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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: sprocket on August 25, 2007, 02:59:05 AM

Title: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: sprocket on August 25, 2007, 02:59:05 AM

Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive for auction on ebay...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300145006955

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: jimbo100 on August 25, 2007, 04:01:05 AM

I want this drive, price to ship to Australia.

I know it will be expensive!!

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: nahoo7 on August 25, 2007, 05:11:31 AM

jimbo100 I have a commodore 1571 drive in original packaging,but no cable  PM me if you want to pay postage I live in queensland.

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: jimbo100 on August 25, 2007, 02:35:21 PM

Thanks for the offer but a completly different drive and will not work on an Amiga.

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: sprocket on August 25, 2007, 09:12:03 PM

sorry but not shipping outside the U.S.  Just too much expense and potential for problems.

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: sprocket on August 26, 2007, 02:21:40 PM

day and a half left...

7 watchers at this point!

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: Tahoe on August 26, 2007, 03:01:54 PM

You're loosing a lot of potential bidders by making it a US only affair, I know I would have bid on it.

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: jimbo100 on August 26, 2007, 03:28:30 PM

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sprocket wrote:
day and a half left...

7 watchers at this point!

Well you can count me out as I am a watcher but you refuse to ship outside of the grand old USA!

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: Rabbi on August 26, 2007, 03:50:08 PM

Can you all tell me what you'd use a 5¼" floppy drive for?  I've got 2 of them hooked up to my A1200.  The only thing I use them for is to read old M$-DOS disks. :-?

I tried to use an MS-DOS CP/M floppy disk reader under PC-Task 4.4, but it bangs the metal & wouldn't work unless it was on a real PC.

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: sprocket on August 26, 2007, 11:11:39 PM

sorry to those outside the U.S. but I need to unload a bunch of stuff quick and clean things out.  Shipping outside the U.S. has created issues for me before and increases the expense making it hard to estimate costs.

As for the uses for this drive, I'm only guessing but I'd say it would be for its collectible value only or to hack the case and use it as something other than it's original use.

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: sprocket on August 26, 2007, 11:14:07 PM

btw, far less rare but a necessity for some...

1084 RGB monitor FA also...

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31060

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: sprocket on August 27, 2007, 01:09:27 PM

I hadn't thought this item would have so much interest!

...3 bids so far and quite a few watchers.

It's amazing how much interest there still is for unusual Amiga items.

Title: Re: FA Commodore Amiga 5.25" floppy drive
Post by: jimbo100 on August 28, 2007, 09:51:41 AM

You only got four bids and someone got a cheap drive!

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sprocket wrote:
I hadn't thought this item would have so much interest!

...3 bids so far and quite a few watchers.

It's amazing how much interest there still is for unusual Amiga items.