Weekend Finds

From: Isaac Davis <idavis_at_comland.com>
Date: Mon May 5 23:20:04 1997

I went on a little shopping spree this weekend, and actually managed to find
some stuff this weekend. It seems every garage sale in the north Austin
area is nothing but junk, but I finally managed to find a little place with
some of everything. I asked the guy if they had any atari stuff, joysticks
or games, and he told me to follow him to the back. He had a box full of
joysticks, and other assorted junk. I picked up the box and some other
carts for my 2600 for $40. When I got home, I dug every thing out, and this
is what I found.
1) Odessey2 with joysticks attached. But no power supply. Anyone know the
voltage and polarity for this old thing? Of course no cartridges either,
but maybe next time.
2) Mattel Aquarius with box, manual, and cassette cables and software.
3) About 20 atari 2600 carts, most of them were ones I had been looking for
like air/sea battle. I don't really want to collect rare carts, just the
ones I had when I was a kid.
4) Coleco Gemini Video Game System. It plays atari 2600 cartridges, and it
turns on, but the screen stays black. No clue, and I don't really have the
electronic equipment or knowledge to fix it. I might let my dad check it
out. He's a radar technician with a lot of equipment. Maybe I should get
him to teach me.
5) An 8-track tape - Spotlight the greatest hits of Gene Pitney, Del
Shannon, and Tommy Roe. I'm debating whether or not to dig out the 8-track
player.
6) Assorted pile of power supplies. They look like they are for assorted
answering machines.
7) An Atari 1010 cassette recorder.
8) A piece of telephone testing equipment I think. Has a switch (tone, off,
pulse), a telephone plug, and two wires with alligator clips. I think it's
for tracing telephone wires.
9) A pile of Atari joysticks, a coleco joystick, and a couple of various
cartridges for assorted systems, none of which I own. Maybe that's the
incentive I need. "I've got a cartridge honey, I could really use this old
obsolete computer to make sure it works. You don't want to see this
cartridge go to waste do you dear??"

All in all it was a decent haul for me. This place is only open for 6 hours
on the first saturday of the month, so I was lucky to even get in the place.
I saw a ti-99/4a, but already spending $40 was pushing it for me. Maybe
next month I will get to the back again and dig for more treasure.
Isaac Davis
idavis_at_comland.com
indavis_at_juno.com
Received on Mon May 05 1997 - 23:20:04 BST