Prizes for CommVEx v7 2011

[rbernardo]

Tomorrow, right after the FCUG meeting, I travel to Santa Clara to pick up the A2000 Video Toaster system, which is one of the raffle prizes for CommVEx. Duncan M. of The Other Group of Amigoids is refurbishing it, and though I don't have the details until I see it, it appears it will have a 2630 accelerator board running at 25 MHz.. I can hardly wait to get the rest of the details on this sweet machine.

The calm before CommVEx,

[rbernardo]

I just got back from Santa Clara (whew, what a day... first, a FCUG meeting in Fresno, then the 3-hour drive to Santa Clara, then a 1 1/2 hour drive to Stockton). I was there from 5:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. and watched as Duncan refurbished the Amiga 2000. (Finding a good CD-ROM drive for the machine was a pain.)

Here are the final A2000 specs: an A2630 board running at 25 MHz., 1 meg chip RAM, 8 meg Fast RAM, 4 gig SCSI hard drive, CD-ROM drive, dual floppy drives, Amiga OS 3.1, Video Toaster software 4.3, keyboard, mouse, and a new clock battery.

A fine machine,

[rbernardo]

The three bottles of "Charles Peddle - MOS 6502", a.k.a. "VIC-20 Buck Chuck", were picked up a few minutes ago. The labels look very nice! I'll post a picture of the bottle at http://retro-link.blogspot.com in the next day or two.

Wine for CommVEx attendees,

[rbernardo]

Raffle prizes --
a Commodore SX-64 computer
a Turbo-232 cartridge
a 1581 disk drive
PAL Commodore 64
an Amiga 2000 Video Toaster system
IBM Thinkcentre 8189 desktop Pentium 4 computer
a ZoomFloppy USB CBM drive interface and an autographed Boing Ball tie.

Door prizes -
Commodore binders
a set of the Jeri Ellsworth C64 DTV postage stamps
bottles of VIC-20 Buck Chuck red wine
a Commodore gift bag with a Commodore-related freebie
two copies of "Your Commodore 64"
Compleat Loadstar CD
various, classic Loadstar covers
the book, A Commodore 64 Walkabout

The Commodore binders have been replaced by a German C64 cartridge, the KCS Tape Speedsaver Combo. The details of this cart are at

http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/d ... vex_raffle

Changes at the last moment,