Skeletons in your closets!

[gizz72]

Eversince my family and I moved just a year ago, I cant help but notice my closet starting to pile up with Amiga parts. Mostly old and broken A1200 40, 80, 120MB HDD, floppy drives and floppy drive parts which are unsuable any more, because I always tear the head off and place it to the defective drive, and keybaords of my A500 and A1200, a box full(used to be 3 boxes) of floppy diskettes from the old Commodore factory, a friend of mine took those and brought it to me for careful inspection(mostly burn-in progs for newly built A1200), my old printer(EPSON 800,still working but Ribbon all dried up) and 2 dead A1200 motherboards(NTSC and PAL). Used to have magazine of Amazing Amiga but I sold all of it to dealer from a province who keeps C=64 parts, for a replacement floppy drive(HD). The harddisk, disks and floppy drive parts were sold for scrap, but I don't know if I could get these old motherboards to work again?
Do you have any similar situation? What would you do??? :-?
BTW: The NTSC was burn to a crisp(I accidentally crossed the power supply +5 and +12 by mistake :-( ) and the PAL just blacked out, no display, no.. nothing!
Good day to all Amigans!! :-D

[Vincent]

Currently in a wardrobe I have:

3x A500 (one fine in original Commodore box, one with broken floppy, last with crap keyboard)
A500+ (now missing it's battery :-) in original box)
A1200 case and keyboard (1200 is in a tower now)
HP Scanner (possibly knackered, but can't check it on USB yet)
PCI soundcard (to be used when/if I get a mediator)
VooDoo 3Dfx (see above ;-) )
Telesound sound card (think it works, but don't have any drivers that work)
AMD K6 333mHz motherboard and desktop case (onboard sound card is screwed)
Star Micronics LC-200 printer (works but no ink)
3x Spectrum +2's (one +2a and 2 +2b's - all work)
2x MegaDrives (both working, one in original Sonic box)
About 5 HDDs from 210Mb to 30Gb
Loads of spare simms (from 4meg to 32meg), cables(TV, serial, printer HD, floppy etc), psu's (PC and Miggy), 4speed CD-rom, 500+ floppy disks (mainly back-ups and games :-) ), PC mice...

And god knows what else.  Most of the stuff works ok, but I suppose a fair bit could be chucked.... when I can be bothered ;-)

[Cyberus]

I can't be arsed to list everything, but suffice to say I have a cupboard full of stuff for which I had intentions at one stage, but I ought to be a realist and bin it all or sell it all.....

[xeron]

gizz72 wrote:
factory, a friend of mine took those and brought it to me for careful inspection(mostly burn-in progs for newly built A1200),

Any chance you could ADF or DMS one of these and put it online? From a historic point of view, I'd be very interested to see the programs Commodore used for burn-in testing. Also, anything similar from the Commodore factory would be very interesting to me.

[darksun9210]

erm, CD32, power brick of CD32, couple of SCSI cdroms, couple of DDS2 DAT drives, stacks of disks, couple of 2.5" drives. and thats about it.

got about 2000 disks in store since moving house. not sure what state they are going to be in after a year boxed up and plastic wrapped in a wharehouse.... oh yeah and amiga format magazines issue 6 to last.... everything else has either been sold or donated to good homes. (never scrapped. local colllege does IT courses and part of the sylibus its dismantling and re-assembly of a PC, so old drives, ram, mainboards, cases, CPU's, and cards went there.)

gave them two silicon graphics 20" flat screen monitors i couldn't use... stupid stupid stupid!

[Linchpin]

Miggys : a500+ (with no battery or FDD), a500 (working) a500+ 2mb ram expansion, a completly knackered a2k, a1200 case (is in tower) about 4 AT PSU's, tv modulator, damm heapsa PC mobos and PCI cards...

[PMC]

Mine was recently cleared post moving flat.  Beforehand my spare room contained:

1 x Amiga 1200 in Power tower with Mediator, Voodoo 3, SB 128 etc

1 x Amiga 1200 in desktop case with 370 Mb 2.5" HDD

1 x A500, Wb 1.2

1 x A500 in original Commodore box, Wb 1.3

3 large boxes of games/demos/apps

Not to mention several A520's, a Mastersound sampler, CM8833 Mk II, original Amiga mice x 2, selection of knackered joysticks, spare AT PSU, S3 ViRGE PCI card, assorted cables, etc

Now my collection has been trimmed to my towered A1200, my soon to be delivered Athlon 2500/Gigabyte PC and or course my trusty PS2.

If anyone lives in the Colchester area and wants (Free of charge) either of my A500s or my desktop A1200 then do let me know, as I need the space for my Mountain Bike!

[gizz72]

About the Disk? Sorry, most of them were water damaged. By the time I knew how to use ADF, they were long gone. I manage to save just 1 or 2, but most were track damage beyond repair. I won't even DARE to use it in my working drives(not by a long shot), so that's why I got those broken down floppy drives in the first place.  If I have time to scan it i'll upload it.
Good day to all Amigans  : )

[AmigaFreak]

I've had this problem, but with PC parts, all over the house!!  :-(

[Morley]

oh, I've got my old A500 stuffed in some closet...along with loads of 486/early pentium boards, VESA graphic and I/O boards, ISA cards, and lots of old HDD's.
Maybe I'll put up an Novell Netware 3.12 server if I get around to do it someday, just for old times sake 8-) just hope I still have the drivers necessary for my ethernet cards...

[gizz72]

Hi again Xeron, I found 7 old disks. I uploaded the jpeg under Hardware.

Good day to all Amigans! : D

[chris]

An A500, at least one HD and CD-RW drive that doesn't work, another CD-ROM drive with a burnt out power supply, thousands of cables and connectors, some Kickstart 3.0 ROMs, some SIMMs, keyboards, mice, and probably some other stuff that doesn't work.  Unfortunately nowhere near what is required to even think about building another computer out of the spare parts  :-(

Chris

[gizz72]

I misspelled the following from my picture post. Xenex is Xeron and ASF is to ADF. Sorry about that.
Good day to all Amigans!  :-D