cj7hawk
Veteran Member
So I get a nice computer arrive, good price, two 360K disk drives installed... Nice ! I'm looking forward to this even if the computer is broken and can't be repaired.
Then it arrives and I look. It's like somene wrapped it in plain thin card and a single layer of bubble wrap... As I peel it away, my worst fears... The drive latches are completely unprotected, and it's obvious this thing has been dropped directly onto the drive latches, which protrude well outside of the case. One is cracked and both are pushed all the way into the drive fascia with enough force that the drives have been twisted in the case despite being fully fixed in place. The bubble wrap and card is clearly imprinted with the shape of the drive latch where it was dropped into the drive latches.. More likely thrown by the courier. A 10Kg console, smashed down onto the latches.
Neither latch can move and the drive itself is so buckled that even a diskette can't be installed.
Not to mention the case looks like it was thrown from a moving vehicle ! It's buckled and twisted.
These things get described with words like "Premier" and "Rare" and I know that much is click bait often, but yeah, they are rare and people who buy them actually want to receive them intact... Water ingress, dirt, the occasionaly carcass... These are normal. But why oh why do we get entire computer consoles shipped in brown card wrapping without any protection for protruding parts?
The back of the computer survived mostly intact so it looks like it didn't get dropped on that side, though the plastic covers of ports are all cracked, but that I can live with... Why oh why did they destroy the drive latches???? Not even a this way up or a fragile sticker in sight...
Another computer destroyed forever by Fedex! I can only hope at least Ebay refund it, which sucks, because despite some surface grime, the computer ( A PC-8801 ) looks to be in pretty good condition before the couriers destroyed it.
Then it arrives and I look. It's like somene wrapped it in plain thin card and a single layer of bubble wrap... As I peel it away, my worst fears... The drive latches are completely unprotected, and it's obvious this thing has been dropped directly onto the drive latches, which protrude well outside of the case. One is cracked and both are pushed all the way into the drive fascia with enough force that the drives have been twisted in the case despite being fully fixed in place. The bubble wrap and card is clearly imprinted with the shape of the drive latch where it was dropped into the drive latches.. More likely thrown by the courier. A 10Kg console, smashed down onto the latches.
Neither latch can move and the drive itself is so buckled that even a diskette can't be installed.
Not to mention the case looks like it was thrown from a moving vehicle ! It's buckled and twisted.
These things get described with words like "Premier" and "Rare" and I know that much is click bait often, but yeah, they are rare and people who buy them actually want to receive them intact... Water ingress, dirt, the occasionaly carcass... These are normal. But why oh why do we get entire computer consoles shipped in brown card wrapping without any protection for protruding parts?
The back of the computer survived mostly intact so it looks like it didn't get dropped on that side, though the plastic covers of ports are all cracked, but that I can live with... Why oh why did they destroy the drive latches???? Not even a this way up or a fragile sticker in sight...
Another computer destroyed forever by Fedex! I can only hope at least Ebay refund it, which sucks, because despite some surface grime, the computer ( A PC-8801 ) looks to be in pretty good condition before the couriers destroyed it.