https://youtu.be/NCURryu2mGY?si=5aVjm_SVvl_RxCnv

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#BoingAndBeyond​ #AmigaHistory​ #RetroTech​
#ClassicComputing​ #CGIHistory​ #HollywoodTech​
#AmigaAmbassadors​ #RetroComputing​ #digitalhistory

Does it look like this is a machine from 1993?

#Amiga #Amiga4000 #VideoToaster #retrocomputing #hobby

Bit of #retrocomputing here.

I finally decided to do something I'd been meaning to do for years - nudged by watching @janbeta starting the restoration of an #Amiga 3000T .

What I needed to do was remove the real-time clock battery from the mainboard in my Amiga 4000. I haven't used it in - literally - decades, and those soldered-to-the-board NiCd batteries (they're three small cells attached end-to-end) all leak, eventually. They can do a lot of damage to the board.

I think that I had been putting it off for years because I figured it had been so long there wouldn't be anything to salvage - that, plus it was tucked in an inconvenient place in storage.

Today I pulled the box out and looked at it. It's basically in mint shape, even stored in the original factory packaging, which is not bad for a machine from 1993. I hadn't even seen the machine since 1998 - the box was sealed when I moved that year, and I never unpacked it. I moved a couple more times since then.

It wasn't even dusty inside. It looks like it came out of the factory last week. It's the #68040 model and has some upgrades - RAM maxed out, a Video Toaster 4000 and a second hard drive added.

The battery did leak, but there's no significant damage to the board. The lacquer where it oozed has lost its shine, but that's about it. Removed it and cleaned the board.

I gather this might actually be worth something today? Last time I checked (20 years ago...) it wasn't.

#A4000 #Amiga4000 #VideoToaster

toast and coffee video magazine volume 1 number 1 is up~

i fucked up the item identifier in a tragic copy paste incident :( lesson learned to triple check that.

https://archive.org/details/toast_and_coffee_v1_n2_202512

#amiga #videotoaster #vhs #retrocomputing

i upgraded my vhs digitization setup and am finally archiving the pile of Amiga tapes i received at a VCF MW a few years ago... here's Toast and Coffee vol. 1 no. 2, a video magazine from 1992 about video toaster and related products

https://archive.org/details/toast_and_coffee_v1_n2

#amiga #videotoaster #vhs #vcf #retrocomputing

Like Dick Van Dyke, use the AMIGA computer!

#DickVanDyke #amiga #commodore #CBM #retrogaming #retrocomputer #80s #90s #geek #AMIGARetweets #CGI #VideoToaster #Newtek #3Dmodeling #LightWave3D

Commodore Amiga 4000 computer with HighFlyer expansion chassis (Video Toaster).

#commodore #CBM #AMIGA #A4000 #Videotoaster #Newtek #retrogaming #videogames #retrocomputer #80s #90s #Geek

Pics by thedaemon.

In the year 2024, it's a bit wild to think that, once upon a time, if you needed to add a text or graphic overlay to a TV broadcast, you needed a dedicated machine for the task, not just a plain old computer with the appropriate expansion card and software.

This all started to change in the 1990s with the introduction of the #VideoToaster, which could do this using an #Amiga (or, later on, #Windows) computer.

I wonder what people are using these days?

#retrocomputing