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The Weekend's Haul
Feb. 3rd, 2004 09:39 amIn the end, Siani came with, and we took her Scorpio - far more room.
First stop: Cambridge. Left Hawick at 3:40am, arrived in Cambridge around 10am having managed to completely miss the A1 and taken the M1 - doh! Probably only added 30 miles or so, and I can't stand the A1 anyway. Collected:
1 x Acorn business computer 310. The last, rarest variant of the ABC prototypes, which some collectors reckon is the only one they've heard of (I know different, the bloke that gave it to me has a completely operational one). This looked scruffy, when I got it home it blew fuses. Took the PSU from the next item and have got it 75% operational - the screen is still flaking out, but the BBC and 80286 co-processor are working, which is the main thing.
1 x ABC shell. Just a casing with a PSU and monitor electronics/tube. Not even cabling.
1 x Canon Starwriter without a PSU.
Then, on to Newbury. This was the main 'goal' - the BBC Domesday system. In the end it consisted of 1 x BBC Master Turbo AIV (the SCSI and 4MHz upgraded BBC Master used to control the Domesday system), in fair condition, 2 normal BBC Masters in reasonable condition but one has broken keys, and a boxed BBC Master with manuals. Then there is the Domesday system itself - a Philips VP-415 LVROM player (a VP405 industrial player with genlock and SCSI data mods), a VP405 for spares, one brand new set of discs, one used National disc with packaging, manual for the system, and some software called Domesday Display, a presentation package. Couple of trackballs, one in need of minor restoration work, 2 x 5.25" drives, 1 x 3.5" drive, 1 x 1 MHz bus SCSI HD, couple of CUB monitors (one with a huge dent in it - already my favourite) and some other software and things for BBCs.
Whilst there, met a bloke with a Mac I bought on eBay. Turned out that the Colour Classic I bought had a PrestoPlus '040/Ethernet/32Mb RAM card installed, which was described merely as extra RAM and ethernet and not working. Turn on 32-bit addressing, and it's all working now! Colour Classics are quite nice little machines, too.
Then, up to Birmingham on the M6, where I found the Atari 800 I'd offered 30 quid for was in mint condition with all the manuals, the 1050 is mint, and only the 410 tape deck is scruffy. A quick check on eBay reveals that the Atari 800 sells for £70+ and is quite a rarity!
Got home just before 11pm, absolutely knackered.
Cars: Got an MG-TF for a 24 hour test drive. I like it, Siani thinks it's a Siani torture device. Blue suede seats! Shame the weather is so truly horrible that I can't enjoy driving it at all :(
First stop: Cambridge. Left Hawick at 3:40am, arrived in Cambridge around 10am having managed to completely miss the A1 and taken the M1 - doh! Probably only added 30 miles or so, and I can't stand the A1 anyway. Collected:
1 x Acorn business computer 310. The last, rarest variant of the ABC prototypes, which some collectors reckon is the only one they've heard of (I know different, the bloke that gave it to me has a completely operational one). This looked scruffy, when I got it home it blew fuses. Took the PSU from the next item and have got it 75% operational - the screen is still flaking out, but the BBC and 80286 co-processor are working, which is the main thing.
1 x ABC shell. Just a casing with a PSU and monitor electronics/tube. Not even cabling.
1 x Canon Starwriter without a PSU.
Then, on to Newbury. This was the main 'goal' - the BBC Domesday system. In the end it consisted of 1 x BBC Master Turbo AIV (the SCSI and 4MHz upgraded BBC Master used to control the Domesday system), in fair condition, 2 normal BBC Masters in reasonable condition but one has broken keys, and a boxed BBC Master with manuals. Then there is the Domesday system itself - a Philips VP-415 LVROM player (a VP405 industrial player with genlock and SCSI data mods), a VP405 for spares, one brand new set of discs, one used National disc with packaging, manual for the system, and some software called Domesday Display, a presentation package. Couple of trackballs, one in need of minor restoration work, 2 x 5.25" drives, 1 x 3.5" drive, 1 x 1 MHz bus SCSI HD, couple of CUB monitors (one with a huge dent in it - already my favourite) and some other software and things for BBCs.
Whilst there, met a bloke with a Mac I bought on eBay. Turned out that the Colour Classic I bought had a PrestoPlus '040/Ethernet/32Mb RAM card installed, which was described merely as extra RAM and ethernet and not working. Turn on 32-bit addressing, and it's all working now! Colour Classics are quite nice little machines, too.
Then, up to Birmingham on the M6, where I found the Atari 800 I'd offered 30 quid for was in mint condition with all the manuals, the 1050 is mint, and only the 410 tape deck is scruffy. A quick check on eBay reveals that the Atari 800 sells for £70+ and is quite a rarity!
Got home just before 11pm, absolutely knackered.
Cars: Got an MG-TF for a 24 hour test drive. I like it, Siani thinks it's a Siani torture device. Blue suede seats! Shame the weather is so truly horrible that I can't enjoy driving it at all :(
