Biggest lot for free!

[Kent]

Oh man... I'm dying to get my hands on a _real_ Amiga system again.  If there was any way I could get down there in my busy schedule I definately would.  Ah this sucks.

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[Kent]

Ooo, this is interesting... I might be able to work something out to pick up the whole lot.  I'll email you.

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[Kent]

I'll put it this way.  If I'm able to pick up the equipment (with consideration to Cyberus posting first), I'll ship equipment overseas if you are willing to pay cost and post up front.  I'm only wanting to get one working Amiga computer system out of this and reimbursed for the trip and testing, the rest of the equipment will be sold.  The pricing of the items will depend on what items work after testing and the demand.

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[Kent]

Jose wrote:
Why not let people on a low budget have the chance to get the Amiga, or Amiga board they haven't been able to put their hands on all these years

Let me tell you my Amiga story.

For years I was working on customizing the snot out of my Amiga system.  I wrote custom scripts and small programs that made linux geeks drool over.  I helped Martin "Mason" Mertz build some of the extension to his glow icon collection.  I helped with the debugging of Eve (text editor) and even helped write an ARexx web server.  I had created custom image sets for MUI.  My icon package I was working on made it to almost 1283 custom icons (A complete set of GlowIcons w/o the extremely ugly shadows).  I had seveal backdrops I created along with tutorials.  My setup was a 4000D converted to an Elbox Power Tower.  Inside I had two high density floppy drives, 40GB hard drive, the latest Picasso-IV, the latest Concierto, the last of the Phase5 CSPPCs (060/50 604/233) with 128MB memory.  I had a VLab, an Ariadne II, and an X-Surf.  It was a very pimp setup that cost me almost 4000 total setup (I still have the 22" true flat CRT monitor and the Altec Lansing ACS45 speakers).  One day when tweaking something on the ARexx web server I smelled smoke.  Four months later I lost the cushiest jobs I ever had (webmaster working for Gateway.com).  I was scrounging all the money I could trying to raise a child and a cheating x-wife to get the computer system fixed.  Soon after, I lost my job in the midst of the dissolution of marriage.  I was making 40,000+ a year only to turn around and be in debt up to my ankles after diving in head first.  That was in the middle of June 1999 that I've been fighting to get a real working Amiga again.  I've since piecemealed PCs together from thrown away computer systems, or received from donations due to services I've performed on their computers.  Still struggling to find even a decent job after four years, I'm back in school and only working part time.  Through all this, I've been doing everything I can to get my hands on a working Amiga again.

Here's a screenshot of my Amiga when it was working.  This shot is sporting one of the ten different "themes" I had been working on.  The site detailing my work has been archived and left in its unaltered form on the RequestFocus.com web site.

Anyway, that's my Amiga story...  So who wants to know what really happened to Jim Collas and his reasons for the abrupt ending of his Amiga career?  I think there's only five other people who know the truth behind it.  :-o

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[Kent]

Acill wrote:
You know no one cares about your story.

Whatever man...  I won't feed the trolls.

no pint for this post

[Kent]

Pyromania wrote:
Kent would you be interested in getting involded in the Open Video Toaster project? Please e-mail me the real story on Jim collas if you can.

If I have a toaster or toaster system left over after recouping my own cost, I'd be happy to donate it.  When my programming skills are better on the Amiga system, I'll donate some programming time as well.

As for the email... I'll have to think about it.  Too much at risk there, digital media and all.  Or to put it quite bluntly, it's a much bigger situation than anyone has guessed yet.

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[Kent]

Acill wrote:
Looks like Kent got the deal to go out and get it from what he told me.

I was given the confirmation to pick the lot up.  I'll be picking it up soon enough.  Once I get back to Kansas City, I'll post the entire lot prior to testing.  Each item will be given a number so I can track the testing being done.  When I get a listing of things tested (software, hardware, and misc) I'll post what is available of the lot.  So far, Acill, Roj, Cyberus, and Iamaboringperson have all made requests.  To be on the fair side, I won't post the entire list of tested equipment until after I'm done.  I'm willing to take what works and build entire systems if enough parts are available or if you just need specific things I can piece meal to a certain extent.  Let me give you an example, you can request a case, but not the case top alone.  You can request a hard drive, as long as there are enough for the working computers.  All monitors will be seperate, complete with cable and power cord.  If there are not enough power cords to go around for each computer and monitor, I will provide one at cost unless requested.  All payments must be made prior to shipping, no CODs.  I'm evaluating paypal currently but no word just yet.  I'm sorry to say that I will not accept foriegn currency... you will either need to exchange the currency or talk with me about an alternate method of payment options.

I'll keep you guys posted.

Oh yeah.  Be watching for another thread regarding the theme I was building.  I won't be able to do it right now, but I might be able to post something about it at work.

Oh yeah, hey Acill... no hard feelings man, I understand what happened.

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