Congrats. The A3000 is my favorite of the Amiga family. I think it was the
most professional looking, case was very well made, and had very good
capability out of the box. I had an A3640 in mine and it was very speedy.
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
I have adopted the Amiga 3000. I will love it and squeeze it and call it
George. My folks got me an Amiga 1000 just before I started college in
1986, and I happily used it for a several years before I upgraded to a Sun
3/60. I still have the A1000, and cleaning it up and getting it working
again is on my long list of projects. This A3000 is really cool, because I
lost touch with the Amiga world beyond the A1000/A2000/A500 era.
I also grabbed the C128 with thoughts of giving it away in the gift
exchange at my company's upcoming holiday party, but I think I'll give away
a TRS-80 Model 100 there instead since it's small and self-contained. I
have no experience with Commodore stuff other than the Amiga family, so I
can learn about it with the C128. But if another local collector really
lusts after that C128, I'm not too attached to it yet and I wouldn't mind
passing it along after I play with it briefly.
Ok, while we're giving the gift of retrocomputing, I have something else
to offer: I have a Wyse 350 color dumb terminal that is free to a loving
home. I've powered it up and fiddled with it in local mode; it works, but I
think it may have some bouncy keys. It includes a manual. Similar terms
apply:
* Not for resale! Grab it if you have a use for it.
* Local pick-up, either in Irvine, CA (I work there on weekdays) or in
Riverside, CA on weekends (we can meet at my local Starbucks).
I also have a DEC VT240 which I will want to unload once I take a stab at
fixing its dead monitor, but I'm holding it for ransom in trade for other
DEC stuff for my PDP-11 project. ;)
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/