What have you found in your Amiga?

[Ross1]

I was reading this post and thought I would ask people what they have found inside their Amiga causing problems after purchasing it used from someone. (cheese burgers stuffed into the ram slots, Paper clips inside the floppy drive etc.)
There seems to be some people that just do not take care of them.

[kd7ota]

I dont think much of my amigas had anything in them when I got them because the previous owner did take allright care of them.

As far as odd things, the layers and layers of dust and the dust bunnies were there too!  :-o

I remember my Amiga just stayed on the purple screen and didnt go any further... and the second I cleaned all the dust, it fixed the problem.

[TheMagicM]

I recieved a rusted out A500... rust under the mobo.. thent here were chip 'standoffs' on each removeable chip that had pins.  Meaning, the kickstart plugged into a standoff, which plugged into another and another..until it was about 1" off the mobo. lol

[Tomas]

I bought an a2000 not so long ago... The keyboard arrived with 20% of the keys missing and i found the floppy drive laying ontop of the mobo, as it did not seem to be screwed in place.
The good thing is that the a2000 seemed to work even though the floppy drive have jumping around on the mobo during shipping. The sad part is that i have no spare amiga keyboard and i dont know where to get one.  :-(

[Lemonty]

I once found a custom reset button (or I think it was) in a A4000 I once bought. Turned out it had been used on a ferry as an info kiosk or something. In addition, there was a Cyberstorm 060 MKII in there as well. One of my lucky finds I guess.
Which begs the question:
What was your luckiest Amiga find?

[Ross1]

Lemonty wrote:
Which begs the question:
What was your luckiest Amiga find?

Thats certainly my most recent A4000D complete with Video Toaster 4000 Flyer system for $150US

[James]

As mentioned it or originating post... I have found a plant, complete with roots stem and leaves in the internal disk drive of an A1000. And in the external 1010 drive that came with it, an invoice for something I have yet to decipher.

My luckiest find was when I bought my 1200. The guy never turned it on, didn't know the first thing about Amigas, had it cheap in a garage sale. It had a 80mb HD and a DKB Cobra accelerator with 32mb of ram on it.

On an unrelated, related note (err?). There is this myth in the synthesizer world. One guy had bought a Minimoog but the damn thing keep going out of tune, moreso than they usually do from room temperature. He brought it to a repair shop and they found a pair of long nose pliers inside, with "Bob Moog" written on the handle.

[Damion]

Fortunately, all the Amiga gear I've ever received has been OK. I've never found any "crazy" deals either (like the A4000 for $150), but I did get an A500 stash once for free, which included an A530 Turbo, an ICD AdRam 540 (fully populated), various custom chips and software, etc.

I'd love to walk into a local thrift store and find something cool (like 10 NIB A3000s), but the chances of that happening here are pretty slim . ;-)

[MaDDuck]

I've been lucky enough to get all of my Amigas (500,2000,1200,4000D) new so I got to avoid this horror. Although I am still fishing around for a used A600 NTSC right now!

However.......

If anyone out there ever bought one of my machines, I always taped a card inside saying my name and when I bought it! Anybody here have one of mine??

[Piru]

I found my refurbished "new" A1200 HDD with two partitions. First was pretty much stock WB, 2nd had tons of p*rn.

Now, that I call service.

[tomswift]

I hesitate to talk about my luckiest Amiga find since someone here might have purchased one of my systems.  I found out about a guy who had bought a pallet of computer hardware at a college surplus computer equipment auction and that there might be some Amiga equipment.  Went by his shop and he was throwing the Amiga equipment away because he didn't know anything about it.  Talked to him a LONG time and then made the offer.  $10 apiece for the equipment.  He said sounds good since he's throwing it away.  Loaded it up and checked it out when I got home.  Three A4000T's with 060's and four A3000's.  Mind you none had mice, keyboards or monitors but boy was I LUCKY.  Seven nice systems for $70 total.  Sold the A4000T's for $500 apiece and one of the A3000's for like $225.  Please don't hate me.  8P

[koaftder]

i hate you

j/k
 :-D

[rkauer]

I've receive an A2000, with a GVP 030 combo with full memory banks (4x 4Mb GVP SIMMs! Hoorra!),  2 SCSI HDs for free.

The guy say to me the hardware was fried. Nah, the only thing fried was the floppy drive.

Ross1 wrote:
I was reading this post and thought I would ask people what they have found inside their Amiga causing problems after purchasing it used from someone. (cheese burgers stuffed into the ram slots, Paper clips inside the floppy drive etc.)
There seems to be some people that just do not take care of them.

Recently, well about a few months ago I was donated a large amount of Amiga computers. Some of which I have to donate back for lack of use for them and for lack of storage space and for lack of time to pack and ship them and for... well you get the picture.

None of these machines have even been powered once in the last 13 years.

That includes a small pile of Amiga 2000... one of which had a small DEAD KITTEN in it.

Yuck!!!

The cat wasn't even rotting, it had totally dried out. It didn't even smell anything particular.

Well, that's my most disgusting Amiga story EVER... but its true.

That kitten, I suspect, probably hid in the machine when the cover was half opened. The original owner was an old man with poor eyesight and hearing problems just shut the case on the machine then brought it for repair.

My friend simply storaged the machine when the original owner died before the machine even got diagnosed.

That Amiga booted up just fine after cleaning it up.

[quenthal]

eslapion wrote:

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That Amiga booted up just fine after cleaning it up.

That was so disgusting that no-one possibly can think of suggesting new logo for Amikit... :sealed: