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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Console Sales & Trades => Topic started by: Arkhan on February 25, 2012, 03:36:26 AM

Title: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: Arkhan on February 25, 2012, 03:36:26 AM
20 dorra and it's yours.

It has no keyboard.

It came from the Cleveland Institute of Art, which is still slapped on it, so I assume it works.

if not, it's not like it'd be hard to fix.  Finding a keyboard is the tricky part.

I forgot i had this
Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: esteban on February 25, 2012, 03:55:35 AM
20 dorra and it's yours.

It has no keyboard.

It came from the Cleveland Institute of Art, which is still slapped on it, so I assume it works.

if not, it's not like it'd be hard to fix.  Finding a keyboard is the tricky part.

I forgot i had this


You know what they say about "untested" when used by sellers... (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcds.png)

Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: Arkhan on February 25, 2012, 04:37:30 AM
that it's got STDs? 

It's untested because I don't have a keyboard, lol. 
Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: incrediblehark on February 25, 2012, 11:50:25 AM
maybe interested!
Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: esteban on February 25, 2012, 01:06:30 PM
that it's got STDs? 

It's untested because I don't have a keyboard, lol. 


That's what they all say! (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcds.png)

I'm teasing you, but seriously, I don't know where that Amiga has been...

Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: Arkhan on February 26, 2012, 10:22:12 AM
maybe interested!

Good.  I'd like it out on the cheap since I cant confirm its working status.

If I can't move it by June at the CCAG... it's going in the trash.
Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: nat on February 27, 2012, 02:19:49 PM
The last thing I need is another hobby computer on top of all my old Apples, but this is tempting....
Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: soop on February 27, 2012, 10:57:25 PM
Oh, I'd love this if shipping wasn't $541574186841.

You should open it up in case it's one of the signed ones.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000#Design
Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: Arkhan on February 28, 2012, 08:02:23 AM
The last thing I need is another hobby computer on top of all my old Apples, but this is tempting....

what kind of oldappleshit do you have?!

I got an Apple IIc  Plus waiting to be f*cked with.

I've got a nullmodem cable on the way so I can get ProDOS going.  Kinda worthless without that... and no disks to pop in it, lol
Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: nat on February 28, 2012, 10:57:13 AM
The last thing I need is another hobby computer on top of all my old Apples, but this is tempting....

what kind of oldappleshit do you have?!

I got an Apple IIc  Plus waiting to be f*cked with.

I've got a nullmodem cable on the way so I can get ProDOS going.  Kinda worthless without that... and no disks to pop in it, lol

I have:
- an Apple //c Plus (with the matching 13" AppleColor monitor, not the 9" monochrome green screen)
- an 8Mhz Apple //gs (ROM3) with 5.25MB RAM, 100MB SCSI hard drive (really need to upgrade this to something larger)
- tons of Apple // & //gs software and misc. hardware
- an all-original Macintosh 512k
- a Macintosh Plus (4MB RAM, 100MB external SCSI hard drive) we bought new in 1987 (still have the original sticker sheet!)
- a Macintosh SE FDHD (with 16Mhz CPU upgrade, 4MB RAM, original 40MB hard drive)
- a Macintosh IIsi (2gig HD, Radius 24-bit video card, running System 6.0.8-- super fast, in storage)
- a Macintosh IIfx (dual internal HDs, a 2 gig and a 1 gig, bought new by someone else in 1990 for a whopping $11,000)
- a Macintosh SE/30 (currently out of commission, in storage- leaky caps)
- a Macintosh Classic II (currently out of commission, in storage- leaky caps)
- a Macintosh Centris 650 with a PowerPC 601 CPU (not the Motorola 68040!, currently in storage- blown power supply)
- a pile (in storage) of about 12 miscellaneous models of the vintage all-in-one black & white Macs in varying states of disrepair

That's about it for the pre-1995 stuff.

About 12 years ago, give or take, I was the lucky (or unlucky, depending on your point of view) recipient of a flatbed truckload of obsolete vintage Apple/Mac computer equipment being dumped by the University of Washington. It was free, I just had to unload the truck. I ended up with (at the time) around 50 complete computer systems from Mac 512ks and //gs's all the way up to Quadra 800s.

Over the years I've restored and sold off most of the sale-worthy machines. I got as much as $90 back in 2004 or 2005 for a fully restored SE/30! Not a bad return on something that was free. I kept the best specimen of each model for my personal collection, and now I have that pile of raped and pillaged carcasses sitting in my garage. I could probably build two or three more working units out of the parts but I just don't have the time.

I'm especially partial to the Mac Plus, since it's the very same unit I played MacGolf and Tetris on as a kid back in the late 80s. Around 2003 the power supply/vertical sweep board melted but I was able to replace it with a board from an otherwise dead unit from my big haul, so no harm done. The same year the original 40MB hard drive also died (seized up) so I replaced it with a salvaged 100MB drive.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to play with this stuff like I used to. It's sad, because I really enjoy a lot of the old games and programs for these machines. When I do, it's mostly on the //c Plus and //gs these days. If you're looking for software, as I indicated, I have a large library. PM me if you're looking for something, maybe I can help you out.
Title: Re: Untested Amiga 1000 with no Keyboard
Post by: Arkhan on February 28, 2012, 12:24:42 PM
f*ck yes.

I too have the Apple IIc Plus w/ Monitor, pilfered from OldMans basement.  WITH the external disk drive.

PM sent.

well, about to be sent.

loads of free old computer shit on trucks is awesome.  I used to do that with C64s