Re: Giday from Australia! :)

Hi SD, 

Well that would be wonderful. 

Would you be willing to part with 2x faulty 8250LP 's? (One as an ongoing
parts unit). 
If so perhaps get some shipping prices for 1x & 2x units in different ways. 
I am a patient person. If surface mail is far more realistic price wise I
would be happy to wait the 3+ months for it to come by boat!. 

If it's more economical to send 2x together then that would be the go. 
But if it's not much difference to send just one at a time. Maybe I try and
get the first one going first without a second one for parts. 

The drive mechanism's are the hard bit. Some spare drive mechanisms may be
important. 

I originally owned a brand new Boxed 8250LP from CBM Sydney but it went
faulty within the first month and went for repair and never returned. So I
got burnt on that sadly back in the day. 
That then prompted me to move my BBS from c64 to my first Amiga. (A1000). I
had to make a home brew interface to add a st506 hard drive using an XT RLL
controller that took it from 20MB to 32MB! :)

Ah the good old days! :)

Anyhow, maybe we can look at shipping costs and see if it's possible. :) 

SFD-1001 's (100i) would be cheaper to send. But I don't know how common
these are now. 
I know there is still a lot of nice CBM gear floating around in .EU as you
guys were last to close down the CBM division there.

I just hope my Punter disks still read. 
It's a big ask I think. But worth trying. 
It would be wonderful to get many copies of Punter out there and preserved
for all time. :) 
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Gerrit Heitsch wrote
> On 08/12/2015 06:43 PM, 

> silverdr@.org

>  wrote:
>> Hi Ken - a bit of my alter ego ;-) Nice to see you here!
>>
>>> I love IEEE-488 but am still in search of a 8250LP or SFD-1001 (100i).
>>> (100TPI)
>>
>> I have quite a number of 8250s, including LPs. Most of them are in need
>> of repairing, which is something I am planning to do.. some day,
>> hopefully while still on this world ;-)





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