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[Naton]

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&it em=160334632532 Hey, this is an extremely rare A1020, with original box no less. I just bought one without the box for $60, and I would absolutely kick my self if this one sold for a cent less knowing I could have grabbed it instead! So I had to post it here, get bidding collectors

[LoadWB]

About four years back, I picked one up for $25. I do not think it included the box, but I cannot recall. Anyway, I modified it to run 1541 to rip C64 disks. I say modified: it takes a minor speed adjustment.

[save2600]

Hmm... I wonder if this could be used to write TRS-80 Model III disks? OR is there some kind of a CatWeasel type adaptor that would also need to be used?

[icbrkr]

I was wondering the same thing but I haven't found an answer. I have a Model 4P in the closet I was trying to make some disks for.

[save2600]

Another damn auction that I missed out on :-( I need to carry an ePay auction timer on me that kicks me in the nuts or something, else I forget! lol

And no, it never helps to bid against ones self. ePay is so stupid that way. Bidding last minute is the only way to go. If I would have bid $70 on the 1020 at any given time, someone would have beat me by a dollar last second. ePay sux.

[LoadWB]

I would suspect that, like with a number of 3.5" formats, so long as the drive electronics can read the physical media, the Amiga, with the right filesystem, will be able to read the data.

In the case of reading 1541 disks, one has to change the spindle speed to (from memory, so I'm probably wrong) 280rpm instead of 300rpm. Something like that.

And eBay is not so bad, I find that the buyers can be the problem (enabled after-the-fact by eBay, but the source of trouble none-the-less is the buyer.) Not to say that sellers are not a problem, but for the purposes of my story... Anyway, I got a complaint against me as a seller many years back because I rejected a winning bid from a guy who put a bid in the last 30 seconds of one of my auctions against a fella who had his bid in for five days and kept besting other bidders. In short, he sniped and I said no f-ing way, Jack.

Turned out at the time that the only way to legitimately prevent that was to ban him or something similar. Some seemingly-convoluted process in eBay that I hope has been eliminated or changed in the years since.

The short is that I cannot abide snipers. I do not want money from people like that. I much rather prefer to sell to people who demonstrate their interest by bidding somewhere in the less-than-six-days-23-hours-59-minute range. Ya know?

[InTheSand]

save2600 wrote:
Hmm... I wonder if this could be used to write TRS-80 Model III disks? OR is there some kind of a CatWeasel type adaptor that would also need to be used?

Assuming you've got a PC running Win2K or XP and a motherboard with a BIOS that supports 5.25" drives (or at least one drive), it's worth checking out Omniflop as this can read and write many many "alien" formats just using standard hardware (though not the Amiga's, for reasons discussed elsewhere).

I'm no expert on the Trash-80, but Omniflop lists TRS-80 Model 1 NEWDOS/80 v2.0 and TRSDOS 3.1 as supported at the disk image level.

- Ali

[spirantho]

@Thread:

You'll have a lot of trouble reading old 5 1/4" disks because they're usually FM encoded on stuff like the TRS-80, instead of MFM. It may be possible with some clever use of the hardware but I very much doubt trackdisk.device would help. You really need a Catweasel (which I believe supports TRS-80 disks only on PCs), and you'll probably need to write your own driver (not impossible).


Off Topic:
@save2600:

eBay doesn't let you bid against yourself, it uses proxy bidding. The only time sniping helps at all is when a newbie gets carried away. Any time adults are involved who know how to use eBay, the proxy system mean you'll get it for the same amount.

@loadwb:
You turned down someone's bid just because he bid in the last minute? If I were him I'd be livid and report you to eBay immediately! Plus don't you want the highest $$$ for your item?

[tribz]

And eBay is not so bad, I find that the buyers can be the problem (enabled after-the-fact by eBay, but the source of trouble none-the-less is the buyer.) Not to say that sellers are not a problem, but for the purposes of my story... Anyway, I got a complaint against me as a seller many years back because I rejected a winning bid from a guy who put a bid in the last 30 seconds of one of my auctions against a fella who had his bid in for five days and kept besting other bidders. In short, he sniped and I said no f-ing way, Jack.

Its an auction. Highest bidder wins. Its not clever to bid early and push the price up. Real world and ebay auctions are exactly the same. I'd of complained as well.

[save2600]

spirantho wrote:

Off Topic:
@save2600:

eBay doesn't let you bid against yourself, it uses proxy bidding. The only time sniping helps at all is when a newbie gets carried away. Any time adults are involved who know how to use eBay, the proxy system mean you'll get it for the same amount.

Sniping works, but depends on how many people are interested in something. What I am saying as others have pointed out, bidding so early can backfire and drive prices up unnecessarily. That's how one can be bidding "against themselves" so to speak. And absolutely, like much of life - really sucks when adults (or wiser people) are not in control. The current state of our political system is monumental proof of what happens when kids & dolts alike are allowed to have a say. Rationale behind letting 18 year olds vote is so they can be drafted into war. Ahem, anyway...

Never thought about the newbie thing, but that would help explain why so many bidders are flaking out of deals within the past few years.