@Tension, afraid no big-box keyboards at all, and the only the one mouse per system.
@digiflip, @nicholas I've noted your interest. I'm not ready to sell them just yet, I want to clean up the systems, figure out how to bundle, and ship, them figure out which ones I should keep, etc.
@Kesa, I've always felt the same way when I've read these posts. All I can say is I got plain lucky. I've tried to pick up a few 040 boards in the past and never found one at a price point I'd been willing to pay.
@damiga. Pictures are forthcoming. Give me a few days.
I prefer not to reveal what I've spent, but lets say that I hunted around prices, and I considered the price fair for 3 stock A1200s, 3 stock A500s, and 1 68030 accellerator with some extra thrown in for the extra unidentified bits.
I originally suspected the guy was a ex-amiga user, given what he had on hand, and the way he responded to inquiries. It wasn't until I picked them up I realized this guy hadn't really ever used an Amiga. I wasn't sure if this was good, or bad.
As it turned out, the guy had books, an original 'Amiga Magic' box, discs, a bunch of adapters, so I wasn't very concerned. As I'm loading up the books, a manual for the Blizzard 1260 fell out. I commented how /that/ would be a great find. He didn't seem to understand, now I knew this guy had no idea. So I asked how he got them. Apparently he got them for _free_ for doing a favor for somebody. I guess this stuff has just been passed around by people who didn't know what they were for awhile.
It's a decent drive home, so I stop for dinner, by the time I get home, and get all this in the house its 8:30PM or so. So I pull first A1200 out of the box, notice the expansion port cover is bowed out, think to myself, "well thats cool, there's something in there." and pop it open. Giant grey ceramic square. "No... way..." I say out loud. The wife asks whats wrong. No answer. I remove the simm covering the chip number, 68060 it says on it. "This thing has an 060 accelerator", I tell the wife, or perhaps the room in general. "That's good isn't it?", she asks. "uh... yeah..."
So I gather my wits after realizing I just got extraordinarily lucky. I pull out A1200 #2. It's in good shape, the expansion port is sitting flush, and why shouldn't it be, I have an 060 in one machine, and an 030 sitting in bubble wrap, what are the odds that this thing has much of anything in it. I pop off the cover. Giant grey ceramic square."No f'in way", I say. The wife had left the room by now. This can't be right I think, so I check the chip number on this one too. 68060 it says. I go find my wife to tell her there is two of them, which is silly, cause she really doesn't care anymore that there are two 68060's than if there were two left handed smoke shifters, but I had to tell someone.
Ok, back to business, there is no way there is anything interesting left in this lot. How could there possible be. Amiga 1200 #3, its a bit yellowed, it probably PAL, not sure (I'm still not sure, I haven't checked, I mean it seems inconsequential at the moment.) The expansion port cover falls off, there is a DB25 on a ribbon cable hanging out of the back. The box isn't in terrible shape, but it has seen better days. I flip it over. Giant grey ceramic square. I put the cover back on. I box up all three machines. It was time to stop tempting fate, and get a drink. The rest of the unboxing would have to wait.
TL;DR. Wife convinced me to risk the money on six Amiga's. First three amiga's were filled with diamonds. Decided best course of action was to drink heavily.
