OK, the deal is finally done. If this MSG sounds weirdd, it's because I've been holding my breath for a big week.
10 days ago I noticed a 2 weeks old ad in a small french Amiga Forum&News website, huh, actually
the only one left in France, that said something along the lines of
A3000 Apollo060, Cybervision64/3D, various SCSI stuff, 200€ à débattre. Phone# ("A débattre" means that the seller is ready to lower the price if the buyer has a good reason for him to)
Hum, I was thinking. The stuff, if in working order, is already a steal, *and* the guy thinks it's not cheap enough ? Plus I noticed the adress, 400Kms in straight line (here we say "by bir'd fly") away from Paris ; I phoned with very little hope.
The guy responded at the 2nd ring, the deal was done very quickly, I booked a train ticket (100€) for the next WeekEnd and arrived yasterday in X' at 14:00 ; The man, very nice sounding, named X, wanted to lift me at the station but I preffered to try the X' tramway.
When I arrived the system was running for me to see it, X took it out of a BIG, foam padded, hard&dry fligh-case where it was stored all the time. The house is shiny clean, X is calm and smart, and as a result I'm yet to see a *cleaner* system than this whole setup. This 3000 baby is
[color=ff0000]nickel[/color][/i], as we say here.
Long story short, 3 hours later I was in the TGV (Paris/X' in 02:12!) with one new real flesh&bones friend in my Palm Address book (Hi X) and four big boxes padded w/ neat air cushions. He carried me to the station w/ his car, and helped me to haul the stuff into the train. Some guy looked at the screen and made a face like "PC are so cheap that I would'nt bother hauling one over 400KMs". Little did he knew.
In the boxes (sorry, long list):
Amiga 3000@25MZh (1)
Apollo 4060@50MZh/64Mg RAM
CV64/3D (PhaseV)
Nokia 17" (31KHz capable) monitor (2)
Amiga Mouse, new
Amiga 3000 KeyBoard (3)
SyQuest SCSI box (60W double PSU) w/ Yamaha 40x RW writer.
Single slim ext. SCSI reader (w/ audio outs!) (4)
KVM Switch (5)
Belkin Data switch (6)
Single External MIDI interface
MicroDeal PROMIDI triple External MIDI interface (7)
QuickShot joystick, looks new
ALL wiring, SCSI, MIDI, CINCH etc
SOFTWARE !
A big curver plastic box filled with boxes and CD's, all original, including OS 3.5, 3.9, WordWorth7, Make CD, a *gorgeous*, mint ElviraII Box (jaws of Cerberus) with EVERY single item inside, including the 7 disks, the rotating cardboard, the mini-poster, and the 30 pages manual that starts with "Hey you nice butt !" and other marvels, like Octamed6 CD&CompanionCD, Make CD, tons of Amiga PDCDs, ALL official, and registered when applicable products (
MATERIAL CDs !
too many CDs to mention, really, like MIDIfiles, Sounds terrific, An Encycopaedia, the whole collection of AmigaDream, a magazine that is still around and issued a lot of GNU-related material CDs between 96&2006, like RedHat 5.2 for Amiga, the whole collection of CDLires, filled w/ images and anims (like the IMAGINA selection of the year(s)) and many, many, many more titles, ALL in mint condition, booklet & all.
BOOKS ! 4 of them :
# The big book of Amiga priters (feh)
# The big book of Amiga BASIC (Miam ! 700 Pages, Data Becker ed.)
# The book of Deluxe Paint III (Miam ! 300 Pages large format, Data Becker ed.)
# Personal Paint 6.4 Manual
# AmigaDOS, by Kerkloh, Tornsdorf & Zoller (300 Pages Data Becker ed.)
PRESS !
Basically EVERY SINGLE issue of (nearly) ALL french presse issued between 1996 and 2004, that covers One magazine (ANews) and two fanzines (Amiga POWA & Boing Attack, quality-made color 'zines, à la TotalAmiga)
Plain Amiga logo sticker (9)
Amiga power sticker (9)
EVERY single of these items has it's manual, registration info (filled&returned) and various infos (xeroxed hacks, internet printouts of very cool info) nicely filed in a big red binder. The documentation
cannot be more clean & tidy.
So at the end,
(1)=buster rev11 All RAM slot populated
(2)=w/ Built-in speakers, and yet not bulky, *very* sharp & neat.
(3)= He used it to switch between the CV, and the 31KH of the 3000
(4)=Multi-usage DB25 switcher w/ gender changers on all ports
(5)=brand new (so white you need flicker-fixing glasses)
(6)=looks like a AppleCD300.
(7)=this thing, that never worked, is a ripoff. I'll post pictures and you won't believe how crappy made it is.
(=Yes, I *know* that I'm NOT technically registered myself
(9)=I would'nt want it any other way :crazy: 
