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Amiga computer related discussion => Recommended Amiga Dealers => Topic started by: Amiduffer on September 12, 2006, 09:51:19 PM

Title: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on September 12, 2006, 09:51:19 PM
Since I see C= and Amiga stuff here ocasionally, I thought I would have a thread so I can warn people if anything shows up there. The website is

http://www.weirdstuff.com/

and I'll list off a few things I spotted there in my recent trip.

In the AS-IS section:

early version (v1 or v2) of DirOpus manual $1.00
ADPro manual $1.00
C= A500/600/1200 PSU brick $4.00
C= VIC-1541 floppy drive no $tag but will probably be a few bucks.

Out by the cash register:

C64 game cartridge (defender)
C= thingy that allows you to hook your Ami up to a TV
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on September 13, 2006, 08:59:28 PM
Since Weird Stuff Warehouse is a sort of museum of old computer technology, albeit very messy, I was amused to see items like a HUGE IBM 5" external floppy drive. If you thought the C= external 5" floppy drives were big, these dwarfed those.  :-D
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on September 18, 2006, 02:51:09 AM
Seen at WeirdStuff 17 Sep, 06:

A complete C= 128 with monitor and 1541 floppy drive. They had it running. It was amusing to see the Microsoft copyright on the screen.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: JimS on September 18, 2006, 04:40:45 AM
Hmmm.... looks like they've fixed the web site. Last time i followed a link there from Make magazine the site made no sense at all.

thanks for the reminder.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: amigagr on September 18, 2006, 10:31:38 AM
68030 (http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/item/13109) weird stuff these days indeed!
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on September 19, 2006, 09:39:30 AM
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JimS wrote:
Hmmm.... looks like they've fixed the web site. Last time i followed a link there from Make magazine the site made no sense at all.

thanks for the reminder.


It's was about as confusing as the store/museum itself. You really gotta see the damn place. Jammed with stuff you wouldn't believe. Anyone desperately in need a 12" floppy drive? They have 'em!!  :lol: There's a ton of the deitrus of the tech blowout really cheap. Servers, networks, Sun stations, older laptop accessories, every damn kind of cable and connector you can think of. Equipment from hospitals and science labs. You can spend hours in there, especially if you're a geek.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: K7HTH on October 22, 2006, 07:03:42 AM
Geek gear is goooood.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on December 19, 2006, 11:37:41 PM
Seen at the WSW Dec 19 06.

Complete A500 in original box with mouse, brick power supply, and manuals. Comes with a keyboard anti-spill cover. Looked in very good shape, little dust, and no dirt.

As an aside, I saw at Urban Ore, and old Osborne portable computer.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: InTheSand on December 20, 2006, 12:44:02 AM
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Amiduffer wrote:
As an aside, I saw at Urban Ore, and old Osborne portable computer.


Heh! Was that the portable if you're a weightlifter (http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html) variety?!

 - Ali
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on December 23, 2006, 11:21:15 PM
Yep! The big old Osborne1 "portable". It could actually be  a decent boat anchor considering its weight.  :-D
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse and Urban Ore
Post by: Amiduffer on March 13, 2007, 10:20:09 PM
Seen at Urban Ore in Berkeley Ca, Mar 13, '07

Two C= 1701 monitors, listed for $25 each. No chance to plug them in, but they looked in decent physical shape.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on March 28, 2007, 02:11:13 AM
Got to poke around at WSW today, and there was a "new" C= item.

It was an external keyboard, but one I've never seen before.

The color was white, the connector was an angled DIN type from what I saw, there were no F1 - F10 keys like on your average amiga keyboard, and it only had the words Commodore in the upper right.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: B00tDisk on March 28, 2007, 04:54:51 AM
Quote

Amiduffer wrote:
Got to poke around at WSW today, and there was a "new" C= item.

It was an external keyboard, but one I've never seen before.

The color was white, the connector was an angled DIN type from what I saw, there were no F1 - F10 keys like on your average amiga keyboard, and it only had the words Commodore in the upper right.


Probably something for the C= Colt series, perhaps?  Maybe a C128D KB?
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on March 28, 2007, 05:54:19 AM
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B00tDisk wrote:

Probably something for the C= Colt series, perhaps?  Maybe a C128D KB?


Sharp guy! Looks like it was the keyboard from the PC10-III. Anyone itching for a C= clone keyboard, WSW has one!  :lol:

(http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/miscCPUs/pc10-iii.gif)
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on May 20, 2007, 02:44:38 AM
Rare find today!!  :-o  Spotted at the WSW 19 May 2007:

A decent looking Commodore PET model 8032.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: spihunter on May 20, 2007, 03:10:46 AM
C128D Keyboards are a pretty damn rare item!. It took me two years to find one :crazy:
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on November 03, 2007, 05:16:59 AM
Seen at the weird place 2 November 2007

(http://www.geocities.com/laverdiereaf/C64setup.jpg)

A complete C=64 set, with two disk drives, and two joysticks


(http://www.geocities.com/laverdiereaf/Cjoystick.jpg)

and this is a closeup of one of the joysticks that I took out of the box to show. Looks in terrific shape.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on December 05, 2007, 07:01:17 AM
Amiga gear seen at the WHouse 4 December 07

One Supra Ram board for the A2000, populated with 4 megs of ram and looking in decent shape. according to the BBOAH, it was the later rev. model. Its available for $25 as-is.

BBOAH site (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=1078)

and the ramboard they have at the store:

(http://www.geocities.com/laverdiereaf/SupraRam.jpg)
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: retrorandy on December 21, 2007, 08:33:54 AM
Wow, GREAT find! I love Weird Stuff and Urban Ore in Berkeley rocks the house. You just never know what you'll find in that place. About 2 years ago I found an old Amiga 2000 with a Video Toaster and I believe a GVP 040 card. The Amiga was dead, but the accelerator card worked when I plopped it into another Amiga 2000 I had at home.

Never quite figured out the Video Toaster. I believe it had some sort of other audio looking boards with it. Been thinking about possibly selling the boards to someone who could actually use them.

I just had to register when I saw that someone else actually checks out these local wonderful places for retroCOMPUTING in the Bay Area. Let me know if you ever want to meet up & dig around for stuff together.
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: weirdami on December 21, 2007, 10:11:44 AM
@retrorandy

You guys can arm wrestle to see who gets the keep what you find together.  :idea:
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: SamOS39 on December 21, 2007, 12:10:47 PM
wow check out the 68k CPUs :-o
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on January 03, 2008, 08:03:39 PM
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retrorandy wrote:
Wow, GREAT find! I love Weird Stuff and Urban Ore in Berkeley rocks the house. You just never know what you'll find in that place. About 2 years ago I found an old Amiga 2000 with a Video Toaster and I believe a GVP 040 card. The Amiga was dead, but the accelerator card worked when I plopped it into another Amiga 2000 I had at home.
 


Ah! You're the one who snagged that! I saw it too, but didn't have the $$ or space at the time so I had to say bye bye.

What kind of sound card did it have?
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on May 08, 2008, 10:43:20 PM
Seen May 5th at the warehouse, both models of C64, although I had no chance to examine it very closely due to limited time:

(http://www.geocities.com/laverdiereaf/C64.jpg)

Call for info. That's the PSU brick sitting on top of the monitor. Good luck. :-)
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on July 22, 2008, 04:53:54 AM
Spotted July 21st!

The C= A2000 Ram board that I mentioned earlier.

A small container with about 20 to 30 IDE/Compact Flash adaptors for the insane price of $5 each!

Had to buy one of those. Soon as I find a decent size CF card, that puppy is going in my A4000!
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: countzero on July 22, 2008, 06:05:22 AM
insane price of 5$ each ? dude you got ripped off ... I buy them for 1.5$ here locally. Even ebay has them for 5$ SHIPPED.

linky (http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=ide+cf&_sacat=See-All-Categories)

now if you said SCSI/IDE adapter it would be totally different story ...
Title: Re: Weird Stuff Warehouse
Post by: Amiduffer on May 21, 2009, 06:21:54 PM
Visited May 17th. The C= monitor and Supra Ram card are still there if someone needs some extra Ram for their A2000.