Tue 31 Jul 2007
Wow, what a great day yesterday was. I was bidding on an A500 auction this Sunday consisting of a hacked Amiga 500 and yesterday I picked up the lot. We are talking turbo board, lots of switches, multiple kickstarts and external harddrive. Not your typical Amiga 500. Anyway I won it and I had a blast going through the hardware today.
I thought I would show off the harddrive I got with it, it is an old GVP harddrive called the A500-HD8+. It is a SCSI harddrive with four memory slots for 30 pin memory and is fitted with 4 MB memory and a 120 MB SCSI harddrive, yes this must have cost a fortune back in the day.
The A500-HD8+ is shaped just like the A500 and looks really great connected to the A500, much better than Commodores own harddrive for the Amiga 500.
What a nice piece of vintage Amiga hardware!
October 12th, 2007 at 11:41 am
I have the exact same model, too. It was equipped with a 40 MB HDD split into 5(!) partitions, the smallest 1 MB. It also had 4 MB FastRAM which I later upgraded to 6.. or something.
Mine isn’t as minty-looking as yours, but I believe it still works.
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Cool, must have cost a fortune ‘back in the day’
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:42 pm
I’ve had one of these since the mid 90’s As I used octamed alot it was the best few hundred quid I ever spent. Upgraded it was ideal for my storing my samples and modules.
Sadly my power supply got some water damage and never have been able to source one since.
If anyone knows of one please email me.
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:43 pm
You could probably wire up any kind of AT-PSU with ground, 5 volt and 12 volt to it if you can track down the pinouts. You can also mod it to use power from the Amiga 500 IIRC
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
I’m not very technical when it comes to ‘modding’ amigas or anything. Is there no way I can get a replacement power supply?
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Yes, I guess it is possible to find one on eBay if you have some patience until one appears.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I did read up on soldering (bridging) two certain pins on the pcb CN5 to CN6. but ive not soldered anything in my life and dont really want to run the the risk of damaging the whole thing.
These gvp’s seem to be hard to source these days. if you hear of one going, could you kindly email me the link.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Yes, I can keep that in mind. Maybe someone visits this blog and find your request, they can email me to get in touch with you