Date   : Fri, 11 May 2012 01:00:24 +0100
From   : dm.hunt@... (David Hunt)
Subject: Free Acorn kit - needs to go urgently

> On Thu, 10 May 2012 20:25:45 +0100, Kris Adcock
> <beeb@...> wrote:
> 
> >On 06/05/2012 21:32, John Kortink wrote:
> >
> >> There was this guy on Ebay that bought almost everything a few years
> >> back (maybe still, I don't know), whose collection I would not mind
> >> having a peek at. He seemed to buy heaps of games and a couple of
> >> model Bs almost every week, I think.
> >> For years on end. He must have had a spare wing in his house to store
> >> it all ... I understood, talking to someone else, that he was
> >> retired.
> >
> >If it's the same chap I sold a lot of kit to (he must have bought about
> >ten beebs off me over a year or two) he is indeed retired. He lives in
> >Cambridge - when I started working there for Sony the other year I
> >began dropping the computers off in person. Had a very nice cup of tea
> >and a chat. Very nice man, with a very understanding spouse. :)
> 
> His 'nom de Ebay' is 'penmirash'. Peeking at his feedback, he's still at
> it (by the looks of it) ... Certainly a game collector (visions of a
> library, one filled bookcase per letter of the alphabet ... :-).

I have visited penmirash, he lives about a mile from me and his spare room,
attic and garage are packed to the gills with all kinds of Beeb/Acorn stuff,
lots of duplicates too, I counted seven copies of Arcadians on disc and
looking at the sheer volume, I'm sure he had everything. IIRC his name is
Roger, surname escapes me. His wife is very, very understanding up to a
point. He can't have "it" spreading anywhere else... :-)

Dave