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Still have le grand Amiga 1000 garbage in the gar-age...unsuspecting storage boxes filled with systems, boards, volumes of ROM Kernel Manuals, hundreds of period magazines, Aztec C, bazillion dollar 10MB-20MB (yes MB) hard drives and memory cards, case after case of floppy disks, software and hardware schematics for all my projects --many dead scorpions too rofl.

I had gone to a meeting at Disneyland Hotel in 1989-1990 and heard Mehdi Ali (CEO du jour) talk, then went home and forced myself to do a "hard stop" on Amiga after YEARS of around-the-clock (when not "working" to pay for it all haha) single-handedly implementing X.PC (Tymnet VAN's multichannel, dial-up, asynchronous, X.25 protocol) as the base for my grand plan that was going to be a fully distributed network system that used network directories and RPC to implement consumer apps like 10-20 years before Lotus Notes (and Meta Facebook).

Still, when I see projects like this one, I hear the boxes-o-Amigas calling me..someday maybe I will have the courage to put them into a proper trash dumpster (wearing gloves, of course). RIP Jay Miner https://youtu.be/guJOyJyTn5w



I know you're being poetic, but please don't dumpsterize that stuff. There are many people who would travel quite far to save it. Nobody is making any more of that old stuff, and it sounds like you might have some items of historical value.




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