What's the furthest distance you've travelled to collect Amiga stuff?

[InTheSand]

I'll start the ball rolling with a 1140.4km round trip (that's 712.75 of ye olde fashioned miles if you still use them!), travelling down New Zealand's South Island.

My haul of Amiga goodies was won on TradeMe (the eBay equivalent in New Zealand) and consists of:
Stock A1200 with hard drive
Stock A1200 without hard drive
A500 with 512Mb trapdoor expansion, Kickstart 1.2 and original keyboard that has a C= key!
A600 with 1Mb trapdoor expansion but broken floppy drive
A600 non-working (yellow screen on startup), missing floppy drive
3x 1084S monitors
1081S monitor (boxed)
About 50 boxed games with manuals
Several hundred magazine cover floppy disks
Literally 1000+ "other" disks (various "backups" etc!)
3x external floppy drives (original C= A1000-style)
Several joysticks (some non-working!)
7x Amiga mice (some with various problems!)
5x Amiga PSUs
External modem
About 10 technical Amiga-related books
At least one set of A1200 and A600 original manuals
Several sets of original Workbench floppies from 1.2 to 3.0
2x old dot-matrix printers
A box of cables

That lot pretty much completely filled my car up!!!

I thought it was quite a good catch for NZ$336 (about £120 or US$230), though perhaps not so good when the cost of the petrol is added! Still, I could hardly have asked for it to be shipped!!!

 - Ali

[costabunny]

you beat me - most I ever went was 170 miles from Weymouth to the other side of london in 1991 for a A2000 with 40Mb, A2086 - was a nice old bomb-proof-box tho and served me well for many years....

 :lotsacoffee:

[AmiDude]

165km, and 165km back - to pick up an old yellowed A4000 with a leaky battery.
 :lol:

 :pint:

EDIT:
There was also a C=1942 monitor included. It's not the
same A4000 I own now at the moment (that's in a white,
mint an pristine condition).
I've sold that yellowed A4000 about 3 years ago.

 :pint:

[lorddef]

Back when I was a student, I did a 12 mile round trip by foot to pick up one of those massive Eyetech A1200 towers. The 6 miles home carrying the tower wasn't really much fun.

[InTheSand]

@lorddef: by foot??!! You must have had arms like a pro wrestler by the time you got back!!!!

 - Ali

[pan1k]

I drove about 50 miles round trip to collect a car full of amiga stuff. (Software, magazines, etc) was free and took me about an 40 mins to load everything.

[ChaosLord]

At least 1300 miles round trip.
We drove my big American car.
It was quite an adventure!
I took a friend with me.  We took turns driving.
On his turn, we were halfway there and...
he crashed the car...
Luckily it was an old Dodge (think Al Bundy)
A tow truck came along and drug the car out of the mud back onto the road and we drove it the rest of the way without incident.

At one point in the journey I come to this bridge.
So I am driving along at 75 mph over this nice smooth bridge which if irc has 4 lanes total, 2 for each direction.
After 3 minutes of driving over this bridge I am like "man, this is the longest bridge ever! We've gone over 3 miles and I still can't see the end of the bridge!" (A normal HUGE bridge is around .5 miles or less.)  So I keep driving...
and driving...
hmmm...

After 10 minutes we are still on the same bridge, there is no end in sight!  I'm like "uhhh... crap... I think we are in the twilight zone. This can't be happening."
I have no choice but to keep driving...
and driving...
and driving...

After 15 minutes I am like "Dude, this is impossible.  There is no bridge in existence that is over 15 freaking miles long!  So, obviously I killed us in a car crash on this bridge and now I am condemned to drive it for all eternity without stopping :-("

We continue on...
My friend who is a hardcore atheist starts contemplating converting to religion...
After 20 minutes we are sweating and suffering anxiety.
We start to negotiate: "This bridge we are experiencing feels 100% real.  Therefore it must be real.  Therefore we are still alive, possibly in a coma, remembering our real bridge crossing... or something..."

After 25 minutes we start to wonder what happens if we run out of gasoline and we are stuck here in the middle of nowhere on a bridge that doesn't exist.

After around half an hour we FINALLY reached the end of the bridge!  Hallelujah!  Whew!  We were like "well I guess we woke up from our coma"

Days later when we got home I grabbed my almanac and looked it up and it was listed as the longest bridge in the world, over 34 miles long! But I never would have known it was there if it wasn't for the Amiga megacomputer.

[stopthegop]

Drove from St. Louis Missouri (in the middle of winter in an old rusted Honda, no less..) to Clearwater, Fla (about 800 miles) for an A4000T I won on ebay back in 1997..  At that time, most people had not yet even heard of ebay!  

[Plaz]

@ChaosLord

Good grief man, what a story! Where was that bridge? Sounds like it spanned the Grand Canyon.... length-wise! Longest bridge I drove was only about 3.5 miles.

My longest trip for Amiga equipment was only about 85 miles round trip. But it was up hill both ways on a bicycle with 2 flat tires being chased by wolfs. On the return trip the amiga's were straped to my ankles like exercise weights!

Ha, just kidding. :-P It was an air conditioned car ride with a nice radio and a cold soda.

Plaz

[Gavilan]

Well...im not sure if my stories fit into this category but anyway...here they go:

- Once i won an ebay auction. The seller only shipped to USA, so i have him sent the stuff to my father´s house (he lives in Florida). I have to wait more than 8 months to "collect the stuff". When i went to visit my father, i took all Amiga stuff he had received over those 8 months, and took them with me back home (Argentina)

- I won another ebay auction. The guy was from France, and (of course), only shipped to France. I have him sent the CD32 to my sister´s house in Paris. One year and a half later , i travelled to France because she was getting married. I then collected the CD32 and other Amiga stuff i had bought back to home. I can also mention another CD32 i won which belonged to some canadian guy who only sipped to (you guess it!) Canada. My uncle lives in Toronto, so when he went to France for the wedding, he took the CD32 with him, gave it to me, and i then brought it home with me (not to mention i spent almost 1 months travelling all across Europe with my bag full of Amiga stuff)


 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[DamageX]

I bought my A2000 when I was 700 miles away on a weekend trip. I got a C= 1702 and some other stuff too. That wasn't the sole purpose of the trip of course, but if I hadn't had the opportunity to buy a cheap Amiga that I could see working I probably wouldn't have one.

[Amiduffer]

Amiga users have to be the craziest s.o.b's! :lol: Although people who go on Fear Factor are a close second.

Farthest ever, 132 miles round trip to buy my first Amiga after getting out of the Navy, from a musician who lived by a lake near Farmington Falls Maine in a slightly rusty Dodge Aspen.

Second was 50 miles to get an A500.

[McVenco]

I guess I'm lucky that I live in Holland - you can't travel more than 200 kilometers without going abroad :-)

Anyway, I still traveled quite a distance in total to pick up my current Amiga stuff.

- 140 km roundtrip for an A1000
- 100 km roundtrip for a Blizzard PPC and 14" Microvitec monitor
- 230 km roundtrip for 3 A1200s
- 200 km roundtrip for an A1000 and A2000 (also included in this trip was a visit to a meeting of the Dutch Commodore usergroup

Since my car broke down there won't be much long trips anymore in the near future....

[Cyberus]

I once did a 500 mile round trip from Ashford, Kent to Manchester for a Power Tower, BPPC 240/60, BVision, Powerflyer, Silversurfer, scanner, zip drive, loads of games and software etc etc etc.
Was a good deal!

@ Gavilan

You are lucky to have family in so many places to visit!
If you ever want any thing in UK, I would be happy to send to you in Argentina!

[justthatgood]

Well I guess it's more sensible to drive a long distance for some vintage computer hardware, rather then driving for some "action" of other sorts. Though I've known people that have done it for both...