ScuzzBlog: Diaries August 2019 Entry 11th August 2019: Post 01: Words is one thing. Words is one thing. Tub horror. So there I am wading thro disk box after disk box trying to find the illusive disk four of the Wordworth V1 set for the Amiga. I know I had the disks somewhere. Nothing for it but to get heavy and so I ventured onto the Amiga shelves and pulled my boxed version of the software. Shock horror and no disks inside. Next up I fired up the A4000/040 and checked the archive. I found the respective disk but it was on its own and there was no set for Wordworth V.1. All the others up to V.5 were there but not the set I wanted. Next I started sifting through my photo logs but couldn't find anything. Onto the website and there on the page for serious software was the box and the set of disks. [ scratches head ]. It was then that I realised that I had another boxed set and it was ...... DEEP SIGH ! In the store tubs. Bugga. What to do .. What to do. This had suddenly become a big job. Man do I hate the tubs... takes for ever to move them about. Anyway nothing for it but to get on with shifting the tubs. Took most of the afternoon but I did it. I found the box and the disks and have now copied them to the A4000d. I also found what is probably the rarest thing I have in the collection. More on that tomorrow. Suffice to say all is back stored and tidy and I have the disks that I needed. And why Wordworth ? No real reason. Just came to me in a flash while looking at other things. I was intrigued as to how it performed relative to the other versions. I am going to install it on an A500 and see ... tomorrow. I did take some picks which are a bit blurred cus of I wasn't using a tripod. Anyway, I've dug out some old pictures of the store area to give you a taste of what 'tub horror' is all about. Who would have thought that retro computers could be such a physically tiring activity. Words is one thing... doing is another. Words is one thing. First seven pictures are from today Scuse the shaky camera work. So what's on the brown box ? Clue .. Probably the rarest Commodore I have. Previously on scuzzblog Archive footage I make no apologies for the state of boxes. Like I say its the way they came. Wish it were different That's a Famicom Disk System there Most of the items are on sturdy shelves I hate stacking boxes. They always get damaged Up the ladders and looking down see what I am searching for. A can see the Sharp but not the Amstrads Half these things I have never used Atari boxes are always so big No luck there Looks like I have to peel away some of the layers Nope Mouse Pad and really really old mouse OK fish the camera down the gaps and see if I can see the Amstrads Took me ages to store the stuff Some boxes are more obvious than others as to the contents inside Always tempted to open up... Resist A PS1 control connector. Looks like the Terminator's arm stranded and lost. I have no idea what is in that box That's the Aquarius I was looking for How do I get that out I have a feeling that is a BBC in that box Struggling with the camera between boxes That's an Evesham classic PC on the left XBOX v Playstation.. Always look after your boxes. Very important So many Toshiba MSX units Checkmate Need to remember where I kept the Enterprise. I have two... The Toshiba also came in a kit box Losing sight of my challenge here OK at this point I found the two Amstrads they were behind that Yamaha [ silver thing ] I also found the A500 motherboard albeit I realise now that the board is a broken one and the Plus that was in the box got used. Never mind Two seriously amazing bits of kit there Think I've found everything now

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