Sweet local score

[Damion]

Surprisingly (for my area), I managed to pick up a nice lot of Amiga gear (aka "old junk" depending on your gender :lol:).

A2000, Rev 6.x mobo (ECS), 68030 card, near mint condition and boxed, all manuals/etc, purchased in Germany (PAL and German KB) and shipped over. 300W "BigFoot" PSU. Battery was *just* starting to fuzz, however the motherboard was 100% untouched. :-)

1084S D2, near mint condition. Both of my D1s have Orion tubes, "OK" colors, but text is fairly sharp.

1084 D, boxed, OK shape... Older Orion tube -- I have 2 of these guys, and picture quality is somewhat mediocre.

1084S D1, OK shape. AWESOME Japanese Toshiba tube, fantastic colors, reasonably sharp picture.

2 A500s, boxed, OK shape

GVP HD+, near mint condition


Plus about 1000 floppies, many books and a lot of other accessories... and the best part, everything works! :-) Obviously the guy kept them clean and out of the sun, as there is no yellowing aside from a few keys on one of the A500s.

I'm definitely getting rid of the floppies, at least one of the A500s, and most of the other things I'll likely never use.

Of particular interest to me is the A2000, since I've always preferred the wedgies and never owned a "big box". Actually, all I wanted was the A2000, but I had to take everything or nothing. :/

The A2000 is *really* starting to grow on me, in fact, I'm already thinking it would be a much nicer system with a 68060 and graphics card. I already have a spare 2 MB Agnus upgrade (sure glad I didn't sell that), and will definitely get rid of the noisy SCSI drives and go with an ACARD + IDE -> CF setup.

As an aside -- the construction of the A2000 is quite impressive... it was obviously a high-quality product intended for the professional market. Maybe Doomy was right after all? ;-)


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[Damion]

Yeah, that's definitely score!

The only cool local store here is Trader Joe's, anything more interesting and I've got to drive to Cali. :lol:

[Damion]

Finally have everything sorted... it was a major bummer to discover original disks for Unreal - minus disk 1. :-(

However, I did happen to score a CV64/3D + scandoubler (cheers Effy) for the A2000. Now I just need to find a Blizzard 2060, a network card, some kind of Z2 audio card, 3.1 ROMs... and I'll be set. ;-)





 

[Damion]

WOWZER wrote:
Nice score!
I live in the same area and wrote him about purchasing them, but wasn't to sure if I had the money to spend. By the second time I wrote him, you must have beat me to the punch.

Yeah, I actually drove out and checked everything out, and then waffled a day before finally deciding to bite. He was pretty adamant about someone taking the entire lot... and TBH, I really didn't want to have to sort through all stuff I didn't want.

I did talk him down a considerable amount from his asking price, though.

I would be interested in taking one of the A500 off your hands for a fair price.

Cool. After getting a chance to clean and inspect them a bit, one has a small crack in the case that I didn't notice before. :/ I'm probably going to part that one out for an A500/GVP A530 project I'm planning. (Trying to get a cool plexi case made for the A530, and I'll probably do some kind of vinyl dye on a _badly_ yellowed A500 case I've got laying around.)

The other (nicer) one is boxed (box only in "OK" shape), it has a trapdoor (A501) cart, rev 6A motherboard, and is configured for 1/2 meg chip, 1/2 meg fast. It's clean, not perfect (a few of the keys have yellowed a bit) but it's in great working shape. I hooked it up and booted a few games for test. The audio/video/floppy/etc all work great.

I'll PM you within the next week as soon as my schedule settles down.