Date : Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:25:31 +0100
From : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: UC: Car boot finds!
I got quite a bit from local schools in 2001/2002. I didn't encounter
the "we can't give you that, suppose it explodes in 8 years' time and
you sue us" attitude (which I can well believe exists everywhere) but
rather, "Yes, do please come and take all this rubbish away for free,
because if we dispose of it ourselves the Council charge us £xxx for
getting rid of it."
Most of it was standard Master 128s and some ropey disc drives,
although I was lucky enough to get my first FileStore, the E01,
and a Master 512.
I've always been amazed at just how little Econet stuff is about,
given that practically every decent sized school must have had
an Econet of some description in the 1980s.
Best wishes,
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: Wright, Chris
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:13:04 +0100
Subject: RE: UC: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!
As I was told not long ago...
Are there not issues with schools giving you stuff ? I mean, if they
gave you an old master and you were burnt by an erupting battery pack,
could they not be held responsible ?, and so are more inclined to just
bin everything as its not worth the risk.
Of course if you can convince them to 'carefully' place all those old
beebs and cub monitors into the skip, they can't be held responsible for
a ford transit pulling up in the dead of night and emptying it!
I guess a begging letter round all the local schools is the only way you
would find out. Btw I will take an MDFS off your hands if you find one
;-)
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From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
Of Steve O'Leary
Sent: 13 September 2006 16:29
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: RE: UC: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!
** Top posting because that's how this threads going **
There must still be schools surely with dusty stockrooms where at the
back you might find some beeb kit. Although after use in a school they
can be a bit battered. Or do people think most schools have shifted all
this kit now ?(probably to a skip). Was there perhaps a peak 10 - 15
years ago when it all went perhaps ? Still there must be some somewhere
in schools.
Steve
________________________________
> From: CALITTLEFIEL@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:38:22 +0100
> Subject: UC: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!
>
> I have to admit I managed to dig out one or two copies of Acorn User
(or
> some such) a while ago and it was really interesting to read
especially the
> Watford Electronics advertisements. I always wanted their fancy speech
> synthesiser unit but could never afford it at the time (being a
schoolboy!).
> If I ever see one again I'll be tempted...
>
> Of course I can always make the computer speak profanities by using
the
> software 'Speech', always a laugh!
>
> Back to BBC finds, I've yet to find anything at a car boot sale that
is BBC
> related (other than the odd Electron game), plenty of Sinclair kit
around
> but never a stashed away Model B :(
>
> I'm obviously going to the wrong auctions. I keep peering into the
skips at
> work to see if there are any BBC items thrown out, most of the time
its
> knackered PC parts but you never know...
>
> Has anybody ever rescued any from skips?
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
Of
> Ian Wolstenholme
> Sent: 13 September 2006 13:35
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: UC: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!
>
> I can't honestly remember how I found out about it. He was local
> and he may have contacted me through the website but it had only
> just started at the time. The whole lot filled up the back seat and
> the boot of the car and my popularity at home has never recovered!
>
> I think the best thing of all is the full set of Beebugs, these are
> really fascinating for an insight into the early history of the Beeb
> and all the distribution problems there were. You had to wait about
> 9 months to get a Beeb back in 1981-82!
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Littlefield Aaron
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:23:21 +0100
> Subject: UC: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!
>
> Ian,
>
> How on earth did you manage to get hold of all that? Was the guy going
to
> throw it all away?!
>
> Aaron
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
Of
> Ian Wolstenholme
> Sent: 13 September 2006 13:14
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!
>
> This little lot wasn't bad....
>
> http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/GreatestFind/Greatest.html
>
> ...especially since it was all free!!!!!!
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Littlefield Aaron
> To: BBC-Micro Mailing List <bbc-micro@...>
> Sent: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:18:55 +0100
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!
>
> Purely out of interest, what's the best Acorn item you've ever bought
from a
> car boot or private sale?
>
>
>
> Mine is probably a 128k B+ with all the receipts and the stickers
still on
> the case, which was from a guy at work.
>
>
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
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