Phonemark "Quick Data Drive" - info?, also WTD Commodore 15xx drive, info.

From: Adrian Vickers <avickers_at_solutionengineers.com>
Date: Tue Jan 7 15:14:00 2003

At 20:26 07/01/2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:

>Can someone here please enlighten me? How much are these things going for on
>Ebay?

Well, 3 have sold in the last calendar month for between ?8.50 & ?10. Then
2 batches of 4 for circa 8.50 (so around 2.12 quid each). The first one I
saw going through eBay notched up about ?35.

>I'm thinking "L_at__at_K!!! R_at_R3 !!! QUICKDATA DRIVE C64 **NIB**" :-)

Hmmm. NIB I can legitimately put (it's still wrapped in its plastic inner),
but the box is shafted...

>I'll try them, thanks. I got mine from Greenweld, perhaps they've got some
>spare wafers in stock...

I suspect most of the eBay ones have come from other purchasors of Bull's
Box'o'Junk^wGoodies, BICBW.

> > eBay if you don't mind paying, otherwise check out garage sales & the
> > like.
>I saw one at a hamfest - unfortunately She Who Must Be Obeyed walked up
>behind me and said "If you buy that piece of junk, you and your 'find' are
>sleeping outside." Grr...

You could have offered her in part exchange.... :)

>Two quid for a C64, tons of disks (not that I need
>them - IIRC I've got fifty of 'em) and a 1541. Well, it was a murky brown
>colour with a black drive faceplate and it was 5.25", so I guessed it was a
>1541. Problem was, the seller would only sell it if I took *all* of it, C64,
>drive, disks, the lot.

One of these?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11991&item=2085830908

Mind you, there's no way I'd pay 23 quid for one...

>BTW, last time I saw a C64 at a car boot sale was two years ago. Can someone
>suggest a car boot sale either in or within, say, 20 miles of Leeds,
>England? I've tried the car boot sale that's usually held on Cross Green
>Trading Estate weekly (every Sunday, 9AM->noon IIRC) - total white elephant.

Dunno about Leeds. The best I've been to is Hackney market (N. London,
natch). And all they had in the classic comp range was one mucky but
servicable C64C (?1), and a Mac LC ii (which I wish I'd bought, even though
it was just lying in some mud).


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Cheers, Ade.
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Received on Tue Jan 07 2003 - 15:14:00 GMT

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