Take this, eBay ! (best XMas so far)

[xaccrocheur]

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:

[DrValkyer]

You are so lucky!! :-) That happens once in a life time.

[doctorq]

Sounds like a very good deal, so congratulations on that :-)

I have made a better deal once, but in respect to the seller, I'd better not post about it here ;-)

[xaccrocheur]

this machine was the star of my young dreams. I want an A3000 since the day that I read the specs. Now I'm 37, I got a little money, and this machine is STILL a killer, perfectly fitted for what I need it to do (apart from speed, of witch you can never have enough, but life IS a tradeoff)

Mind you, this is a very special deal. X, the seller, was looking for somebody who neede his seetup, not just some collector, or worse, an "eBay pro". :whack:

Hell, I told him straight away "man, it's cheap". He made it clear that the money was not the issue at all. He wanted this setup utilised. BTW He showed me his Amiga Forever setup on a BIG toshiba laptop, where he transferred the whole setup. the guy is loyal :knuddel:

Big UP to you, man !! . :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  (huh, got change? :-D ) :pint:  

So what happened is LUCK, in the 1st place. Life is a labour of love

[leofoe]

Still looking for an A3000D  :cry:

[motorollin]

You lucky b*s*a*d!!! I paid over 500 quid for my A1200  :-o  It was worth it, but why don't bargains like that ever come my way?  :roll:

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moto

[Argus]

Sadly, I'm sure nice setups like that sometimes just end up at the recyclers  Congratulations an keep 'er nickel!

[xaccrocheur]

Argus wrote:
Sadly, I'm sure nice setups like that sometimes just end up at the recyclers  Congratulations an keep 'er nickel!

Mm.. Not sure. See, I may well be wrong, but I think that in it's very essence, the Amiga setups tend not to end up on the scrap heap. For one of the very reason that pissed us off : It's rarity & price, at all times, even when it was, hum, available.

The only case that I can imagine is that the guy dies. He leaves behind, say a whole Toaster station, complete w/ PAR & stuff. Even so, the guy was an Amiga-user, so he obviously bored his loved ones and close friends to death with Amiga stories all his life, so even in this case, I cannot imagine his childrens, wife or relatives, trashing the whole treasure away.

I dunno, I may be wrong. Just something I though about in the train, sitting on my new toy, that will not, even her, be eternal. Have you hugged your Amiga today ?  ;-)

[drHirudo]

Have you hugged your Amiga today ?

No, but it's cold outside and I have no heater, so the only warm coming is from my A1-C and it's monitor.