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Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« on: January 21, 2011, 05:26:44 AM »
Some guy got his console collection nuked during the Australia QLD floods..

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/01/vintage-gaming-collection-washed-away-in-aussie-floods/
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2011, 05:37:45 AM »
It looks like much more than just a console collection. Look in the top left corner. It looks like a control panel straight from a full size arcade machine. Very nice. Shame about the collection though but what else do you expect from a cane toad?

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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2011, 06:33:23 AM »
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Shame about the collection though but what else do you expect from a cane toad?


Care to explain what you mean by that? I really hope you didnt mean to imply that because he's from Qld. he was somehow to blame, or even that it's ok (even if it was in jest) ?
If that was the implication then I congratulate you for being the worlds biggest cockroach.
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2011, 07:37:59 AM »
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Care to explain what you mean by that? I really hope you didnt mean to imply that because he's from Qld. he was somehow to blame, or even that it's ok (even if it was in jest) ?
If that was the implication then I congratulate you for being the worlds biggest cockroach.

LOL

What i meant was because he's a Queenslander if it wasn't the floods it  would have been something else. Everyone south of the border knows that  Queenslanders are cursed... :)

Going by your unusually defensive reaction i am assuming you live in Queensland. If that's the case then i feel for you... :)

As for being called "the world's biggest cockroach", well... well that hurts a lot :(
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2011, 09:45:02 AM »
Nope, Im not from Qld., I just have a little thing I like to call sympathy. As for the cockroach comment I didnt say you are, but rather that you are if your comment was intended as it sounded. You say it wasnt your intention and I have no interest in argueing that. Only you know for sure.
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2011, 10:09:15 AM »
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If that was the implication then I congratulate you for being the worlds biggest cockroach.


I don't think you're remotely qualified to award that accolade .. have you seen Kesa play rugby? I haven't but I bet if he did make the NSW side, there'd be a bit more noise about it on these forums.

:-)
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2011, 10:26:38 AM »
Didn't 50% of QLDers moved there from other states. Pitty bout the mess. And people in New castles shouldnt throw haggis.
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2011, 10:50:53 AM »
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I don't think you're remotely qualified to award that accolade .. have you seen Kesa play rugby? I haven't but I bet if he did make the NSW side, there'd be a bit more noise about it on these forums.

:-)

That's thumbs up EvilGuy! :)
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2011, 10:52:29 AM »
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I don't think you're remotely qualified to award that accolade .. have you seen Kesa play rugby? I haven't but I bet if he did make the NSW side, there'd be a bit more noise about it on these forums.

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Hehe, took me a second to work out what you meant. Im from Victoria and dont follow rugby (am an AFL guy along with most of the rest of my state)  :)

Back on topic though, poor guy, looks like quite a nice collection. Hopefully with a bit of time and effort though he'll be able to salvage a lot of it though.
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2011, 11:01:34 AM »
Unlikely. Mud and electronics DO NOT mix well together. I'm willing to bet it's all junk now :(

I genuinely feel for the guy. Such a nice collection and most of it with no cash value. Must have taken him a long time to build up a collection like that so i won't be surprised to find he has left his hobby of retro computing for good :(

Where are the Amigas? I see nothing :confused:
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2011, 11:09:34 AM »
Actually that sort of stuff is quite resilient. I know this 1st hand as my place was flooded a few months back and a lot of my stuff was submerged. Next to nothing was lost after things had some time to dry out. It'll take a bit of time for him to clean his gear, but Id be willing to bet that a reasonable portion is salvagable.
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Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2011, 11:16:41 AM »
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Unlikely. Mud and electronics DO NOT mix well together.


Hose it all off, it'll be good as new.

The only things wrecked would be things made of paper.
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2011, 11:54:35 AM »
Those game and watch devices are toast.
Is that a bunch of external hard drives stacked up in one picture?

I keep a lot of my stuff in plastic storage bins. If I was going to be flooded I could seal the bins with duct tape and stack them up high somewhere.
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2011, 12:18:03 PM »
its not like he is going to be able to bring this stuff into the afterlife either, I think most collectors sometime forget that.
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Re: Poor guys collection in QLD floods
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2011, 12:19:43 PM »
Having grown up on the NSW Far North Coast, QLD was always a presence.  Sydney was on the TV but whenever we needed to shop we headed to the Gold Coast.  We went to Syndey maybe once a year and yet that was what we somehow identified with.

The road to Gold Coast was formidable, full of trucks and the only overtaking point had a speed camera in the middle of it.  I wonder now that it is dual carriageway whether it feels so in modern kids minds?

Each State has it's good an bad.  I know Victorians that fly to QLD because they don't want to drive to through NSW.
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