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What have you found on the "side of the road"?
« on: December 12, 2009, 09:07:27 AM »
Here in Australia we have roadside cleanups where you place "rubbish" out the front of your house, and it is removed for you free of charge. It's amazing what you find in these piles sometimes! I for one love having a squizz and seeing what gems people are getting rid of! Call me a scab, that's ok :D

Amongst recent finds, things that I have kept have been - an 80mb SCSI drive from a MacLCII (now in my A1000 Phoenix), an external SCSI drive, 2 x 80gig hard drives, a 40gig hard drive, DVD drives, RAM sticks and so on. Notably, because it is Amiga related :D, I also found 4 floppy drives recently, and testing them with my A1200 revealed three were just standard PC drives, but the fourth was a direct Amiga compatible drive, an FB354! That is now amongst my spares :D

So, I ask, what Amiga gems have others found "in the rubbish"?
 

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Re: What have you found on the "side of the road"?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2010, 10:43:52 AM »
Update: About two weeks ago I was driving past a roadside cleanup and the unmistakeable blocky shape of a Commodore monitor caught my eye - I was thinking 1081. I was late for work so later on went back. As I was approaching I couldn't see the pile anymore and I was thinking all kinds of "expletives deleted" :D

But, chucked a "U-e" and saw it still sitting there. Someone had taken the cord (for scrap copper I'd say) and it was actually a 1084, not a 1081. But, next to it, was sitting a dusty A500. Bare, no power supply or anything. I picked it all up (do I really need to tell you that? :D).

Cleaned the A500 and it's quite a clean unit. Tested it and surprise, it works fine! Happy with that little find! Still looking for an A4000 ;-)