Fri 21 Sep 2007
No, do not pay attention to the Buddha card (it is broken anyway), the Nintendo GameBoy Micro or the 72-pin sticks (or the Elbox tower if you are really hardcore) this is about the circuit board in the middle of the image.
I sometimes wonder how much hardcore Amiga hardware is hidden in ex-Amiga user’s apartments or houses and cellars. Reading a thread about Amiga on a Swedish internet discussion board one user posted his former Amiga setup. By the tone of the post you could tell he was probably never going to use an Amiga again so I emailed him and asked if he was willing to sell some parts, which he gladly would do if the price was right.
The positive thing with making business outside of popular auction sites is that price is generally much lower than what the product would sell for on Ebay, which is good thing since Amiga hardware sometimes sells for ridiculously high prices.
Anyways, back to the card: it is a Phase 5 BlizzardPPC with a 040 68k CPU and a 200 MHz PowerPC CPU (hidden behind the cool black heatsink with the warning text). The entry level card was the BlizzardPPC with 040 and 166 MHz PPC so this is one step up I think, sadly this is the version without SCSI. These cards can be upgraded to full 060 CPU but that is costly and might not be worth it (if you have lots of other 060 accelerators as I have).