Tintin, the Linux-Running Amiga 1200
Until recently, my primary computer for use at home was the Commodore Amiga 1200 that I jointly bought with my brother in about 1992. It's physically located in Dunedin, New Zealand, and tends to be known as Tintin to its DNS, WINS and AppleTalk colleagues.
Hardware
Tintin has the following hardware, as if you're interested:
- CPU: Motorola MC68060, 50 MHz clock speed, on phase5 Blizzard accelerator card
- Memory: 2 Mb ChipRAM, 20 Mb FastRAM
- Storage: 1 GB Maxtor 71084 A internal IDE hard disk, 2.1 GB Quantum Fireball ST external SCSI hard disk, iomega zip 100 external SCSI removable media drive
- SCSI: phase5 SCSI-Kit IV (fast wide SCSI-II)
- Scanner: Microtek ScanMaker E3 Plus
- Modem: D-Link DFM-560E 56k, external
- Monitor: currently the Commodore 1084S PAL/NTSC monitor that we got with our Amiga 500 some years ago, but I'll probably "upgrade" to the rather ancient NEC MultiSync II monitor, which is currently providing the display for my PC, when I can afford a nice new big monitor.
Operating System
These days it normally runs Linux (or more specifically Debian GNU/Linux), being used as a file, print and communication server by my new PC and the Mac LC II that live here, and of course as a general computing toolkit (huzzah for the UNIX!). I think the longest uptime it's had so far was about 10 days. It really only gets booted into AmigaDOS when I need to run Mac software, and it also runs NetBSD on occasion, like when I can't figure out how to get something to compile under Linux.
Still, there are features of AmigaDOS that I really miss, even on UNIX/Windows/Macintosh, and I've yet to see the mail client that can top YAM. What I really need is enough decent computers to run every OS at once... (donations are welcome).
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