief description of what was done and what i did today for this computer.

  • Year 2001 i have removed the battery and one of the two SCSI Harddisks that was dead.
  • Year 2010 i have cleaned the external/internal case and published the photos on the blog.
  • Year 2018 i have cleaned the keyboard.
  • Year 2019 i have carefully cleaned the motherboard that was covered with a sticky layer of Nicotine (in the BBS Room peoples likes to smoke a lot)
    • Cleaned the Floppy Drive covered inside and outside by a sticky layer of Nicotine, to repair it i had to completely disassemble it.
    • Replaced the Kickstart ROM 2.04 with version 3.1
    • Removed the last died SCSI Harddisk.
    • Installed “new” 250Mb Quantum Maverick SCSI Harddisk.
    • Installed WB 3.1 and MagicWB + a couple of Demos and of course Pinball Dreams Harddisk version.
    • Replaced the WD33C93A SCSI controller chip with AM33C93A-16PC.
    • Cleaned the Keyboard pcb and replacements of the rubber pad, more than 20 keys are died.
    • Removed the Zorro BSC / Alfa Data MultiFace Card 3 (multi Serial) card and installed the Village Tronic Ariadne II (Ethernet Card)

Everything works perfectly as you can see from the photos.

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