Amiga Recycling

[irishmike]

Greetings all:

As of today (June 20, 2006) we are officially launching our company in Kansas City, Missouri USA.  We are planning to fix vintage machines (especially Amiga) and we are looking for all kinds of donations in parts.  Basically, we have a drop off scenario going for this time, but really we will take software, hardware, accessories anything EXCEPT monitors.

We are right now compiling a stockpile of repair parts and in some cases would pay shipping, but because the company has a rather tight bottom line, we will not be buying anything from ebay.   Some of the donations will go for our project and others will go to fix machines.   Currently, we make zero profit if we fix one.

It is a big project and all donations will be helpful, so if you have Amiga stuff you need to get rid of, let me know what it is and I will try to get it out of your hair.

Part of the mission of my company is to raise awareness of the community and help revitalize the brand.

A dreamer?  I may be.  But I am willing to try to stake how I make my living on it.

Anyhow, hope some of you can help.

[Gojirax]

Does this repair/recycle company have a web site?  :-D

[irishmike]

We are working on that as we speak.

[Amiduffer]

Great! No more sending machines to France to get them fixed, right? I hope you can pull this off!!  :-D

[irishmike]

I hope it works out too.  We have to of course, get some parts in stock before we can make our offerings, but once we have them... it would be nice :-)

My initial feeling is that there would be plenty of work.

[Oliver]

Hi,

I'm just curious: do you have some technicians experienced with Amigas?

[irishmike]

Do you mean as in certified?  All my technicians and of course myself are veteran PC and Macintosh Technicians.  We are familiar with the hardware and how PPCs work... we have Electronics at component level skills (ie soldering and such) I used to fix VCRs when they were around for a TV and VCR repair shop.

So our techs have lots of computer experience, but honestly not any certification for Amiga.  In fact, I would like to get some service manuals for the A1200, A2000, A3000 and A4000 for good reference. In fact if any of you have these in PDF format and would be willing to send them, please PMAIL me.

We are by no means amature at it though :-)

[Gojirax]

There used to be a nice piece of hardware/software for testing Amigas as well. I can't think of the name of it, but I'd look into it if I were you.

[motrucker]

Gojirax wrote:
There used to be a nice piece of hardware/software for testing Amigas as well. I can't think of the name of it, but I'd look into it if I were you.

You are no doubt reffering to the Amiga Analyzer. It helped pin point some problems, but all in all not a great deal of help to a tech.

[Gojirax]

Thanks MoTrucker That's the one.

It's good for analyzing base system components. I remember seeing one in action once at a local computer store.

[DamageX]

see here for some manuals and schematics
http://www.1000bit.net/support/manuali/manuali.asp

[Boot_WB]

Hey dude, shame you're not in the UK I've got some a couple of spare C64s and Vic-20s I would have donated.

No to mention an a500, a600 and a non-working a4000 taking up room.

[irishmike]

@Boot_WB

Check your PMAIL my friend :-)

Thanks.


@everyone

If you decide you are going to sell anything (on eBay) Amiga related (software too) please PMAIL me with the information, I might just save you listing fees!   We of course, are looking for donations and could REALLY use your help.

I personally am still looking for a few pieces of kit especially
this.

[BigDazza]

Good stuff! Congrats on setting up such an important service. When I start up my site, I'll refer you to all the Aussies that need repairs or want to donate and are prepared to pay for postage!

[JimS]

Gojirax wrote:
There used to be a nice piece of hardware/software for testing Amigas as well. I can't think of the name of it, but I'd look into it if I were you.

Commodore had a 'systest' disk that was usefull for stress testing intermittant problems. They also had a diskalign program for floppy drives, but this required a special disk with alignment patterns written on it. I used it a couple times, but it was usually better to replace the drive. Nowadays, that might be more difficult. :-)