Oy. Still cooling down from this. Grabbed this on eBay and it arrived today.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/251288408135
My tweets ( @blakespot ) tell the story, I'll just copy them here:
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Nice packing job on this 28 year old Amiga 1010 drive. Hardly worth plugging it in to see if it still works. #idiots http://t.co/Uo2OofBNQ4
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Unwrapping the 1010 floppy drive reveals jostling rammed the ejector into the drive, bending, breaking it. #****wits http://t.co/x0VyCfGdip
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Bahh. Needless and sad.
bp
When I sold my Amiga 2000, I wrapped it in bubble wrap, then put two pieces of square cardboard under it, filled that with that easy foam for insulation, then filled the sides and the top, the only way you were going to hurt that baby was to run over it with a steam roller. The only thing was I forgot about the Apollo 68030 accelerator in the A2000, I guess sometime during its trip to CA. it got smacked hard and came loose, I received a phone call from the purchaser saying it didn't work and of course the purchaser knew absolutely zero jack about Amiga's. It took me three days to figure out what was wrong. Just telling her how to open it was hello operator. Anyhow on the third day finally figured out the Apollo just popped loose.
So ===== when you sell your Amiga, ask if they are experienced in the Amiga scene.
Oh by the way, just open up the drive, if you get lucky, the button just go pushed in and with a little push, you might push it back to re align with the button hole and go back out and work, I know my drive did this on the move from Florida, to Pennsyltucky, home of a bunch of darn yankees that I have to put up with. Heck the stupidest person in the south would look like a genius up here in yankee land. The only reason we lost the war was because we didn't have the money. The darn carpetbaggers took care of that.
smerf
