I've got a new job!

[dongfeng]

As the title! Although this one is going to come with a slight culture shock, moving from rural Dorset (south coast UK) to central London (Knightsbridge). It's desktop/network support for a London College.

However, rather than worry about somewhere to live, I've spent most of the afternoon pondering which 8088 to take up there with me :lol:

I have two XT's with CGA (one early, one late), two 5150's with Mono, one Amstrad PC1640 with EGA.

The 'early' XT is winning so far, but as it's 10MB maybe I'll add my spare 20MB hardcard as a second drive.

I might see if I can sneak a 5150 into the office at some point, that should get them talking :p

[Erik]

Congratulations!

Good luck on your decision, and your move. :)

[CP/M User]

dongfeng wrote:

As the title! Although this one is going to come with a slight culture shock, moving from rural Dorset (south coast UK) to central London (Knightsbridge). It's desktop/network support for a London College.

Sorry to hear the bad news! :-(

Of course if you're from the City, it's not so bad.

CP/M User.

[chuckcmagee]

Life is backwards! When you are young, you have tons of energy. Too bad you don't have the experience to go with it. Later, lots of experience just too tired to do anything with it.

[carlsson]

Congrats to the job. I also got a new job this month, more than doubling my previous salary. Now I will have a decent amount of excess money, and already begun spending my evenings on eBay UK, despite the horribly expensive shipping with Parcelforce... :-D

So far I have bought myself an Acorn Electron (polys but no box) and been into bidding wars on several BBC micros. I guess if anyone on the forum has one too many, you're welcome to PM me. I was going to bid on a boxed Atari 65XE too, but didn't get to it which was a shame considering how relatively cheap it ended.

[Jorg]

...bidding wars on several BBC micros. I guess if anyone on the forum has one too many, you're welcome to PM me.

No, but if you see any offer where you have to buy two- that would not be a problem..

[carlsson]

That most certainly would be "collect only" somewhere in the deepest part of England. I don't know about you in the Netherlands, but from Sweden it is much too far away to drive or even fly to pick up stuff.

[Jorg]

It would, yes. I just mist an offer of someone offering a stack of BBC's in the Netherlands, for free pickup. There is a Dutch vintage computer mailing list that had it..

But how about this:
http://computer-hardware.marktplaats.nl/overige-computer-hardware/94284873-hobby-computer-acorn-bbc-met-floppydrive-sideways-ram-etc.html?return=&df=1&fta=

25 euros, not too bad..

[carlsson]

Yes, it is a very nice price! I collected a list of final bids on eBay UK, May 13-25th 2007. During this period, a loose BBC Model B never went below £10. Add a disk drive, and £16 (approx. 25 EUR) coincidentally is the cheapest I've found. So if you want one, get that one in Holland if it works. Or you could at least contact the seller and ask if he's willing to ship internationally. My Dutch is a bit rusty...

[dongfeng]

Thanks guys, I am hoping it was the right decision to make, and I think it will be very interesting to live in the capital city. It also gives me a new hunting ground for searching out vintage machines ;)

[dongfeng]

Congrats to the job. I also got a new job this month, more than doubling my previous salary. Now I will have a decent amount of excess money, and already begun spending my evenings on eBay UK, despite the horribly expensive shipping with Parcelforce... :-D

I never use Parcelfarce ;)

I often use www.parcel2go.com . Recently I shipped an entire Amstrad CPC6128 with colour monitor manuals and disks for £9.99, whereas Parcelforce wanted £30. I guess it would only be worthwhile to Europe if you wanted to ship a bigger consignment though. I always find third-party couriers much better, yet also cheaper!

[carlsson]

I'm just curious where those alternative couriers end up at my part. Post office? DHL? Some other delivery place? Will I get a notification from whoever handles my package, or will I have to go hunting on my own where in the world it may be?