If there was a vintage comp system you could add to ...

[TheMagicM]

..your particular collection, what would it be?

Myself...I am building my C= empire.  Not necessarily Amiga.  My ultimate setup would be a *complete* Commodore Vic-20, complete w/VIC 1541, tape drive, MPS 801(or 803) printer, cartridges, etc.  I have a few vic 20's, cartridges, etc.. just bought a Vic 1541 on ebay (not a 1541 the C=64's drive)..next a complete C=64 and possibly 128, then moving on down to the PET series.

My goal almost #1 w/the Vic 20 would be to get a absoloute MINT Amiga 1000.  I'm talking original box, manuals etc.  No yellowing etc.  I see some on ebay at times but they are not in the condition I'd like.


EDIT: forgot to add.. I also have a ton of C= manuals..from games to hardware etc..bought it in a ebay lot early last year..neat stuff..then a huge C= magazine collection... BTW, I accept dontations of C= magazines..I will be doing something with them that I think will be helpful to all.

Forgot one more thing..I also want this *box* only (not the A500):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5235351472
mint condition of course...look at the bottom to see the box.

[adz]

An A3000T would satisfy my cravings...for the time being anyway :-)

[Jeff]

I have an A3000T and I would like an A4000T:-D

[Chubbyrain]

I was pleased to finally land a Commdore 128D (Best 8 bit system ever)recently. I had briefly owned a 128 (non D) when they were launched but the PSU went west and when I took it back to the store, they had sold out and weren't getting any more in due to poor sales. I came home with a 64C instead and 1571 disk drive.

If they had passed over the whole C16/Plus4 thing and gone straight to the 128d.. who knows?

As for getting other systems, aside from the usual lust for an A4000, I would like to get some of the rarer 'also ran' systems from the 80s that I saw on sale briefly. The Camputers Lynx for instance or the Sharp MZ-80B. Even a TI99-8 (never saw one on sale but they did make some!).

I share your love for the VIC-20. That was my first machine. Made me get a part time job after school so I could afford cartridges!

[adolescent]

X68000.  Maybe a FMTowns or a MSX too.  Mainly Japanese consoles we didn't get in the states.

I have enough miggies to do everything I want to.  A600, A1200, A1200/060, A3000 (down, but not out), A4000D/060, A4000/MiragePro/060, CD32.  Everything except the A4000D and the upgraded A1200 will go eventually.

[Dandy]

TheMagicM wrote:
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then moving on down to the PET series.
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Well, I've got an CBM 610 (expanded to 620 with 256kB Ram), an CBM 3040 double floppy drive station (faulty - power LED keeps blinking), suited monitor, and CBM 7-needle matrix printer (made a develish noise when printing) and about 50-100 5 1/4" disks - mainly with self-written soft on it (including some sort of graphical user interface in the style of DirOpus), as well as an "professional" (today one would say "stoneage") word processor down in my basement.

Shame that you are in the U.S. and I in Germany - else you could have it all for a few Euros...

And - oh, yes - I forgot - an tape drive (datasette) for it!

[srg86]

Persinally I'd like to get an A3000 and an A4000/040, both desktop. Trouble is that on ebay their so ***** expensive. I can't justify £250 each on Amigas.

srg

[CaseSwitch]

i'd agree with Chubbyrain - a 128D (*NOT* the DCR!) in mint condition would be my fav.
i've got one of the first 128D in my collection (from ebay), but with the floppy missing and a slightly broken case (the plastic hooks at the back are broken)...so it isn't mint at all.

i'm used to play NeoGeo MVS (arcade-PCB - own a lot of boards and ~20 carts for it), so another nice one would be a NeoGeo AES (Home-Console) in good condition.

best catch ever was a Wizard of Wor arcade-pcb build in '81 in a very good condition. looks factory new! but the price i paid was...well ~300EUR. but it was a "must have".
hell, it was pure hell to located a dealer who would import that one for me. found one here in germany - he received it from the UK, traded some other PCBs for it. was quite an act  - whole transaction (searching, trading, etc) took about 5 or 6 month. but looking at the age of the PCBs and the cage it was worth it. 24 years old and looking like new - and, what else, still functional.

[Dan]

An Access, it is the smallest amiga ever made.AGA, 030 and fastmem on a fulllength ISA-card 8-) And it had an ISA slot for adding a Ethernet-card.

[InTheSand]

I'd like a fully specced A4000 ('060, graphics card, USB, Ethernet) - and I suppose everyone else would too! Shame about the $$$ required...  :-(

I might upgrade my A3000 desktop at some point, but again, the cost is a bit prohibitive...

To complete my Sinclair collection, I'd like a little-known Science Of Cambridge MK14. For those that don't know, these predate the ZX80 and ZX81 and consist of a small PCB, hex keypad and LED display. Problem is that they're very rare and the last I saw fetched well over £300 on the UK's eBay, and the chances of me getting one now that I'm in NZ are pretty much zero!

I'd also like another rarity, the Enterprise. I think this was UK-only and was originally announced as an 8-bit killer machine. It was Z80-based and had very good graphics modes for the year of its announcement. However, by the time it was released, it was too late and the Spectrum and C64 had already got their stranglehold...

 - Ali

[Ilwrath]

Hmm... What would I want to add to my collection....?

Well, on the outlandish, rare, and not gonna happen side, a C65 would be quite cool.  :-)

On the new, yet retro cool, a C-One would be quite nice.  (I almost bought one off red, but my family and monetary situation at the moment doesn't allow me to off and spend a few hundred bucks like I used to.)

On the "looking for a garage-sale steal" I want one of those GVP A530 sidecars for an A500.  Should be in beautiful shape to go with the NOS A500, though.  :-P

And, finally, for the completely reasonable...  I want to get my SX-64 working.  I just haven't had the time to clean it all up and go in and sort out what's bad on it.  It's just a chip or solder joint on the main board.  The unit powers up and I've tested the display, so I'm quite confident it's fully repairable.  :-)

[ShawnDude]

Yeah the C65 is pretty cool. I have mine on a shelf behind my computer desk at home. I powered it up sometimes play around with it. But most of the time it just sits there on the shelf. I have thought of selling it, maybe put it on ebay sometime. The last time I saw one on ebay was 3 or so years ago and it went for over $1700. But I am afraid to part with it.

[MskoDestny]

I wouldn't mind picking up an Apple Lisa.  The company I work for actually had one, but threw it out before I could get a chance to grab it.

[glitch]

@CaseSwitch:

Hi,

     I've got a C128D in really good condition that I was planning on putting up on eBay soon.  The internal drive works great.  The only problem is the spacebar on the keyboard is messed up.  I've got the manuals and even CP/M for it too.  If you're interested send me a pmail!

-G

[Chubbyrain]

My 128D isn't the funky plastic one with the carry handle. It's the metal case one. Still a thing of beauty though as it's mint. Same goes with my Pet 2001, although that's at the repair shop with a screen fault currently.

I remember the Enterprise. Wasn't that the one with the built in joystick? It was part of the pantheon that came out during the buzz of the early 80s, alongside such others as the Mattel Aquarius, Lynx (Camputers), Color Genie etc. I miss the diversity of designs that were in computer stores back then.

Another desirable one would be the Pet that had the C64 inside it. Can't remember what that one was called.