How did this get here?

[alexh]

I've been talking to dad664npc about helping out on PiStorm Atari. But I couldn't find an ST with a socketed DIL 68000 among any of my "for spares" STs.

So I thought I'd have a look on €Bay for a cheap STfm locally, sometimes you get good deals on collection only items. I had planned to spend under £40 but there wasn't anything local except for this :

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520ST "Shorty" + Single Sided FDD + Mouse + All manuals/disks + SM124 (all in very good cosmetic condition)

OMG if it doesn't all work flawlessly.

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I didn't even know Shorty's existed until Cyberlegends last year!

I'm going to try to get my RPi PicoHD that I bought from @exxos working later.

[Cyprian]

congrats,
the price is really good and I see the stuff is in a good condition.

[chronicthehedgehog]

That was almost given away

I used to have a cooker like that. Moved over to gas now as I was tired of cold food

[alexh]

I used to have a cooker like that. Moved over to gas now as I was tired of cold food

With this one, cooking is child's play.

[HigashiJun]

Nice deal !

[Steve]

I did see that one on eBay actually, thought about mentioning it here on the forum, but then I thought I'd better not, since I may have ruined the 'secret' lol

It does look very good! Glad it was someone here who got it.

[PhilC]

You can get some good deals on collection only equipment. I once got a box of ST equipment, enough to build up 7 STFMs and other stuff in a box that big I had to collect it in the work van, all for £49.

Those days are mostly gone now.

Gotta love a short ST, I have four of them at the mo, oops.

[mrbombermillzy]

You can get some good deals on collection only equipment. I once got a box of ST equipment, enough to build up 7 STFMs and other stuff in a box that big I had to collect it in the work van, all for £49.

That sounds like the deal of a lifetime @PhilC!!

[PhilC]

@mrbombermillzy it was, the box even came with a working Sega Megadrive in it.

I don’t think I’ll ever get another like it.

[JezC]

You can get some good deals on collection only equipment. I once got a box of ST equipment, enough to build up 7 STFMs and other stuff in a box that big I had to collect it in the work van, all for £49.

That sounds like the deal of a lifetime @PhilC!!

I think the closest to that I ever got was 3x STFMs (2 working, one faulty) for £50 as a collection only...which I still think is a pretty good deal!