Post here everytime you get something new!

I've had little luck with the cards I had printed to let people know I collect computers, but when I do get a random call it's proven to be something major. My best acquisition to date is a new-in-box IBM 5150. Today I may have matched that.

I received a call from a woman who said she had one of my cards and asked if I'd be interested in a PET computer. I told her that I would and asked the model. She told me it is a Super PET and I was very happy to hear that. I'd very much like to add a PET 2001 from 1977 to my collection, but any Commodore PET is good.

In the end I picked up the machine, the drive and remarkably also the drive cable. The computer works and now it's time to clean it up and test the drive out.

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Came across these at work, what a score! :thumbsup:

Already popped one in my A1200, took my 16gb Image, burned it to the CF, used Thomas' fixhddsize tool to correct the RDB, added a 40gb partition, instant win :D

Time to copy across my MOD collection :ninja:

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Thrift shop time again, also a few things from EB Games and some clearanced Funkos from Sunrise Records (clearance priced + additional 25% of if you bought 3 or more), also a boxed Timex Sinclair 1000 + accessories procured for me by RuneRider.

Games/Gamebooks
Axis & Allies (MB, 1984)
Star Wars Monopoly - Classic Trilogy Edition (Parker, 1997)
Bob Ross - The Art of Chill (Forrest-Pruzan, 2017) (new/sealed)
Blitz Bowl (GW, 2018 ) (new/sealed)
Last Night on Earth - The Zombie Game (Flying Frog, 2007)
Zombies!!! (Twilight Creations, 2006)
Humans!!! (Twilight Creations, 2008 )
Samurai Sword (dV Giochi, 2012)
Sushi GO! (Gamewright, 2015)
Cube Fusion (House of Games, 1968 )
Qubic (Parker, 1972)
Word Yahtzee (E.S. Lowe, 1982)
Won Over (Parker, 1983)
Mini Play 4x4 (Koninklijke Hausemann, 1983)

Warhammer 40K - Chaos Space Marines Codex (HC) (GW, 2012)
Warhammer 40K - Blood Angels Codex (HC) (GW, 2014)
Pick Your Path #2 - WWE Night of Champions (Grosset & Dunlap, 2011)
Which Way - Secret Door #4 - The Secret Life of Toys (Archway, 1983)
Find Your Fate Fantasy RH#3 - The Thundercats and the Ghost Warriors (Random House, 1985)
Pick Your Path #1 - Club Penguin - Stowaway! Adventures at Sea (Grosset & Dunlap, 2008 )
Pick Your Path #2 - Club Penguin - The Inventor's Apprentice (Grosset & Dunlap, 2009)

Books
Star Wars - The Original Trilogy Stories (HC) (Lucasfilm, 2015)
The Star Wars Question and Answer Book about Space (Scholastic, 1979)
The Hobbit (TPB) (Ballantine, 1990)
H.R. Pufnstuf (Gold Key, 1971)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (HC) (Golden, 1971)
Walt Disney's Song of the South (Grosset & Dunlap, 1980)
The Flintstones - The Computer that Went Bananas (Hanna-Barbera, 1974)
Ancient Civilizations (Piper, 1982)
Star Trek - Deep Space Nine - The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (Pocket Books, 1995)

BluRays/LaserDisc/CDs/LPs/Cassette
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 (CBS, 2009)
Stargate Atlantis Seasons 1 & 2 (MGM, 2004/2005)
Stargate Atlantis Seasons 3 & 4 (MGM, 2006/2007)
Stargate Atlantic Season 5 (MGM, 2008 )
Cowboys & Aliens (Universal, 2011)
Once Upon a Time in America (Fox, 2015)
Ernest Goes to Camp / Ernest Goes to Jail (Mill Creek, 2011)

War of the Worlds LaserDisc (Paramount, 1993) (~1953) (new/sealed)

Loggins & Messina - The Best of Friends (CBS, 1976) (~1972)
Bobby Brown - Dance!...Ya Know It! (MCA, 1989)
Jody Watley - You Wanna Dance With Me? (MCA, 1989)
Night and Day - The Cole Porter Songbook (PolyGram, 1990)
Nelson - After the Rain (Geffen, 1990)
Spirit of the West - Faithlift (WEA, 1993)
Salt 'N' Pepa - Very Necessary (Next, 1993)
Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang (Interscope, 1997)
Radiohead - Amnesiac (EMI, 2001)

Jackson Browne - Running on Empty (Elektra, 1977)
Eagles - The Long Run (Asylum, 1979)
Kenny Loggins - Keep the Fire (CBS, 1979)
Prism - Armageddon (Ariola, 1979)
Eddie Murphy - Comedian (CBS, 1983)
Yes - Leave It 12" Single (Atlantic, 1983)
The Box - The Box (Alert, 1984)

George Carlin - Class Clown (WEA, 1972)

Toys
Funko Pop! - Max Rockatansky (Funko, 2017) (new/sealed)
Funko Pop! - Immortan Joe (Funko, 2017) (new/sealed)
Funko Pop! - Deckard (Funko, 2017) (new/sealed)
Speak & Spell (Texas Instruments, 1978 ) (non-functional, but in good cosmetic shape)

Computer Stuff
Monopoly Deluxe (Virgin Games, 1992) (3.5" FD, 286+, 640K RAM, DOS)
Hitachi 120GB 2.5" SATA HDD
Sony 48x 80min CD-R 10-pack (new/sealed)
TDK 16x DVD+R 50-pack (unused)
Fellowes Adhesive 3.5" Diskette Holders 5-pack (unused)

Timex Sinclair 1000
Timex Sinclair 1000 (boxed)
TS 1016 16K RAM expansion (boxed)
Panasonic RQ-3095 Cassette Recorder
Grimm's Fairy Tales 16K cassette
The Cube Game 16K cassette
The Loan/Mortgage Amortizer 16K cassette

(7.0)

I wanted to show my nearly brand new C64. List of parts here with more photos: https://amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=967
This was not a cheap build, but the keyboard is easily the best C64 I’ve ever typed on. The only things that aren’t new are the keycaps and a handful of original chips. New case (that I snagged for $24 on Ebay a couple of years ago), new Mechboard keyboard, MK2 Reloaded.
I went with Gatreon yellow microswitches on the Mechboard as they are the closest in feel to the original.
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So I wound up having to go into the clinic/hospital for a couple days running to get treated for a (probable) staph infection in my leg, on Monday I was up in the NE of Calgary where one of the hospitals is (and conveniently right across the street to the mall where Sunrise Records/EB Games and a few other stores I go to are in, and also in the are of some of the Thrift Shops I like to go to) and when I was done, wandered around for a while, Sunrise still had a ton of Funkos, and the clearance had been changed to get 50% more off if you bought 3 (from 25%) so I grabbed a few more.... the Dollar Store also had a few...

Toys/Toys/Toys
Funko Pop! Star Wars: Lando Calrissian (Solo) (Funko, 2018 ) (new/sealed)
Funko Pop! Movies Blade Runner 2049: Wallace (Funko, 2017) (new/sealed)
Funko Pop! Movies Blade Runner 2049: Luv (Funko, 2017) (new/sealed)

Funko Rock Candy - Batgirl (Funko, unk) (new)
Funko Rock Candy - Supergirl (funko, unk) (new)
Funko Rock Candy - Harley Quinn (Funko, unk) (new)

Hot Wheels - TV Series Batmobile (silver/grey) (Mattel, 2017) (new/sealed)

Star Wars Micro Force Series 5 figurines (Dollarama got in a bunch of blind bags of these, 2 figs per bag) (all - Hasbro, 2018 (new))
3x Han Solo
3x Captain Phasma
3x R2D2 'hologram'
2x BB-8
1x Enfys Nest
1x Maz Kanata
4x Captain Rex
3x Elite Praetorian Guard
3x Shore Trooper
3x Magnaguard
2x Super Battle Droid

+2 Ghostbusters EctoMinis Blind Bags (Mattel, 2016)
1x Erin Gilbert
1x Jillian Holtzmann

Windsurfer Smurf (unk, 1980) (missing wind surfer)
Movie Brainy Smurf (Schleich, 2010)
Movie Gutsy Smurf (Schleich, 2010)

Nintendo Gameboy 17-in-1 Cart

CDs
Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In (Capitol, 1986)
George Michael - Faith (CBS, 1987)

Stuff ordered off AliExpress
4x CF to IDE Adapters
1x 512MB CF Card

set of metal dice

Hi. So, I have not seen an Amiga in the wild for ages... years maybe. So despite having probably around ten A500's I couldn't resist buying this A500 for super cheap untested. Came with a Commodore RGB cable and an A501. Missing trap door cover.

Anyway took it home and before testing I took it apart, washed the filthy case under a hose pipe, cleaned the motherboard, cleaned the filthy floppy drive and also the keyboard. I took apart the A501 and removed the battery which had only just started leaking slightly... Thank you GP battery for not being a VARTA. Cleaned it up and put it back together.

Testing time.... Hooked it up, switched on and I see the lovely Kickstart 1.3 screen and the familiar floppy drive click. Insert a few disks but it had problems, so I used a disk cleaner and after that it boots everything fine. Picture, sound, controls, everything works fine as does the ram expansion. The keyboard has issues and I couldn't solve it but I had a spare which I used.

Anyway enough babble, here are some pics :)

You're probably going to be asked to remove the price you paid. Forum rules and all that.

Bryce.

Bugger, I've not been on for so long I need refreshing some of the rules. ... Fixed

Cheers :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Bryce

You're probably going to be asked to remove the price you paid. Forum rules and all that.

Bryce.

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And now, the moment you've all been dreading.... another thrift shop run. plus 2 Blood Bowl teams from GW (ordered Tues. night, shipped Wed. morning, first thing... delivered Thurs. afternoon... UPS Saver, from Tn....whaaaat?!?)

Games/Gamesbook
Star Wars Episode I - Battle for Naboo 3D Action Game (Hasbro, 1999)
Star Wars Monopoly - Limited Collector's Edition (Parker, 1996)
Star Wars Trivial Pursuit Classic Trilogy Collector's Edition (Parker, 1997)
Scrabble - Beatles Edition (USAopoly, 2012)
1313 Dead End Drive (Hasbro, 2002)
Quoridor (Gigamic, 1997)

Decide Your Destiny - Star Wars: The Clone Wars #3 - Tethan Battle Adventure (Grosset & Dunlap, 2010)

BluRays/LPs/CDs
Marvel's Avengers BluRay/DVD (Marvel, 2012)
Deadpool BluRay/DVD (20thCenturyFox, 2016)
Captain America - Civil War (Marvel, 2016)
Man of Steel BluRay/DVD (Warner, 2013)
Star Trek (Paramount, 2009) (new/sealed)
The King's Speech (Alliance, 2010)
You Only Live Twice (UA, 1967)(MGM, 2012)
Tropic Thunder (DreamWorks, 2008 ) (new/sealed)
X-Men: The Future Past Collection (20thCentFox, 2011) (new/sealed) (X-Men / X-Men United / Days of Future Past / The Last Stand / First Class)
Alice in Wonderland BluRay/DVD (Disney, 2010)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Columbia, 1992)(Sony, 2007) (new/sealed)
Mystic Pizza (Orion, 1988 )(MGM, 2010)
Revenge of the Nerds (20thCentFox, 1984/2003)
Skyfall (UA, 2012)
Spectre (MGM, 2015)
Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl (Disney, 2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest (Disney, 2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (Disney, 2007)

Olivia Newton-John - Soul Kiss (MCA, 1985)
Bill Cosby - Wonderfulness (Warner, 1966)
Various - Blast Off (K-Tel, 1983)
Various - Hit Express (K-Tel, 1982)

The Tragically Hip - We Are the Same (Universal, 2009)
Weird Al Yankovic - Even Worse (Volcano, 1988 )
Weird Al Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynnwood (Volcano, 2006)
Rowan Atkinson Live in Belfast (BMG, 1980)(BMG, 1996)

PC/Video Games
Sid Meier's Pirates! (Take Two, 2005) (sealed)
The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion GOTY Edition (Bethesda, 2007)
Bioshock for PS3 (Take Two, 2007)
Lego Batman: The Video Game for NDS (Nintendo, 2006)
ClubHouse Games for NDS (Nintendo, 2008 )

Books
Metal Mickey Annual 1985 (HC) (IPC, 1984)
Tintin in Tibet (Egmont, 2008 ) (~1962)
Wheeled Warriors - Roots of Fear (HC) (Mattel, 1985) (aka Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors)
Cabbage Patch Kids - The Just-Right Family (HC) (Parker, 1984)
Cabbage Patch Kids - Making Friends (HC) (Parker, 1984)

Misc
Mega Bloks - World of Warcraft - Goblin Trike (MEGA, 2012) (sealed)
Office Depot branded 2HD 3.5" 1.44MB Multi-Colored FDs (30-pack) (new/sealed)

Blood Bowl
The Champions of Death - Shambling Undead BB Team (GW, 2018 ) (new/sealed)
Nurgle's Rotters - Nurgle BB Team (GW, 2018 ) (new/sealed)

a few more bits from today, Value Village getting a shipload of BluRays recently, and lowered their price on them a couple of months ago...

(7.0)

Well, it's a bit of a stretch to claim that I "got" this today, as I've had the parts and the project going on for a little while, but I did finish it yesterday. I present for your viewing entertainment, the latest addition to the Franken500... A plipbox.

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Probably not the best arrangement of parts, but I was pretty pleased with my re-purposing of an old PC serial port header... soldering all those little connectors on the back of it was fun. It was even more fun when I realised that having done all 25 pins, the project actually only needed 13 of them. Ah well, you live and learn. Well, having got all the MiamiDX faff out of the way, my little 500 was finally online after thirty-some-odd years. It didn't much like it. But it worked. Certianly things like NFS and FTP worked more than sufficiently. Probably not going to be watching any youtube videos on it though. Came here, that mostly worked good and Aminet worked great. All in all, great success. The only problem is that I don't like having all those short-circuitable conductive bits hanging around. After not finding anything remotely appropriate in my spares box, I came up with the ugliest solution I think I ever had (and for anyone who's seen the Franken500, that's quite a a thing!) So without further ado, the finished article:

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Heat-shrink-tubing boys. Gross. But effective. I've set aside the cash for a Build it yourself 3d printer, which I will pick up at the end of the month, all being well. Then I can make a case for this atrocity and also for all the other crap hanging out of Franken500, which now comprises....

3.1 socketed ROMS
512k Trapdoor expansion (replaced battery with coin cell)
ACA500 (not the plus) with 2x 4GB CF allowing 1MB Chip and 1.8MB fast and a marginally better 68k cpu
ACA 1221EC Moving us up to 12 whole MB RAM and a nice overclocked 020 which steps up to 48mhz as required
Gotek floppy emulator, kinda redundant but I like being able to throw ADFs at it
Now the Plipbox

So yeah, it's getting pretty big and dangly. It's over 2 feet wide on the desk with all the expansions hanging out. Oh yeah, I also have on order a kit for a PS2 mouse adaptor, just to hang more ridiculous crap off it. What an amazing machine for its age. I just wish I had that AGA chipset in my life, ya know. Still, fun is being had.