Apologies if this post is unwelcome, but I wanted to bring to members' attention an unusual 6502 system I have up on eBay: the LJ Electronics Tina.

It came to me from a radio fair, after being in use at an MOD site. Designed and built in the UK, the Tina is as far as I know unique in its design: absolutely everything is broken out, and there's a bank of banana-plug compatible GPIOs at the side which go nicely with the +-12/+-5 volt bench-top power supply built into the top. It has BASIC and a machine-code monitor in ROM, and is pretty unique: I've enquired about the device with the National Museum of Computing and the Centre for Computing History, and neither have seen or heard of one before.

Happily, I've got a second child on the way - but sadly that means that the rather bulky Tina has to go, hence the listing on eBay. If it could go to a loving home, that would make me very happy; I recently sold a heavily upgraded Dragon 64 to someone who decided to break it up for parts, which made me extremely sad.

Again, apologies if this post is unwelcome - just wanted to bring the machine to the attention of an audience of fellow enthusiasts while I still could!

Looks like a great system, sorry about the Dragon64, had I known about it and allowed to buy it it wouldn't have been broken up for parts. That's just sad.
Would you ship the Tina to Norway if I decided to bid? I have no idea what the shipping would be but it can't possibly be near what DHL charged me for shipping a harp from UK to Norway a while ago.. ouch!

I could certainly ship to Norway: for the size and weight of the parcel, it would be around £35 insured via Parcel Force Priority International - not that much more than it will cost to post to someone in the UK, really!

Yeah, I was very disappointed about the Dragon: it belonged to a radio ham who died a few years back. He'd owned it from new, and upgraded it considerably: transplanted it to a metal desktop case, built an external keyboard with numeric pad, added twin 3.5" floppy drives, RS232 ports, double the RAM to 64KB and added a Cumana DOS ROM with physical switch on the rear to flip between that and the stock ROM. It was lovely, but as I'm moving from a spacious home office to half the master bedroom there was no way I could keep it!

Hm, ebay won't let me bid.. if I try I just get a big red warning about not shipping to Norway, and the current bid doesn't get updated. Is that something new from ebay?

-Tor

Ah, looks like because I didn't specify international postage eBay has taken that to mean that I want international bidders to be blocked - which wasn't my intention. Apparently, if you let me know your eBay ID I can add it to a list of users who can bid despite the block - then you should be able to bid on any of my auctions whether or not international postage has been added.

I sent the ebay ID via PM.
Hm, the Dragon sounds like a description of the dream Dragon.. I used a borrowed Dragon32 for some time back in the eighties.

-Tor

Aha - looks like the exemption list method works! If any other international members would like to bid, PM me your eBay ID and I can add an exemption and confirm postage charges for you.

No problem. It's about getting 6502 equipment into the hands of someone who will appreciate it, thus promoting our common interest. If someone were being a pest by frequently using the forum for free advertising, especially if they included non-6502-related products, that would be a problem. Mike does accept paid 6502-related advertising to put in the blue banner at the top.

_________________
http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

As the auction is long gone and the photo can't be seen, and as I saw one at the weekend, here's a photo: