Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.Smash Wogan writes, "we all love our Mums, but we all know that Mums can be cunts, throwing out our carefully hoarded crap that we know is going to be worth millions some day."
What priceless junk have you lost because someone just threw it out?
Zero points for "all my porn". Unless it was particularly good porn...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 16:32)
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Gained and LostMany years ago I was in Tandy buying some audio cables when a guy had come in with a box of junk wandering if the shop wanted it. He just wanted to get rid of it. So of course the shop didnt want anything from customers so I managed to get myself into the conversation and happily took the box off him :)
I couldnt believe what I found. As well as an old Vic 20, a perfectly boxed original ZX81 - rubber keys the lot - with manuals in awesome condition.
I took it home and tested it and it worked! woo hoo. Thinking in many years this would be worth something.
And yes guess what happened? A couple of years later and it got thrown out. Doh
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LIES!!!It was the Spectrum that had rubber keys. The 81 had a flat keyboard
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Yes...Spectrum had rubber keys, ZX80 was a flat white wedge, ZX81 a black wedge.
All 3 had the dodgy rear connector for joysticks though - wobbly as feck...
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snee held his breath since, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 8:06,
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If only...It was a ZX80, still unassembled and boxed.
Now that may well have been worth something.
As to the shoddy connectors on the back, the answer (to the power at least) was to open the power pack and put a little switch in.
I think my speccy was the only one that didn't have huge amounts of blue-tack of cellotape holding the power cable in the back!
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