Post here everytime you get something new!

OK, you guys are really gonna start getting annoyed with me (if you aren't already :lol:)

Had to go way down south today to buy some shoes which were more appropriate to our winter weather here (it's started snowing this week and apparently may get much worse this year), and of course very near where I had to go there are 2 other thrift stores (with a dollar store very conveniently next to each...)

few more odds and ends, books and CDs (I've decided to increase my CD and LP collections, when I can find them in decent shape and for cheap as I have the last couple of trips) and also picked up an electric guitar for cheap...I have been helping a guy in my building with a computer he got given by some seniors organization (Intel Core Duo 3Ghz 4 GB RAM - Vista Business Edition (licensed), actually pretty good for a freebie) and he wants to teach me how to play in return, so I have been keeping my eyes open for a cheap one just to learn on (and it wont matter if I ultimately have zero affinity for it...)


Books

CYOA #13 - The Abominable Snowman (Bantam, 1982)
CYOA #18 - Underground Kingdom (Bantam, 1983)
CYOA #27 - The Horror of High Ridge (Bantam, 1983)
Which Way Books #10 - Invasion of the Black Slime and Other Tales of Horror (Archway, 1983)
Which Way Books #14 - Poltergeists, Ghosts and Psychic Encounters (Archway, 1984)

CDs

Boney M - Gold - 20 Super Hits (Far Music, 1992)
Midnight Oil - Earth and Sun and Moon (Columbia, 1993)
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (CBS, 1990)
R.E.M. - Document (IRS, 1987)
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (Warner, 1996) - oddly enough the 4 REM CDs I already did have are the 4 in between these 2 albums...
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (BMG, 1997)
Rush - Retrospective / 1974-1980 (Anthem, 1997)

Other Stuff

Pop! Television Battlestar Galactica Capt. Apollo (Funko, 2015) "not a toy" :lol:
The Karate Kid - Daniel Larusso (ReAction, 2015) (with special accessories - Paint Brush and Paint Can :p) also "not a toy" :roll:

Squier by Fender "Stratocaster" Bullet Series (for whatever that's all worth - "made in China") Electric Guitar (needs cleaning up and re-stringing, and I'll need to find an amp of some description)

have I successfully managed to hijack this entire thread? :ninja:
It's all somewhat therapeutic for me since normally I would go weeks without leaving the house (especially when I was younger and my anxiety issues were...not greater...but had more of an impact on me...:oops:)

got myself a DivMMC Enjoy,,, had it for about a week and it's still in it's box :( sigh!!!!!!! I so envy you chaps with a "Retro" room......

@SaviorX Well you are certainly dominating this thread hehe ;) But keep it coming, its fun to read :)

Nothing much new in here; Empty Amiga 2000 case in nice shape to hold me fixed rev 6.2 board, the first goodies from the Amiga 1200 case project, Magic Mike 2002 robot and a Unicom 102 Calculator (the last I bought because it looks so very damn cool :) )

oh yeah...that reminds me...one of the biggest reasons why I have been getting out more in the last month or 2 and getting loads more of this 'crap' :P

after waiting for *7* years for Rent subsidy (our building was partially subsidized by the federal government of Canada, but only to the tune of 15% ie: 24 of the 163 suites in our building, and it's a terrible thing to say...but you are basically waiting for someone to die and relinquish their subsidy...) the building was put into receivership in 2014 and subsequently sold to a low income/non-profit housing company (Calgary Housing Company) this year (July 1 they took over) which opened up more subsidies through them...

anyways...long story short....my rent went from $930/mo for this small one bedroom place - to $285 as from Sept 1
(oops, does that qualify as price driving 1br apartment rents? GOOD, I hope so :P )

I guess that qualifies as 'getting something new' too :P

now...just to get out of the CC debt I have built up over the previous 7 years waiting...:thumbsdown:

need.help.must.be.stopped


Naval War card game (Avalon Hill, 1983)
Asterix Abenteuer-Quartett (Adventure Quartet) card game (ASS, 1989) (German)

Star Wars d6 - Rebel Alliance Sourcebook (HC) (WEG, 1994)
Star Trek tRPG - Star Fleet Intelligence Manual (FASA, 1987)
Indiana Jones and the Rising Sun supplement (WEG, 1994)

Howling MAD #23 (Warner Books, 1974)


all I can say is this it's a good thing we get paid next week...

I think 'thrifting' is becoming a bit of an addiction...


XTC Vinyl Albums

XTC - English Settlement Deluxe Set (Ape House, 2016) (2x 200g LPs, 16 page book, CD) (new)
XTC - Skylarking Deluxe Set (Ape House, 2016) (2x 200g LPs (@45RPM), 16 page book, CD, "corrected polarity") (new)
(ordered these from Ape House/Burning Shed in the UK)

Games/Toys

AD&D Monster Manual 3e (HC) (WotC, 2000)
Find Your Fate #6 - Indiana Jones and the Legion of Death (Ballantine, 1984)
Mille Bornes - Collector's Edition (Winning Moves, 1999) (new/sealed)

Anakin's Jedi Starfighter (LFL, 2004)
Battlecat/Cringer (Mattel, 1983) (sans armor/saddle)
'Cushion' Smurf (Bully, 1975)


Books/Comics

Masters of the Universe - The Sword of Skeletor (Golden, 1983)
The Smurfs #2 - The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (Papercutz, 2010)
The Smurfs #7 - The Astro Smurf (Papercutz, 2011)
Star Wars - Dark Times #5 (Dark Horse, 2007)
5x issues of "The Dandy" from 1996


Media/other

David Bowie - Space Oddity (Digitally Remastered) (EMI, 1999)
David Bowie - Let's Dance (Digitally Remastered) (EMI, 1999)
Mike + The Mechanics - Living Years (Atlantic, 1988 )

PSOne - Nuclear Strike (EA, 1997)
PSOne - Syphon Filter (989 Studios, 1999)

DD-80L 3.5" Disk storage box

Not the normal sort of post within this thread but I thought I'd post it anyway.

A got a new sister-in-law yesterday :D

Attachment 114132

I think I need some help too...

In the last 2 weeks, I bought 2 Tandys. A Tandy Color Computer 2 (26-3127A) and a pretty rare (Boxed) Tandy TRS-80 MC-10 with 16K memory expansion. Maybe not special for most Americans, but this is a PAL MC10 designed for either English, Dutch, French or German market since it has all 4 languages on the box. Quite interesting.

You may wonder what the problem is when buying 2 computers right?

Well, this is the Tandy hardware part of my collection:
https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5671/3...e66aeca9_b.jpg

Only the Color Computers look like this (without the MC10):
https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5614/3...8290815b_b.jpg

So yeh. I'm currently the owner of the largest collection Tandys in the Netherlands :o (and still missing the Color Computer 1, the business TRS80 (Model 2, 12, 16, 16B, 6000 etc) and most of the IBM-compatibles like the 1000s and 4000s)

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Originally Posted by WHiZZi

I think I need some help too...

In the last 2 weeks, I bought 2 Tandys. A Tandy Color Computer 2 (26-3127A) and a pretty rare (Boxed) Tandy TRS-80 MC-10 with 16K memory expansion. Maybe not special for most Americans, but this is a PAL MC10 designed for either English, Dutch, French or German market since it has all 4 languages on the box. Quite interesting.

You may wonder what the problem is when buying 2 computers right?

Well, this is the Tandy hardware part of my collection:
https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5671/3...e66aeca9_b.jpg

Only the Color Computers look like this (without the MC10):
https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5614/3...8290815b_b.jpg

So yeh. I'm currently the owner of the largest collection Tandys in the Netherlands :o (and still missing the Color Computer 1, the business TRS80 (Model 2, 12, 16, 16B, 6000 etc) and most of the IBM-compatibles like the 1000s and 4000s)

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Nice Tandy collection, I see you have a 1000 ex. Great little machine once you add the ram expansion card as you get 16 color Tandy / PC Jr video. Had 3 voice digital sound too.

We got one for Xmas '87, great memories!

I think it's actually expanded to the max, but the power supply seemed to have died and I haven't got time to fix it (yet)