Well in a last minute romp over to Oakdale (CA) I found a few goodies
to add to my collection. A thrift store (located on F Street, FYI) had
a good selection that day AND a 1/2 price sale!
What I picked up:
An Atari 800; always liked this machine, good resolution, fun games
and FOUR joystick ports. I popped open the cartridge cover before
purchasing to discover the BASIC cart ws in it. After getting it home I
found it was loaded with 48k of RAM, now all I have to do is start
looking for a power supply and other peripherals to go with it (if it
works). Can't wait till I find star raiders and all those other cool
games I saw at store displays years back. This is a divergence from my
mainly Commodore collection but prices are pretty tempting nowadays...
(at least there is something good about the intel/microsoft hype).
Vectrex Game system, looks kinda grimey and no joystick, but does
power up with the space mines game, already found a few resources on the
'net but not the pinouts for the joystick yet.
A Commodore Greenline Calculator WITH the power supply. A nice
compliment to the two Minutemans (a model 6 and 6X) and the rechargable
one (which I have to still figure out if the rechargable batteries are
still good.)
What I left behind:
A Commodore Plus/4 (computer, power supply and books located at
various locations around the store.) I have a couple already, that
should be enough.
A Beige TI 99/4a (in box w/power supply, $20.) They also had an extra
TI 99/4a keyboard assembly for about $5... Tandy 2000 (keyboard priced
separately from CPU), then the usual monochrome monitors, Atari
joysticks, etc...
Also... I just uploaded some new stuff to my web page!
So step rrrrright up and see the amazing Commodore Collection of Larry
Anderson, a rare glimpse at a Commodore P-500 Computer, A few notes on
the Commodore PET, and what happened at the last Silicon Realms BBS
Gaming/Gathering! just go to:
http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare
Larry Anderson
Received on Thu Apr 03 1997 - 22:30:27 BST