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[RuneRider]

While old computers are my main focus, I also enjoy photographic equipment. I just couldn't resist picking up six cases of cameras and equipment from an estate sale this week-end.

There are 2x medium format cameras and 2x SLRs with many lenses and other things. This image is about half of the haul.
The Zeiss lenses are worth a small fortune.

[SaviorX]

Big thrift shop runs the last 2 days...

Board/Card Games

Pandemic Contagion (Z-Man, 2014)
Enchanted Forest (Ravensburger, 1994)
Interplay (Shoptaugh, 1983) ("unused")
Knave of Hearts (TSR, 1986) ("unused")
Say Anything: Family Edition (NorthStar, 2014) ("unused")
Devil's Triangle (Playtoy, 1986 )
Young Jedi: Menace of Darth Maul - Starter Deck (Decipher, 1999)

RPGs/Gamesbooks

Star Wars D6 - Galaxy Guide 2 - Yavin and Bespin (WEG, 1995)
Star Wars D6 - Galaxy Guide 4 - Alien Races (WEG, 1994)
Star Wars D6 - Cracken's Rebel Field Guide (WEG, 1991)
Star Wars D6 - Riders of the Maelstrom (WEG, 1989)
Star Wars D6 - Starfall (x2) (WEG, 1989)

Robotech the Role Playing Game: Book One: Macross (x2) (Palladium, 1986/1988 (4th))
Robotech RPG: Book Two: RDF Manual (Palladium, 1987)
Robotech RPG: Book Four: Southern Cross (Palladium, 1987)
Robotech RPG: Book Five: Invid Invasion (Palladium, 1988 )
Robotech RPG Adventures: Ghost Ship (Palladium, 1988 )

Traveller: The Classic Books 0-8 (Far Future, 2000)
Killer: the Live Roleplaying Game (SJG, 1985)
Game Design Volume 1: Theory and Practice (SJG, 1981)
Robin Hood: The Role Playing Campaign (I.C.E., 1987) (for Rolemaster, MERP & Fantasy Hero)
Terror Australis: Cthulhu Down Under (Chaosium, 1987) (for Call of Cthulhu)
CORPS: The Global Conspiracy Role-Playing Game (BTRC, 1990)
Hidden Invasion (Nightshift, 1995)

FF#4 - Starship Traveller (Puffin, 1984)
FF#5 - City of Thieves (x2) (Puffin, 1983/1985)
FF#39 - Fangs of Fury (Puffin, 1989)
CYOA #53 - The Case of the Silk King (Bantam, 1986 )
CYOA #57 - The Antimatter Formula (Bantam, 1986 )
CYOA #86 - Knights of the Round Table (Bantam, 1988 )
Choose Your Own Horrible History - Killing Hitler with Praise and Fire (Hutchins, 2013) (CYOA parody)

Magazines/Books

The Space Gamer #61 - March 1983
Stardate #8 - Oct. 1985
Stardate #11 - Apr. 1986
Different Worlds #30 - Sept. 1983
Different Worlds #35 - Jul/Aug 1984
Gryphon #4 - Winter 1981
Heavy Metal Magazine - May 2006
Starlog #262 - May 1999
Adventures Unlimited #3 - Fall 1995
Adventures Unlimited #5 - Spring 1996

Asterix and Son (Hodder & Stoughton, 1983)
The Complete MAD: Don Martin (Warner, 1974)
Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (HC) (Star Wars Corp., 1976)
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (HC) (Reader's Digest, 2004)
Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Books (HC) (Reader's Digest, 2005)
Robot World (Piper, 1984)
How And Why Wonder Book of: Dinosaurs (Wonder Books, 1981)
How And Why Wonder Book of: Our Earth (Wonder Books, 1960)
How And Why Wonder Book of: Prehistoric Mammals (Wonder Books, 1962)

Toys

Micro Machines Star Wars - The Force Awakens - R2D2 Playset (Hasbro, 2015) (new)
Micro Machines Star Wars - The Force Awakens - First Order Stormtrooper Playset (Hasbro, 2015) (new)
Courting Smurf (Bully, 1973)
Injured Smurf (Bully, 1978 )
Archer Smurf (Bully, 1979)

Vinyl/CD

Juice Newton - Angel of the Morning/Headin' for a Heartache 7" Single (Capitol, 1981) (Picture Sleeve)
Lionel Richie - You Are/You Mean More to Me 7" Single (Quality, 1983) (Picture Sleeve)

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (Atlantic, 1973)
Roxy Music - Siren - Special Edition (Virgin, 1975)
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Privates Eyes (RCA, 1981)
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (Priority, 1988 )
U2 - War (Island, 1983)
Van Halen - Diver Down Remastered (Warner, 1982)
Yes - 90125 (Atlantic, 1983)
54-40 - Trusted By Millions (Sony, 1996)
Ace of Base - Cruel Summer (Arista, 1998 )
Alias - Alias (Capitol, 1990)
Beck! - Odelay (Geffen, 1996)
The Cure - Wish (Elektra, 1992)
Glass Tiger - Simple Mission (Capitol, 1990)
Green Day - Nimrod (Reprise, 1997)
Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah (Geffen, 1996)
The Tragically Hip - Road Apples (MCA, 1991)
The Who - Quadrophenia (MCA, 1996 )

Monty Python - Matching Tie & Handkerchief (Arista, 1975)
Monty Python - The Final Rip-off (Virgin, 1987)

Computer Bits

Staples 40 CD Case
Sentry Computer Headset (x2) (new/sealed)
Staples Photo Supreme Satin Paper 4x6 -100 sheets (x2) (new/sealed)
Fellowes 3.5" Disk Fan File (x2) (unused)

yes...way too much stuff (10 stores in 2 days...)

(10.0)

[SaviorX]

and a few of the other bits

[Roux]

When 17 boxes of Amiga Hardware and Software arrive







Started going through everything trying to sort but it will take more time to get through

Software and Manuals



More Software and Manuals



Nice fully working 1.2 A500 with C= Key and working 1942 Monitor



Amiga 2000 HD - not working (HDD Sounds very sick)



Revision 6. 2090 HDD, Card Golden Gate ISA Card, ISA Network Card??



A2000 Rear



CD32 with a fantastic condition 1942



SX32 MK1 this was not working, I just removed the battery and replaced a capacitor and 3 resistors and the CD32 boots





More to follow

The last of the Banana boxes



Amiga M1438S



Commodore 1960



THE MOTHERLOAD Complete with DKB Insider II All cleaned up very nicely!!













FINALLY I have an Amiga 1000 in my collection !


Some of the interesting items in the bunch , I wont spam too much more but some of these bits are worth a look



























Very happy to find a CD Rom drive for my A1200 and the Amiga Analyzer looks cool

[SkydivinGirl]

Are you sure they're not bananas? They say bananas.

:P

Heather

[Roux]

Are you sure they're not bananas? They say bananas.

:P

Heather

Ha! I wish I love bananas

[SaviorX]

Picked up this USB Zip 100 drive, came with 14 working discs (I already have 3x Parallel Zip100 drives + about 20 discs for my older systems, but this USB one will be better on the newer systems) for a decent price (pretty much what I would expect to have paid for 14 Zip100 discs, really)

I am also thinking about perhaps getting a SCSI version for the Mac Classic I got a while ago, which would make it easier to get stuff onto the Mac, and additional storage for it as well.

of course a larger SCSI HD and SD card solution for it would be good options also...

[sweetlilmre]

I think this thread should be renamed to "living vicariously through SaviorX" 😂

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[Sardine]

^^ and a tour of his castle thats needed for all this, i'm so jealous of the space.

[SaviorX]

well, I can't imagine anyone living vicariously through me, tbh...

as for my castle, well, I am in a roughly 590sq ft 1br apartment, though fortunate, I suppose... to have an in-suite storage room that is about the size of a small bedroom...about 7'x7' or so, but that also figures into the 590sq ft as well...and at this point, it is packed full...

I certainly do enjoy doing the thrift store runs and finding interesting stuff (though I do realize that for most people at least half of what I bring home is probably junk these days...who collects CDs any more...well, I guess I do because a: they are cheap now...and b: I never really had a decent collection when CDs were the thing...probably 20-25 CDs outside my XTC collection at best...and probably no one cares about things like the random books, but this is just the stuff I have always liked to collect, particularly classic literature in hardback)

I would love it if there were still more stuff that is more along the lines of what this site is about of course, retro computers and video game stuff...but that seems few and far between these days...I guess the last 'relevant' find was the Entex Arcade Defender handheld... (well and the Mac Classic, but that was a private sale, not a thrift shop find)

Of the stuff I do see, as you can probably tell, I love finding the gaming/rpg stuff from the early 90s and earlier, that load of 19 RPG books, 8 gaming mags and 8 CYOA/FF gamebooks (mainly from the 80s and very early 90s)...as well as a couple of 'original' Smurf figurines really made my day...well, 2 days...and then throw in a few other cool bits like Pandemic Contagion, Knave of Hearts (although I am not huge on party games, anything from the original incarnation of TSR is very welcome) and of course a few Star Wars toys, as well as an Asterix book (albeit in slightly rough shape)

back in the day I used to love to hit the swap-meets on the weekends, until the vendors largely took over the bigger, more established ones, kind of like whats happened to ebay in many respects (although being global...and huge...that isnt always a bad thing...in some respects its easier to find things you want/need)

I have seen a few other things more along the lines of what people collect here, but these days if the thrift shop thinks it's old, then it must be valuable, and either put a ridiculous price on it...or put it up for auction.

I guess it is actually probably a good thing that I don't have a vehicle, or I would likely hit all the swap meets and estate sales around, as opposed to just busing it down to the thrift stores 2 times a month or so, I would probably be in trouble very quickly

though, lately I have been thinking that I should tone it down a bit, or at the very least just post the most cool stuff (although, that is fairly subjective) before I start to annoy too many people

although...I have to admit...as of late, this- in and of itself, has become something of a hobby for me...