Amiga 3000D Episode 2: Teardown, Cleaning, PP&S Mercury 040 Accelerator Testing

[@boydpukalo8980]

The 3000 is a nice looking case, but a knuckle buster working in it.

[@ClarkHale]

Yeah no doubt. Although I compare it to my Macintosh's from around the same time, where all the plastic has become brittle, and the A3000 has held up much better.

[@josephphillips9243]

Clark, this might sounds like a stupid but can the A3000 run without the ZIP ram noting how hard they are to get?

[@ClarkHale]

It can! Only the Chip RAM is required on-board. You can then have Fast RAM on an accelerator. I've also seen boards that can adapt RAM packaged as DIPs or SIMMs to fit into the ZIP sockets on the board.

[@josephphillips9243]

@@ClarkHale Thank you mate. Slowly, slowly. slowly saving to one day do a ReAmiga. About the closest I and many others will get to an A3000 so thanks for showing it.