What have you found in your Amiga?

[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:

[motorollin]

@eslapion
That is horrible. I would probably be traumatised if that happened to me. The poor thing. What a way to die :-(

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moto

motorollin wrote:
@eslapion
That is horrible. I would probably be traumatised if that happened to me. The poor thing. What a way to die :-(

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moto

I must admit, when I picked up the machine, the sound of what was inside moving immediately gave me the goosebumps.

Upon opening the machine, I think I turned white for a second or two. It was a serious shock.

Afterwards, when I thought of it, a computer with a big empty space in it (such as an A2000 with no Zorro card) is in fact a miniature dry sauna. It warms up the air considerably but it adds no humidity so the air becomes very dry.

The old man probably couldn't hear the small animal crying for help. The cat did try to claw his way through the accelerator and destroyed it. It was a GVP.

[madsjm]

What have I found in my Amiga?

Eternal Love!  :angel:







(Nothing sexual of course  :lol:)

[tokyoracer]

My best find was an A1200 for £1 with masses of software 80Mb hard disk, joysticks and god knows whate else! Sadly it was sold off. Should'nt have done that as it hadn't yellow'd much at all! Would love to find an A4000 one day from a guy who has no idea of it's value. You always hear of storys of neighbours giving away loads of loot but it's never I that is the lucky one.  :-(

[bloodline]

A couple of years back I decided to transplant my A1200 from it's brown disintergrating commodore case into a brand new Amiga Technologies A1200 case (from a guy who had towered his Amiga). Upon removing my A1200 Mobo, I noticed that the whole interior was covered in very sticky, smelly hot chocolate residue... (I litterly had to chip the Mobo away from the bottom of the case!!!)

When I was younger I used to pop a mug of Hot Chocolate on top of the Vents all the time, I obviously used to spill a bit, but not much... over the course of around 7 years apparently quite a lot of hot chocolate, tea and coffee had made its way inside my A1200... I decided to not clean the mobo, as it is working fine and I really don't want to upset anything..

[motorollin]

eslapion wrote:
The old man probably couldn't hear the small animal crying for help. The cat did try to claw his way through the accelerator and destroyed it. It was a GVP.

 :-o
Well at least it's in kitty heaven now :cry:

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The kitten that is, not the accelerator...
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moto

In what heaven is the accelerator?

The Amiga heaven, of course!

[steve30]

motorollin wrote:
@eslapion
That is horrible. I would probably be traumatised if that happened to me. The poor thing. What a way to die :-(

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moto

Could have been worse. e.g. It could have died in a PC.

Luckily for me, I have never found anything nasty in my Amigas .

[Fester]

A really bad packaging job from an eBay seller left me with an Amiga 2000 chalk full of popcorn packaging foam.

The cardboard box had been crushed and the faceplates on the Amiga had been busted inward. Shipping material was stuffed everywhere, even in between the power supply and the motherboard.

Suprisingly, the machine works fine.

[MickTheLip]

I found shredded newspaper and some pieces of shredded CD's along with loads of rust and stainmarks of fluid.This tried and tested A500 boots to the Workbench screen but crashes or freezesas soon as you try to actually use it from HDD or from floppy.

[weirdami]

the cheese burger mention was a random speculation with hyperbole sauce.

[Raffaele]

As being an owner of many cats, that story of the kitten really made me sad... :cry:


About my cats, I must say that they ruined with their nails an A4000 carton case and a C64 Monitor 1702 carton case.

One male cat, not neutered, pissed into Monitor 1702, and another male cat, a stray cat, pissed into a Vic20 which was stored in my car box. :madashell:

But they are just as sons to me, and I tolerated these incidents...

I have some bad experiences with cats jumping and PC monitors and hardware too... :roll:

Fortunately none took my Amigas...

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About lucky findings:

In 2000 a friend of mine who is a former Amigan and working in an enormous computer warehouse in Naples, advised me that in a cleaning stage, the warehouse owners found a GVP IV24 system complete of external Genlock box (They want to throw it out in the garbage).
He stopped them saying he will found someone who could have bought it for a reasonable price, and he sended mails to all Amiga lovers he was still in contact.

I purchased GVP IV24 for 300.000 lire (about 150 euro) out of its original price of 5.000.000/6.000.000 lire (about 2500/3000 euro).

(Now I can't recall if it was 4000 euro priced at its age... Boh?)

But considering inflaction (and the fact that with Euro in Italy it doubled the prices of everything -damn speculators!-) that amount of money that it is now equal to 2500 euro, in the age of IV24 was really more and more valuable than 2500 euro of today...    

[dauber]

Okay, eslapion, you have me beat by miles...I thought I had it bad when I opened up the case on my A4000 Power Tower a few years ago and found mouse poop in various places in side...

[Gaiyan]

Not really quite related to the topic but close. It's about what i found in my Atari STE. I hope you don't mind.

Back when I was still living in Papua New Guinea, I had an STE that I had been using for a few months. I was doing school work when all of a sudden smoke started to come out from the top of the computer. Then a loud *pop*. I was sure my beloved STE was a goner. As I rushed for the power switch at the back, I was surprised to see the computer was still running.

I opened the case waiting to see burnt circuits and a lot of damage but to my surprise there was a small gecko (a kinda lizard) all burnt up laying on top of the PSU. I have no idea how it got there and how long it had been there. Luckily no damage had been done.

Joshua.

[tradax]

Fester wrote:
A really bad packaging job from an eBay seller left me with an Amiga 2000 chalk full of popcorn packaging foam.

The cardboard box had been crushed and the faceplates on the Amiga had been busted inward. Shipping material was stuffed everywhere, even in between the power supply and the motherboard.

Suprisingly, the machine works fine.

On the "ebay shipping" side I'm always suprised that those Amiga ALWAYS work after a long international shipping! What strong machines these was :-D