In my attic there's a Rio Central. I've used it briefly, but not recently, but we never really had space for it. I've not checked to see whether it still works, but, similar to Sipho, I'll put it up here for auction.

Here's the deal: highest bid here by the end of October gets the item. Buyer pays postage separately. You can either give the money to RobS (and show me proof), or you can give me the money (and I'll prove that I gave it to RobS) for the fund.

Bids in GBP. Payment in that day's equivalent in USD, CAD or EUR. Long-standing BBS members only, otherwise I'd have gone through eBay.

I also have a replacement power supply which might be useful if it suffers from PSU whine.

People might be more likely to bid if you can confirm whether its in working order and what condition its in. At the moment its worth £20 to me!

I remember the one and only time I saw one in use, in an acoustic music restaurant/venue in Philadelphia, serenading the bar. I started chatting up the bartender about how I had one of those in my car, but he only half understood.

Regardless, it's worth 50 pounds for Rob to me.

OK, I up the ante. GBP 75.00

I bid GBP 100.00.

-Peter

Hi Roger,

how hard is it to replace the PSU?

-Peter

...and if you don't have one of these, there's bads of room for a generic +12v / +5v PSU (it makes all its other rails from these voltages). Do check the voltages coming out of the PSU before replacing it though, ISTR there was some heinous silkscreen mislabelling on the central main board (like 12v labeled as 5v and vice versa or something). Might have just been the dev units though... even though they maybe outnumbered the production ones

I suspect +12v/+5v @ enough to power HDD and CDROM (then add 500mA to each for the main board/display power) would do fine.

Hugo

4 days to go...

Last day. You've got 8 hours until the end of October (obviously I was going to use GMT), otherwise dr_dos gets it for £100.

Although, that does make my life easier, 'cos I only have to ship it to Europe...