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Amiga.org specific forums => New User Introductions => Topic started by: watchtower on September 15, 2004, 02:09:12 PM
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Geetings to you all, I am now back in the Amiga fold after many years Amiga berift. I used to have a 600 that was used for games. It was the end of a long list of home computer ( TRS 80, Dragon 32, Spectrum, C64, Atari 800, Atari st's)before a 386!
I recently bought a big, box of Amiga stuff for £5 at a boot sale in Essex (UK). In it was a a 600, A1200, A500 + GVP HD - ext floppy - something called a 520? an outboard video controller of some kind and lots of odd connectors. There was even an old vic20 in there!!
Not sure what to keep yet but It was a real thrill to power up the A1200 and play a couple of old games.
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Welcome back :-) Whereabouts in the UK are you, out of interest?
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HI I'm in Kilburn London. But am realy an Essex boy lived in Southend Essex for many a year but London based for the last five years.
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Wow you got a good deal on all that Amiga stuff, I think I should start visiting car boots :-)
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You got a good bargain there . :-)
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I asked the guy how much he wanted for it and he said a fiver - i didn't have the cheek to offer £2.50. I go to lots of car boots to look for old games (computer and board) My back room is now full of computers found for a few quid ( 5 X Atari ST's in various flavours- 4 C64's + 1541's, Various spectrums, Amstrads, MSX, 8 bit Atari's etc) - I buy the games and the computers normally get thrown in as the seller's don't want to take them home again!
Just playing with the A1200 and found that its got a 200mb hard drive in it - bonus - didn't come with any manuals and it's giving my memory banks a jolt trying to remember what's where!!
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'sfunny - the US equivalent of the "car boot sale" is probably the local Flea Market. The used computer sales there are almost exclusively '286 to Pentium-I machines. Occassionally an Apple II or C64 gets pitched in there.
The thrift stores 'round here are so dirty (physically, everything inside is grimy) I can't bring myself to go in.
I guess if I ever wanted a classic Amiga I'd have to pay the exhorbitant prices charged by online stores (and hope the damn thing works).
Or maybe I'll just keep usin' WinUAE ;)
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We also have a lot of 'charity shops' set up in every high Street I have about 30 within a couple of miles. They are great for old games on all sorts of platforms. Not sure if you get them in the US? They always have two 70+ ladies pricing things up at 25 pence talking about internal investigations at the hospital and what carried off their dear departed husbands.
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watchtower wrote:
We also have a lot of 'charity shops' set up in every high Street I have about 30 within a couple of miles. They are great for old games on all sorts of platforms. Not sure if you get them in the US? They always have two 70+ ladies pricing things up at 25 pence talking about internal investigations at the hospital and what carried off their dear departed husbands.
Yeah, the Salvation Army and Goodwill stores are probably the equivalent; the local one down by me is pretty drab; the last thing in there they had that caught my eye was an old Thrustmaster joystick for $2.99; Felt like the vertical axis was broken, though. That and a trio of PC keyboards with AT style plugs that looked like they'd been buried in garbage for about a month...didn't even physically touch 'em...