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Title: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 08, 2006, 07:04:52 PM
If there is anybody out there who has a spare Amiga 2000 please let me know. I will pay for shipping. Keyboard and monitor has been donated earlier this week.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: koaftder on January 08, 2006, 10:40:18 PM
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brianjax wrote:
If there is anybody out there who has a spare Amiga 2000 please let me know. I will pay for shipping. Keyboard and monitor has been donated earlier this week.


Then you could part it out and make a lick on ebay.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 09, 2006, 12:13:45 AM
No, that was not the plan. I am trying to get a machine together again.

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koaftder wrote:
Then you could part it out and make a lick on ebay.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: DaBest on January 09, 2006, 12:19:06 AM
Good luck.
I hope you get one.
I am still looking for a donation for an A4000 motherboard.
 :-D  :-)  :-D  :-)  :-o  :-?  :lol:
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 09, 2006, 12:22:45 AM
The difference between you and me is that you already have an Amiga, a nice one indeed.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 09, 2006, 12:23:47 AM
Even just an EMPTY CASE would be a great start. So if somebody out there towered their Amiga and got a spare desktop case, please let me know.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: nasty on January 09, 2006, 12:36:16 AM
Since we're on about freebies, would anyone like to donate a Porsche 911 . It needs to be yellow convertible but any colour would do at a push and if you want can you include a nice A4000 with cyberstorm PPC in the boot:lol:



Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 09, 2006, 12:53:51 AM
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nasty wrote:
Since we're on about freebies, would anyone like to donate a Porsche 911 . It needs to be yellow convertible but any colour would do at a push and if you want can you include a nice A4000 with cyberstorm PPC in the boot:lol:


It is all about proportional, if I could afford it I would give you a Porsche. Seriously.
Toy-car or the real one?  ;-)
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: nasty on January 09, 2006, 01:05:56 AM
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Toy-car or the real one?  


did they make a micro micro A4000 :-P

You might want to give a reason why your wanting someone to donate a A2000 for free! e.g for some kind of project, you own some sort of Amiga museum! Other words this topic is just gonna be fulled with stupid remarks like my one asking for a porsche or people thinking your just gonna sell it on ebay and make a quick buck! I sadly dont own an A2000 and i dont think I've been in the same place as one of them so I can't give you one :-)
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 09, 2006, 01:40:18 AM
...I just did not want to make up some story about some project. Off course it is for my self, I just don't have the kind of money. And I sure do miss my Amiga.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: TjLaZer on January 09, 2006, 03:07:40 AM
A2000's are very cheap if you get just the computer alone w/o monitor.  Try ebay and bid on a dirty one and you're sure to get it cheap!  I found one for $25 Buy it now.  :)
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: dnelsonfl on January 09, 2006, 03:55:35 AM
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brianjax wrote:
Off course it is for my self, I just don't have the kind of money.


I sure can agree and say I know exactly how you feel. But if you are very patient, you could set up a few "favorite searches" on Ebay. You can then set it to email you a daily status of any new Amiga 2000 listings. Then you can pick and choose and try bidding on some of the more reasonable ones. Eventually you will win what you are looking for. That's how I end up doing it and being cash-strapped. Sure, it takes a long time, but eventually ...

If you are open-minded, a few people on here might be able to offer you a 2000 at a reasonable price. Or you can try comp.sys.amiga.marketplace newsgroup or Amibench (http://www.amibench.com/). I've done a few deals with very nice people on all three locations.

-David
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: nagaflas on January 09, 2006, 03:55:51 AM
Dude, just go on eBay. After a while, you will find one cheap (50 bucks or less is my idea of cheap, but that may be too much for you).

Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: koaftder on January 09, 2006, 04:01:22 AM
I bought an a3000 motherboard off ebay for 100 bucks. I did a little hack jobbie to get it powered off a spare atx powersupply i got from a case i found in a trash can... I bought a kb for it off ebay for next to nothing.

If you dont have the resources to buy a cheap amiga, why not just use UAE? It's free and gives you way more flexability anyway. I bought an a1000 to play old games again, but i ended up using UAE instead. No more screwing around with stacks of floppies or waiting for crap to load. UAE means i can take that pimp 21" lcd i just got and drive it at 320x200x32 colors and draw stick figures in dpaint.

At the very least, you could have offered to detial somebodys car or service their wife for a box.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: nagaflas on January 09, 2006, 04:23:02 AM
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At the very least, you could have offered to detial somebodys car or service their wife for a box.


The good old bartering system!
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: orange on January 09, 2006, 08:00:45 AM
@brianjax

don't loose hope, just stick around for a while and someone will surely help you sooner or later. it would be easier if you were from Europe as there are many old Amigas out here.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 09, 2006, 02:03:15 PM
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At the very least, you could have offered to detial somebodys car or service their wife for a box.


Anything else I should have done? If you noticed I wrote (Florida) in the subject line, in case somebody from Florida responded I would have thrown in some goodies, but it is quite hard to haul stuff to Virginia Beach.

I will service this girl for a box. *lol*

http://koft.net/BSDGirl/ (http://koft.net/BSDGirl/)

Is that your sister?  :-P
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: AmiDude on January 09, 2006, 02:16:44 PM
That's one skinny girl! :lol:
Is she over 18?
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: motorollin on January 09, 2006, 02:34:20 PM
Who do I have to sleep with to get a free A4000? ;-)

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moto
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: AmiDude on January 09, 2006, 02:35:59 PM
@motorollin wrote:
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Who do I have to sleep with to get a free A4000?


Probably with Bill Gates! :lol:
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: motorollin on January 09, 2006, 02:39:53 PM
I doubt he has got one. You have two though.....  ;-)  :-P  :lol:

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moto
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: giZmo350 on January 09, 2006, 02:42:19 PM
 :crazy:
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: AmiDude on January 09, 2006, 02:42:41 PM
@motorollin wrote:
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I doubt he has got one. You have two though...


Yeah, that's right! But I'm not gonna sleep with you... :lol:
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: motorollin on January 09, 2006, 02:44:51 PM
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AmiDude wrote:
@motorollin wrote:
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I doubt he has got one. You have two though...


Yeah, that's right! But I'm not gonna sleep with you... :lol:

Your loss :roll: :lol:

Can I have one anyway? For nothing? To keep forever and ever?

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moto
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: AmiDude on January 09, 2006, 02:47:33 PM
@motorollin wrote:
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Can I have one anyway? For nothing? To keep forever and ever?


Sorry dude! I really can't do that...Both A4000's have
cost me a small fortune!
 :-D
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: gdanko on January 09, 2006, 02:50:06 PM
You guys need to learn to work the system. I got three free 2000s in under a week. :)
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: motorollin on January 09, 2006, 02:51:38 PM
Oh go on, I can't afford to buy one. And it is for a project after all. And then, um, I'll donate it to a museum! ;-)

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moto
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 09, 2006, 02:55:36 PM
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You guys need to learn to work the system. I got three free 2000s in under a week


Work the system, huh? As long as it is legal I am interested.  :-)
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: gdanko on January 09, 2006, 03:17:17 PM
There are tons of people with Amigas in their garages collecting dust. Often they want to get rid of them but do not want to put them in the trash because they had invested so much in them years ago. You post an ad in the local paper or on Craigslist and state that you are wanting to take them off peoples hands and give them a good home. Voila' you have a ton of Amigas.

This is what I paid for mine...

A3500 - Free
A4000 - Free
A3000D - Free
A3000T + A2000 + A1200 + 2 NICs + 2 SVGA + CSPPC - 200 USD
A2000HD + 2320 + tons of software - 40 USD
A2000 + tons of software (OS 3.5, OS 3.9, IBrowse, Miami Deluxe, etc).. Free
A2000 + C128 + 1010 floppy + 2x1571 + manuals and software - Free

You can do the same if you really want to. :)
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: koaftder on January 09, 2006, 03:24:54 PM
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brianjax wrote:
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At the very least, you could have offered to detial somebodys car or service their wife for a box.


Anything else I should have done? If you noticed I wrote (Florida) in the subject line, in case somebody from Florida responded I would have thrown in some goodies, but it is quite hard to haul stuff to Virginia Beach.

I will service this girl for a box. *lol*

http://koft.net/BSDGirl/ (http://koft.net/BSDGirl/)

Is that your sister?  :-P


If she was i would definately need the tagline, "Incest is best, put your sister to the test"

Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 09, 2006, 05:37:52 PM
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If she was i would definately need the tagline, "Incest is best, put your sister to the test"


Okaaaay...just wondering, see, I don't have pictures of little girls on my web page, out of curiosity I had to ask.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: countzero on January 09, 2006, 11:42:00 PM
isn't this the bsd in freebsd (http://www.freebsd.org) ?
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: koaftder on January 10, 2006, 02:39:08 AM
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countzero wrote:
isn't this the bsd in freebsd (http://www.freebsd.org) ?


Yup, the picture dump was passed around a lot back in the day as a bsd joke. Personally i take offense that the previous poster basically occuses me of having innaproprate material on my website.
Title: Re: Please donate an A2000 to me (Florida)
Post by: brianjax on January 11, 2006, 12:19:15 AM
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Personally i take offense that the previous poster basically occuses me of having innaproprate material on my website.

Who, me?

See, had you now attached a .txt file in that directory, explaning, nobody would have said a word.

There is a logo on the pictures saying peachez16.com or something like that. I cleared my cache after visiting your web-site.  

Nobody is accusing you of anything, people just wrote, is she over 18.

So, you have no reason to be offended. Easy now.  :lol: