How far would you go to save a miggy?

[Hodgkinson]

Heh, sigh. Just been to the local tip and saw an A500 (box) under a spin dryer in one of the skips. :boohoo:

Just wondering how far anyone here might go to save a miggy from the grim reaper :devildance: ? E.g., how bigger a skip would anyone be prepared to salvage miggies from? Which miggies would you be prepared to salvage? Under what conditions?

Hodgkinson.

[darksun9210]

i dunno, would depend on what it was. i still feel even the humblest A500 deserves more than to be landfill. a big box machine could house untold treasures, ah-hargh my hearties...

i would be a little hacked off to find the A500 packaging empty if i'd shifted that dryer though...

[Tron2k2]

Hi there

Pardon me for being an ignorant American here ;-)  But is the 'local tip' a laundromat?  And what are 'the skips'?

Just curious.

[Terse]

and what is a miggy?

[gdanko]

unless its a 4000T or 3000T, not very.

[hardlink]

About 72.4 miles.

[Rob]

@Tron2k2


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[gdanko]

Tron2k2 wrote:
Hi there

Pardon me for being an ignorant American here ;-)  But is the 'local tip' a laundromat?  And what are 'the skips'?

Just curious.

I think the skips are a landfill or dump site.

[Nlandas]

Rob wrote:
@Tron2k2

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AHA! A dumpster. So there was an Amiga under a dryer in a dumpster. I've got it now. :idea:

I would definitely not be a nesh jobsworth and would put on my kecks and grab a bumbershoot and get into that skip for that miggy. :-D   Sorry I couldn't resist.

Please don't tonk me too hard in the Knackers for that one though. :-P

-Nyle  

Of course I'm probably being too much of a Spod with this post.

[Ilwrath]

I'm not above grabbing any Amiga out of a dumpster or whatever.  I'd go as far as I see one.  I mean, I'm not going to be routing around in the trash on just a random chance of there being an Amiga or something.  :lol:  But if I see one, yeah, it'll come home with me.  I usually prefer to pick them up at businesses that are removing them before they make the actual bin, though.  That is usually a more optimal solution for all parties involved.  :-)

[HopperJF]

Nlandas wrote:

Rob wrote:
@Tron2k2

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Skip

AHA! A dumpster. So there was an Amiga under a dryer in a dumpster. I've got it now. :idea:

I would definitely not be a nesh jobsworth and would put on my kecks and grab a bumbershoot and get into that skip for that miggy. :-D   Sorry I couldn't resist.

Please don't tonk me too hard in the Knackers for that one though. :-P

-Nyle  

*I would put me kecks on and get in the skip for the miggy  :-P

What is a bumbershot?

[Nlandas]

Bumbershoot - Archaic Noun for Umbrella. Some credit to the upper class of Britain.

The word is not commonly known by anyone in Britain and some credit it to early America.

I actually, threw that one in to see who was paying attention.  :-D You get the gold star.  :-)

-Nyle  

[Hodgkinson]

Thanks for the insight!

The A500 I saw was at the local tip (E.g., A place for disposing of stuff larger than will fit in the average dustbin/Garbage can). It was right at the bottom of, well, it’s not a skip, more like a reinforced articulated lorry back with the top removed kinda size. You get the idea, eg, you’d have to jump in and get a rope ladder to get out again. There was a really nice looking audio amp kinda gizmo in there to, but unfortunately the situation goes way beyond what im prepared to do. If the thing had been full, maybe the stuff could have been pulled of the top, but at the time it was only just 1/4 full.

I limit myself (Active thought required here…) to what I can reach, drag, grab, or rummage safely from the edge of whatever it’s in.

And, as you folks mentioned, there was no guarantee there was even a A500 in there, and if there was, the way the dryer must have landed would have destroyed a good chunk of the left side of the case. :madashell:
Getting them before they go to these places still beats the hell out of routing for somthing, though :-D

Keep on posting  :-D
Hodgkinson.

[B00tDisk]

If it was boxed and not submerged/covered with something dangerous or nasty, I'd snag most Amiga gear.

If it was an A2000, 3000, 3000T or 4000, I'd dive in regardless*.


*=no poo or body parts, plus it would have to be at least visually intact, eg not crushed down...so I guess I wouldn't go that far...

[Hodgkinson]

More or less what I'd do, or at least be thinking  :-D