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.

Amiga 500 harddrive

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.

GVP HD8+ SCSI controller

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!

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