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ghost
November 16th, 2007, 07:37 AM
Top of my list is the Amiga 3000UX - with OS disks so I can install from scratch. After that - any Amiga with MMU and Maths CoPro chips in it (third party add-ons or standard equipment is fine - as long as you have the documentation for it). Must be in working order though.

For a Sinclair QL I would prefer the original (not the telephone hybrid thingy they did with the Australian telco or the French telco). Once again - the more original discs and documents you have the better (I already have a technicians guide to the QL which includes a full circuit diagram).

I am in QLD, Australia - happy to pay reasonable transport costs from most places in the world.

Sharkonwheels
November 17th, 2007, 01:18 PM
If you're looking for a 3000UX with installable media, it comes on tape, so you will also need one of the (very few) AmigaUnix compatible tape drive.
I believe a Cipher CP150, and a viper 150 (forgot brand) were compatible.

Watch out for the later AmigaUnix, as many came with defective media.

I believe there is an AmigaUnix group on one of the sites, don;t think it's Yahoo! or Google - somewhere else. I think they had tape images, that you could recreate with the AmigaUnix compatible tape drive, on a linux machine with a SCSI controller. i think they just did dd dumps of the tapes, but it was a tape with multiple volumes, so you'd have to use the equivalent of the No-Rewind tape drive (ie, on SCO, it was /dev/nrstp0 - NoRewingScsiTaPe0)

I had one, but sold it many years ago, and even had the A1410 'Lowell' Zorro2 video card, which was fully supported under AmigaUnix and it's Xwindows.
If you want it to network, you will have to find one of the Commodore Ethernet boards, which will not be an easy, or low-cost task either!

Tony