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I'll start the ball rolling with a 1140.4km round trip (that's 712.75 of ye olde fashioned miles if you still use them!), travelling down New Zealand's South Island.

My haul of Amiga goodies was won on TradeMe (the eBay equivalent in New Zealand) and consists of:
Stock A1200 with hard drive
Stock A1200 without hard drive
A500 with 512Mb trapdoor expansion, Kickstart 1.2 and original keyboard that has a C= key!
A600 with 1Mb trapdoor expansion but broken floppy drive
A600 non-working (yellow screen on startup), missing floppy drive
3x 1084S monitors
1081S monitor (boxed)
About 50 boxed games with manuals
Several hundred magazine cover floppy disks
Literally 1000+ "other" disks (various "backups" etc!)
3x external floppy drives (original C= A1000-style)
Several joysticks (some non-working!)
7x Amiga mice (some with various problems!)
5x Amiga PSUs
External modem
About 10 technical Amiga-related books
At least one set of A1200 and A600 original manuals
Several sets of original Workbench floppies from 1.2 to 3.0
2x old dot-matrix printers
A box of cables

That lot pretty much completely filled my car up!!!

I thought it was quite a good catch for NZ$336 (about £120 or US$230), though perhaps not so good when the cost of the petrol is added! Still, I could hardly have asked for it to be shipped!!!

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Re: What's the furthest distance you've travelled to collect Amiga stuff?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2007, 01:05:40 AM »
@lorddef: by foot??!! You must have had arms like a pro wrestler by the time you got back!!!!

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Re: What's the furthest distance you've travelled to collect Amiga stuff?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2007, 11:56:53 PM »
Looks like ChaosLord went the longest distance by a huge margin! Then again, the US is pretty large! Can't drive that far in New Zealand or you fall into the sea!

Where was that bridge in the end?

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Re: The longest bridge on Earth
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2007, 03:06:06 AM »
Good old Internet! That's one long bridge!!!

 - Ali