Hi everyone on this list! My name is Dimitri Kokken and I live in Brussels, Belgium. I am the owner of an indoor go-kart centre and I am (was?) a passionate collector of home computers. But...I decided to sell them all. Of course, I was looking for a way to "promote" the sale of my entire old home-computer collection, over 570 different ones, and one of the largest HOME-COMPUTER collections in the world (there are indeed larger COMPUTER collections, but not like this one I think). Anyway...while searching the net I found out about this mailing list and decided to "enlist" :) About the sale of my collection...I thought it all over very carefully if I was going to do it or not, but there are more reasons I can think of to do it, than not. Some of the most important ones are : * The passion I had collecting old home computers has kind of "faded away"...and when the passion's gone... * I am now the proud father (since 15 months) of a daughter and our second saw the light of day a week ago and almost all of my spare time is spent playing with her (and once nr. 2 is old enough : them)...those with kids will understand what I mean. * We (my wife and I) started building a house and that always costs a lot of money...so, if I can earn some extra with this sale that's nice, it's a bonus so to speak (sale or no sale, we have the funds to build the house, it's just nice to have "more than you need" for unforeseen circumstances, which occur quite often apparently when building) * I also am the owner of an indoor go-kart centre and that also takes a lot of time...business is going very well, thus : more work (no, I'm not complaining). If you're a buyer and want to pick up the computers here in Brussels a free kart-ride is (of course) included. How am I selling this lot? Well...of course I thought about Ebay, but I just don't like to pay that many fees (who does?) Then I got the (very kind) offer from the webmaster of MO5.COM to make an auction site "? la" Ebay...he did this in a record time (3 days or so). So now I have all 530+ comps (40+ were sold in one lot to a bidder) on sale at www.mo5.com/dimitrisales/ and some 140 people are already placing bids on the comps. The auctions will all end on Sunday the 4th of december, giving everyone plenty of time to bid and think about how much they're willing to spend on their "fave" computer. There are some real "gems" in the collection, the one which received the highest bid untill now (and probably till the end) is the ORIGINAL GOLDEN C64 WITH COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE!!! But that's just one of the many nice comps. up for grabs I'd say...it all depends on what you fancy, are you a CBM freak, an Atari lover or....??? If you want to see some pics of the collection you can go here : http://users.pandora.be/F-242/Computers/NewPics-25-10-05/ http://users.pandora.be/F-242/Computers/Computer-List-Dimitri-with-picture-… or http://users.pandora.be/F-242/Computers/Computer-List-Dimitri-with-picture-… contain the entire list of my collection, direct links to many of the comps can be found there as well. Well, that's about it...I have made a FAQ on how to bid/pay/get the comps and also lots of other questions are answered in there as well. This FAQ can be found at the www.mo5.com/dimitrisales/ site. So, if you're curious about all this, or (even better for me) are looking for something in particular, go and check it out, you won't regret it. Kind regards, Dimitri Kokken