What have you found in your Amiga?

[tradax]

Fester wrote:
A really bad packaging job from an eBay seller left me with an Amiga 2000 chalk full of popcorn packaging foam.

The cardboard box had been crushed and the faceplates on the Amiga had been busted inward. Shipping material was stuffed everywhere, even in between the power supply and the motherboard.

Suprisingly, the machine works fine.

On the "ebay shipping" side I'm always suprised that those Amiga ALWAYS work after a long international shipping! What strong machines these was :-D

[Dandy]

eslapion wrote:

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Recently, well about a few months ago I was donated a large amount of Amiga computers.
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That includes a small pile of Amiga 2000
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one of which had a small DEAD KITTEN in it.

You mean one of your Amigas was pregnant with a (dead) kitten?
 :-o

[AJCopland]

Tough? Damn right they are, when I was much younger and my A500 was relatively new to me, I was taking it downstairs to use on the big TV when it slipped form my hands at the top.

It tumbled end over end smashing repeatedly on the steps until it reached the ground floor, hurtled down the corridor and smashed the plate doorway glass window (which didn't exactly please my parents) at the front.

I was horrified and very gingerly picked it up, and checked it over. There was no visible damage so once it was back in my room (after the telling off, why do parents never accept that accidents do happen y'know... accidentally?) I plugged it all in. It worked first time.

I booted it up the other day too, that was probably 1990-ish when it took a tumble :-D

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AS for weird stuff I've only found dead insects, chewing gum (in a disk drive) and some newspaper clippings (A500+) they weren't even interesting ones so I just threw them away.

Andy