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Sony DCR-PC5E Camcorder
Listed as requiring a battery.
It now has a battery (which cost
more than I paid for the camera).
I have made some recordings on
this but I have yet to do anything
with those recordings... |
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Alba Data Recorder
Sold as faulty due to "no
sound output". It's still
faulty... It's also missing a knob
(I didn't notice that when I was
eagerly buying it off ebay for
£6...) I have discovered it at
least needs a new belt for the
tape counter, I also found a
ground wire had come off, but
still no sound... |
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Crown Portable CD Player CDN-73Q
I'd acquired a Crown-branded
CD player that was having issues
so I was looking for another to
use as parts. I found this one and
when I queried the seller about
its fault they just offered it for
the cost of postage, being keen to
find a home for it. I can't
remember where I got to with its
issues... I like the style/colours
though. |
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Sony Mavica Camera, and bag
Seeing that this Mavica
included the original bag I
thought it would be ideal to pear
up with my first Mavica (see
below) or maybe even swap the
floppy drive with, if that's
possible. I haven't tried that
yet... |
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Toshiba Satellite 4010CDT Laptop
I installed Windows ME on
this and it was fun to use. It was
also handy to create things like
BIOS discs using the floppy drive.
However, I have come to find that
it is no longer working and I
can't figure out why. |
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Sony Mavica MVC-FD88
Listed as untested but works.
Perhaps the floppy drive is
somewhat temperamental, or maybe
it's my floppy disks... yes, this
camera saves photos (and video
clips) onto floppy disks. I have
now caught the camera-collecting
bug... |
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Various parts...
I can't remember what's here,
but some will be useful. Some
Athlon XP processors and a
graphics card... oh, and a hard
drive enclosure. |
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Acer PC case...
I need to do something with
this. I think it arrived with just
the optical drive, and maybe a PSU,
maybe... |
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AlphaSmart 3000
This is a portable word
processor which caught my eye with
its early Apple/Y2K aesthetics.
It's quirky yet handy to use; it
uses 3 x AA batteries which last
an age, the data is transferred as
text via a standard USB cable as
if the device was a keyboard
(typing fast), and the dot-matrix
display is legible outside. The
keyboard however isn't as slick to
type on as I'd hoped. |
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Dell XPS 210 PC (Vista)
This is an interesting slim PC
from Dell; the door for the
optical drive hinges up and open
from the press of a button. It's
somewhat Alien-esque. |
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Time Bundle
I bought this bundle of things
because it included a Time branded
keyboard. I had a Windows 98
computer from Time back in the
day. Sadly though, while the
keyboard is Time branded, it's a
later model from when the company
went into decline and got too
heavy-handed with the cost
cutting, but I did sell it though,
recovering my cost of the bundle
IIRC. |
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eBox System
The seller clearly didn't know
what they were selling but this
was essentially a working
computer. I just need to decide
what to do with it. |
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ATI
Radeon R9250 256MB AGP
In box. It was a good price and I
think I needed an AGP card for
something... |
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Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI Motherboard
with Zalman Cooler
Also, an AMD Athlon 3500+ CPU. I'm
not sure what I need a SLi board
for; I don't have that sense of
intrigue as I had for the
CrossFire boards, I think because
I've had SLi boards before. |
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ZX
Spectrum+ 48K
In original box. While it was sold
to me as working it ended up
having an issue with the keyboard
ribbon cables which I was
thankfully able to resolve. I used
to have one of these systems back
in the early 2000s,
 along
with a 128K +2 and +3. I don't
have those any more but I do have
a grey 128K in need of repair (see
below). I also later bought a
couple of books to go with this
(it was lacking its original
manual). |
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Fujitsu E620 PC
Ready and waiting for a fresh
install of Windows XP. This system
came with a Creative sound card
installed (to be used elsewhere),
making the whole thing a good
deal. |
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Sony VAIO PCG Laptop
I got this at a cheap price as it
was listed as faulty. While it
does power on, it is essentially
unuseable due to battery leakage.
This I was able to ascertain by
only removing a cover, but
complete disassembly will be
required to proceed (not
straightforward with this model)
and even then will likely be
beyond my abilities to fix. I do
like a lot of the VAIO range of
things... |
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Antec Fusion Media Center
I got hold of this system for a
good price with the intention of
using / reselling the Antec case
(from around 2008). So far I've
figured out which versions of
Windows the drivers for the case
work with (the volume control knob
doesn't work with all). |
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