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The day is saved...our company moves to a new building and we have to get rid of old stuff...and I found a complete Amiga1000 with all accessories and a Atari 800xl with discdrive and stuff...chief says "take it if you want"...my girlfriend will be "happy as hell" when I return with some more oldskool hardware for sure! :D

uhh your company is storing floppies with your demos on it?!

Ok...needs some explanation:
My chief is former Jackal/Nuance who coded parts of the good old "Subtle Shades". ;)

He's the boss at the job...I'm the boss of the demogroup. A division that satisfies me. :D

He said: "There are still some unreleased things on that discs." Ahaaaaaaaaa! :D

Hehe nice!! I got some old Commodore 1084S Monitor from my old work!

ok that explains- just one mystery remains- is that 800xl where it all started? :)

Yep...he started coding on the Atari 800XL...have to get this whole stuff a bit cleaner and then I have a look if the discs and discdrives are still working...ha...fun ahead! :D

i heard that a whole pile of amigas were thrown out here just before i started :( I've done will with old pcs and pc parts though, plus i've had quite a few macs (older ones, but reasonable).

Still, I'm hugely jealous of that pile of old hardware + disks ;)

Some bloke came up to me after a lecture I gave on Amiga demos and asked me if I could help him set up 30 A600s and 20 A1200s for a museum exhibit. Hooray! I think he's going to do a multi-input/one-bigscreen thingy, or something.

Good places to find old Amigas are TV stations that've had in-house subtitling. My girlfriend works for the BBC, who used to use Amigas with genlocks for overlaying subtitles. Sadly, she missed the opportunity to grab a shitload of video toaster/genlock/A1200/A4000 hardware when it was being dumped.

Good places to also find quite often a lot of C64 and Amigas and stuff is the electronic recycling here in the city. When I last were there dumping broken monitors, they had quite a bunch of old C=64...what a shame...

I still feel sad for not picking up a shitload of Atari Falcons when my school was selling them for about 20 euros a piece. :(

my best haul from somewhere i used to work:
2 x dreamcast devkits
1 x atari falcon

=)

Also quite a nice catch!

Dreamcast devkits make decent doorstops!

the dc devkits will probably be appearing on ebay as soon as i can be arsed to plug them in and wipe the hard disks. so if you're after a doorstop... ;)

Nah, we're using an old Xbox now to hold open the door (no joke :))

Paul, you've got a Falcon? Fucking hell. You selling? I wouldn't mind a DC devkit either.

You just told me on IRC what you'd want for the DC devkit, and you can get stuffed.

Haha! It's not what I want, it's what the market dictates! I'd love to sell it to you cheaper but capitalism won't let me.. sorry m8 ;'(

At least make it a bit cheaper and set the rule he has to release a demo on Dreamcast within two months then and release it on a small party! ;)

Cool find! Don't you love it when you come across personal artifacts. :)

I was rooting around on the net the other night and found an old Superfrog pic I got printed in Amiga power....




I'm feeling so old now.

Love it. I think I'll finally get a showcase for all my old computers. Polish them a bit and put them in there. That way I can tell my girlfriend they're precious antique things. Much more easy to get some room for all the stuff this way! ;)

Can you post the link to the page that contains the picture of yours?

This is the Amiga Power link...

http://amr.abime.net/issue_30_pages

Unfortunately I lost the original DPaint image years ago. :(

Or maybe...

http://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture.php?src=amiga_power/magscans/ap30_1993_10/066.jpg&c=18632

I found this today: www.retro-computer.dk

It's expensive, in Danish and has a very limited inventory :-)

oh, and I got 2 21" CRT screens at my last job and so far I've found two dockingstations in the bin