The lucky new owner in this giveaway took ownership of a classic Commodore system and
did not even have to pay for shipping, (like my Gold Planet Saving Patreon Members).

Wait! Did you actually give a vintage Commodore 128 Computer System away?

Yes and here is why I'll do it again.

I don't like that too many old computers end up in landfills because their
owners do not know how to keep them working or they consider them obsolete.

Rather than see them go to a landfill and pollute the earth,
I choose to repair and restore vintage or retro style computers to go to new owners!

I also plan to let my upgraded computers sell on eBay for very little to keep your costs low!

It's my unique way of advertising for new members to join me as Patreon Channel Supporters.

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1st to know about Giveaways, Patreon Members get other Special Bonuses!

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Of course you don't have to donate that way, if you still want to help you can
simply join the fun by sending your vintage computer items to:

Attn: ComputerPro2000
ComputerHobbyShop
C/O Richard A. McFarland
P.O.Box 383
Saint Anthony, Idaho 83445

I make sure that all computers I get go to a good home and not a landfill.

Unlike some fan tech sites, I turn nothing legal away, then the magic happens!

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You'll find more retro posts in my RANDOM ACCESS FILE:



My Retro Time Machine takes you back to cool things in the tech world... there and back again!

Thanks to Mac fans in Japan who made a helpful SE/30 repair guide long ago.
See how I saved the same helpful retro post from the now defunct Japanese Website!


SE/30 Repair guide. (Saved from defunct Japanese Website)!

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See feedback from some previously sold posts.

Because I'm serious about you saving a lot, all crossed out sale prices   =   a 10% to 20% lower best offer.



Anyone remember HyperCard? I have future videos coming on Card Stacks I made.

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Here is a stranger thing!
I ordered parts from Amazon and look what happened...

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Emulator News!
ComputerHobbyShop has posted a new video.
A Forgotten Windows Mac Emulator Helps My Macintosh LC II Live Again!

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See new videos posted on the
ComputerHobbyShop YouTube Channel.

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Hobby News!
ComputerHobbyShop has a brand new recreated SE/30 Logic Board.
Update: The boards are now here and more details + a rebuild video can be posted soon on my

YouTube Channel.

[Any retro computer video creator can email me by this link, if interested in a collaboration video].

Will there be a

Click to see what I heard today.

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Crazy News!!

YouTuber dismisses vintage Apple 1 motherboard as "not going to be worth anything to anyone"

Also, Are People Really Making Millions with Virtual Real Estate & NFTs?

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What's Coming Soon!

Future post, a Vintage Quadra 700 restored, upgraded with modified StartUp.

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Reviews and News

An AMD Ryzen Review and recommended X570 ASROCK Motherboard.

Counting cores and straining to max CPU speeds is the familiar task for anyone needing more power at less cost. The good news is, the AMD Ryzen can check off all the boxes for the serious power user while staying far away from the higher cost of a Threadripper Workstation. You can save with compatible motherboards & the latest BIOS.

What specific CPU do I recommend? I give a 5 Star Score to the AMD Ryzen 7 3800X.

It is simply the best CPU this side of an expensive workstation. You'll get the most bang for your buck while still seeing shorter compile times and faster project completions, especially when matched with an X570 ASROCK Steel Legend. A 2700 with a B450M motherboard from htcgo worked great and a 3800X and X570 Motherboard gave us an added speed bump. If this posted review sounds like a commercial for AMD, they do deserve all this praise.
All my tests made me happy to endorse the Ryzen 3800X. AMD has a real winning CPU here.


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A+ Upgraded Gaming PC Warrantied by Dell

The winner saved over $2,400 because he knew early!
What, you didn't know about this? Sorry, but the best way to not miss out
is to subscribe to get notified early about new upgraded PC posts!

My Intel Core i7, 12M Cache, up to 4.00 GHz CPU Gaming PC,
actually has an upgraded AMD 8GB Discrete Graphics Video Card.
The image below is a summary, click it to load the very long full image.

Finished reading? Click here to see how it sold on eBay.

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Sorry you missed my very nice,
Blue 7th Gen 32GB Apple iPod touch! Below are the technical specs from Apple.com.

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Previous post, a Refurbished Super Fast MacBook Pro!

An Apple Intel Core i5 with Storage updated
to a brand new 2021 SSD.



I spent the money shown above
to make a better MacBook Pro for you.



Here's your chance to help the planet by
buying a Green Earth & Eco-Friendly Laptop



Installing and updating Catalina went
fast with the upgraded 16GB RAM.



Ports shown left to right are, 1 Magesafe
Power Jack, 1 Ethernet, 1 Firewire 800,
1 Thunderbolt 2, 2 USB 3.0, a Camera
Card Reader, & Headphone Jack



There is plenty of space left in this
Brand New Western Digital 480GB SSD.



You'll love using the working DVD Drive for
movies + moving music CDs to iTunes.



After getting the message below, I
finished installing all current updates.



It lid opens and closes easy & hinges work great.



In almost every review regarding the best laptops, this Macbook Pro is always the main challenger.
Supported by an Intel i5 processor with a speed of 3 GHz Boost and 2.5 GHz base, [upgraded with 16 GB] DDR3 RAM,
Intel HD Graphics 4000, and support for up to 2TB of hard disk memory
this laptop is one of the best laptops of all time.
(Tech Reviews, Oct 29, 2020).


This MacBook Pro comes with a brand new
Magsafe charger as shown below.



Besides coming with iTunes you also get Pages,
(Apple's app like MS Word)



Plus Keynote, another Apple app,
(like MS PowerPoint)



And Apple's Numbers app,
(a program like MS Excel).



You can use a power saving 4K TV,
or you might want to use any standard HDTV,
but you don't need it for the Mac laptop to work.



Refurbished for Richard's ComputerHobbyShop.com by



The seller is licensed.


See my great feedback below.

Fast & Free! Ships by USPS Priority Mail

(International buyers see eBay Global Shipping)

See the password info below for the buyer.

eBay item pricing does not consider upgrades and
values fluctuate wildly on eBay & cannot be guaranteed.

In preparing ad, eBay posted this chart.

Below is an eBay search to compare
price & value of 3 similar sold Laptops.

Below is a value checker I created for you.

Thank you for buying my Green Earth Eco-Friendly MacBook Pro
with RAM & Storage updated to 2021 Specs on eBay.

Finished reading this? Click here to see the eBay summary.

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December Christmas PC Laptop Deal

     See who bought this HP EliteBook that sold for hundreds of $$$ less than when new...


Originally it cost over $1,000.00 when new, but I asked only $125.00.

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New studies now show that most people trend to view websites via mobile devices.

I'm rebelling against trends with my favorite way to surf the net. My PC connects to a large screen 4K TV and I didn't have to spend large on a second screen with a previous model 50" Vizio Family Home Theater/Game Room HDTV. It even supports a max of 1080p resolution.
Surprisingly, it is as much fun to use as my newer 4K TV.



I use it for website editing on both Macs and PCs as it has 3 HDMI ports, like a newer 4K HDTV.



It also has VGA & Composite Video ports for older game machines. I've also used it on a Mac mini and
Mac Pro plus an Apple TV and my Gaming PC too. It has 1080P resolution and a newer Vizio has 4K.

(Shout out to Vizio! Sponsor a review here of your TVs to increase TVs sold as PC monitors).

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Details are posted for my MacBook Air that sold very fast for $300 less than normal...
Not to rub it in, but the savings missed was on a pretty 2015 Custom Apple Core i7 shown below.



ComputerPro2000 sold it very fast where eBay & PayPal also offer a 30 day money-back guarantee.

To not miss another great deal, you can subscribe to be notified before deals go live!

You can also go to my Patreon posts.

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Sorry, you missed this great Apple Laptop. Just sold is my Intel Core i5 MacBook Pro



I upgraded this 13" MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and a fast 480GB SSD.
If you missed this one, you can still join my Patreon Members here,
or to my last Model 9,2 MacBook Pro on eBay.

Next time don't count on luck, you can subscribe to be notified before anything goes live!

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Wow, that last post for a green earth PC finished at 44 bids!
When we work hard we'll want to take a break to play a few games too! Here is a nice DSi XL.


To prep it for sale, a simple video demos this DSi XL Console!

Honorable mention goes to naymare-7, who just purchased this on eBay. For him or anyone else interested, here's good news about this DSi XL. If you want to install a lot more fun stuff, I found a video with links to websites, that shows you how to mod it for root access. It seems a lot of people are doing that and you can essentially jail break it to load more games and unlock a lot more of it's features than was previously possible when softmodding this DSi XL console. Although I have not done this yet, it sounds like a lot of fun, which is why I built this hobby website to begin with. I'll see you next time. Won't that be fun!

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In case anyone else wants to know, I received a question on my Dell Intel Core i5 with Fast SSD Drive.
eBayer kevigadsde_0 wanted to know, ... 'will your computer be able to hook up to my hdmi tv or [does it have to] be a computer montior?' I replied, 'No problem, you just need a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter. You could also adapt DVI to HDMI, but trust me, DisplayPort to HDMI is better ... the adapters are cheap, as found on eBay...'
I have converted this PC from "BuyItNow" to an auction and it is at $9.95 at the time of this post.

What, you didn't get to bid? Sorry if you missed it! Don't want to miss out again?
To be among the 1st to know subscribe below and if you like games, you're sure to have fun here!

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I never thought I'd see 2020. I was born around the time that Sputnik was launched into space.



I remeber the late 50s and early 60s were times when many thought the earth would be destroyed by nuclear war. But today the trend is more towards Arctic ecosystems protection from oil spills and black carbon emissions.



I grew up on a farm & fought for the preservation of wild life. This attitude of a green earth was new to many people, but I followed it into my future work with computers and I just made
a Green Earth PC Project for 2020.

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12/30/2019: My last post on eBay for 2019 is where I upgraded a Dell Intel Core i5 with a Fast SSD Drive. It now boots faster into Windows using less power! I also has a new WD Black 1 TB Hard Drive for website graphics, data backups & maybe even a games library too. It was a lot of fun to refurbish. Click the image for more details.
Happy New Year!



I think you would have liked how fast I made it.

So you won't miss out again, subscribe below and you can be among the 1st to know.
This was my last carefully refurbished project from my last post in 2019. See you in 2020!

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12/11/2019: Here's feedback from one I helped on the December 4th post, 'Refurbished Intel Core i7s'.

(I think he meant to say, "transaction", but his main point is still clear)....
He bought 3 of my PCs from my post last week and he's very happy!
I'm glad, but so more people get a chance, in the future I'd ask followers to only buy once per post.

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12/4/2019: On this date, I've been refurbishing used PCs & Macs just for the fun of it and
I've just finished 4 PCs and 1 Mac. See the Refurbished Intel Core i7s listed below.

Here an entire PC can sell for less than just the CPU might sell for alone.


Open a new widow to show my Intel Core i7 Dell PC for example....

Click to see the original details and to be among the 1st to know, click the subscribe button below.

And if you like Apple computers, then here is a Mac mini you should see....

Click to see the original post or be among the 1st to know, click subscribe below.

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RAM's RANDOM ACCESS FILE:

Do you know?

What IBM geeks used to gather in User's Groups to help each other out with mainframe issues?

ANSWER ... SHARE was a 1955 group of aerospace industry users of IBM mainframes and is the oldest group still active. Most all of those once popular user's groups & club meetings have long since moved to the Internet as 'THE' source of help.

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When Amazon sponsors it, I can help you look for a good tech job.
Many tech oriented jobs exist with
"specific goals & strategic openings for students".

Tech workers who speak a second language are needed as the demand for bilingual workers is rising.



When I taught tech seminars, it was with all expenses paid as I had traved to teach a thousand + clients
in the lower 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii + Canada. Traveling trainers get served by a lot of flight attendants.



I always enjoyed traveling, especially to share my best tech ideas.
My success helping people has encouraged me to post on this site and share my expert skills!



Eventually, live seminars became less popular than the Internet and times changed.
More and more IT work was local and I'd get reviews like past and present ones posted below.



I later worked daily as a Technical Trainer for the U.S. Dept. of Labor.


There, the real challenge seemed to be getting people to beleive in what they can do!

It was shut down when Covid-19 hit in early 2020.

For a future post, is there any retro Gamer's machine you'd like to hear about? Let me know by email.

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