Who won the Amdek Drive?

[toddtmw]

Jumped from 122.50 to 312 in the last 5 seconds.

 

I have to believe someone on here got it.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Amdek-Atari-AMDC-II-Amdisk-III-3-Dual-Disk-Drive-W-Manual-Original-Disks-Works-/282682753573?hash=item41d1348225:g:b1IAAOSw0IZZ1p-c

 

Anyone want to admit it?

[SignGuy81]

I've done that quite a bit, I wait til last 8 seconds in an auction to place my bid, and usually get it in right on time. I usually go about 10 dollars higher if it is something I really want but never bid that much more when doing that. Whoever it was may have been able to get it for $130.

[toddtmw]

I bid around $250. there were two people that bidded higher than me.

[Guest]

mental finish

[SignGuy81]

I see now, looks like it is a very rare item, no wonder.

[+S.D.W.]

Pretty glad I picked one of these up 10 years ago.

[+slx]

Wouldn't have bought it for that amount (for Europe it's another 100 bucks for shipping), but would have expected it to show up in saved searches. Wonder why EBay didn't alert me

[+Allan]

If any one here won it, could they scan the manual and put it up on Archive.org?

 

Thanks,

Allan

[+MrFish]

I'd say a good part of the value is having that many disks for it. I'm guessing the disks are just as hard to find as the drive itself.

[+slx]

I'd say a good part of the value is having that many disks for it. I'm guessing the disks are just as hard to find as the drive itself.

 

I inherited a pack full of those from an Amstrad PCW my dad used in his office but as they have confidential data on them and I have no drive to erase them, I can't sell them....just kept them as a curiosity.

I actually liked them better than 3,5", they felt sturdier and never split at the seams.

 

It's hard to even search for them on EBay as you end up with tons of 3.5" hits. Ebay UK showed 3 listed at around 5$ per piece.

[Atari8bitCarts]

 

I inherited a pack full of those from an Amstrad PCW my dad used in his office but as they have confidential data on them and I have no drive to erase them, I can't sell them....just kept them as a curiosity.

I actually liked them better than 3,5", they felt sturdier and never split at the seams.

 

It's hard to even search for them on EBay as you end up with tons of 3.5" hits. Ebay UK showed 3 listed at around 5$ per piece.

lol, confidential data, it must be 30 years old by now. I wonder what it is.

does it really matter anymore, the data on them?

[+slx]

lol, confidential data, it must be 30 years old by now. I wonder what it is.

does it really matter anymore, the data on them?

 

It's legal stuff and some clients might still live or at least their heirs not want their data to be available. It's a matter of principle to keep client data confidential almost forever. Most of it is probably backed-up correspondence. I should have formatted the discs when I sold the machine but was in too much of a hurry. My main fault was selling the Amstrad at a time when hardly anyone was interested. It fetched a Euro plus postage on EBay which feels pretty low compared to what's paid today....but I needed the space more than CP/M

[+MrFish]

It's hard to even search for them on EBay as you end up with tons of 3.5" hits. Ebay UK showed 3 listed at around 5$ per piece.

 

Yeah, I tried doing some searches myself (before I commented) and gave up quickly.

 

Even at $5 a pop, that'd be $60, which is 19% of the final bid amount.

[jhd]

Can you bulk-erase these disks (using some kind of strong a magnet or a degausser), or would that permanently destroy them?

[+slx]

Can you bulk-erase these disks (using some kind of strong a magnet or a degausser), or would that permanently destroy them?

 

I never dared to try anything like that. For disks to be re-used I feared that they would be magnetized too strongly for another drive to format them. For disks I wanted to be empty I was never sure if running a magnet over the disc would actually erase them.

 

With neodym magnets the latter has probably lost in probability while the former has increased