That one thing you gave away or sold... :tears:

[dudeslife]

Xetec Lt.Kernal 20 Meg HD for the c64.

 

:_(

[RickR]

Boxed Atari 1030 modem.

[Aquaman]

My C64, 1541 diskdrive, Tapedeck, Powercartridge, Expert Cartridge and lots and lots of software

[am1933]

My Atar 800XL with 1050, 1010, graphics tablet, printer and a load of original software-and all to buy a Commodore 128???????

[+save2600]

My original and entire TI-99/4A collection that I thought would be going to a good home. How wrong I was.

[jaybird3rd]

I regret selling the TI 99/4A that I was given as my first computer. I used the money to buy an Atari 800 system (which I still have), so it didn't go to waste, but even though I've picked up several replacement 99/4A systems since then, I'd still love to have my original system back. I also picked up an Atari Falcon030 years ago with 14MB of RAM and a good IDE hard drive, but it developed a problem that I couldn't fix at the time, so I sold it to another collector. I could probably fix it myself today, and it would be worth a lot more than what I sold it for. I also regret taking apart my father's old Sinclair ZX80 computer, which would be probably be worth some money today.

[bobotech]

My entire Atari 8 bit collection back then. Traded it for a cool motorcycle but still, I would love to have my original systems back.

[dudeslife]

My Atar 800XL with 1050, 1010, graphics tablet, printer and a load of original software-and all to buy a Commodore 128???????

 

 

I see no problem with this if you still have the C128.

[Omega-TI]

My original TI-99/4A... especially because it had a CorComp Triple Tech card inside. I'd like to get another one, but at the 'bend you over and rape you' prices, it's not gonna happen.

[RickR]

My original and entire TI-99/4A collection that I thought would be going to a good home. How wrong I was.

Where did it end up?

[+save2600]

Where did it end up?

Wanted my son to have it, so gave it to the ex-wife who never set it up. Says she left it in her grandparents attic, somewhere in OH. Who knows where it is now.

[RickR]

Wanted my son to have it, so gave it to the ex-wife who never set it up. Says she left it in her grandparents attic, somewhere in OH. Who knows where it is now.

Oh dude, that sucks. Big time.

[BassGuitari]

When I was 10, my parents got me my first computer of my very own, a 286 something or other from a rummage sale. It was probably at least 10 years old at the time (~1995), but my dad had a new 3.5" floppy drive and hard disk put in, and even hooked me up with a new keyboard, an old Okidata printer, and a sweet Magnavox amber monitor. For a year or so I used the hell out of that thing. I wrote school papers and stories (I wanted to be a writer at the time) on it, and my best friend had an old disk full of ASCII games, including a version of Pac-Man that looked a LOT like Pac-Gal/Pac-Girl, but with some differences (you could select the number of ghosts and it had a high score table). Then somewhere along the way I lost interest and the system -and the games disk- got sold in a rummage sale of our own. I actually changed my mind about selling it, but not before my folks agreed to hold it for a "customer" who was returning with the $200 they were asking for it (which was still probably less than they put into it). But the computer was a great experience; I learned a lot about DOS and structure of file systems, the basics of using essential productivity applications, and I learned a hard life lesson about not being a shitty seller.

I was bummed when it sold, but I got over it pretty quickly. That is, until I started collecting vintage computers. To this day, I haven't been able to track down any info about the game disk. From what I've researched and what I remember, it had to have been some kind of custom version of Friendlyware. It had the same menu system (with a Texas address displayed on it), and the games were a mix of the ones on the different Friendlyware games disks. Except Pac-Man was not Friendlyware Pac-Man, but more like Pac-Gal with extra features. I remember it also had Battleship, Frogger (which never ran right on my system), one of those Towers of Hanoi games, and a bunch of other ones my friend and I never played because we were playing Pac-Man and Battleship.

Man, I'd love to have that rig back. Or at least a copy of the games disk to run on my Compaq Portable.

[bobotech]

Oh wow, that brings back memories of the nineties. Do you guys remember in the nineties places like grocery stores started selling public domain/shareware floppies. They had all sorts of shareware or freeware games and utilities on them. They usually were plain labeled floppies. For some reason, blue fonts on white labels sounds vaguely families. They had these cardboard floppy stands in the aisles

[MarkO]

In 1987, I put my Apple //c, with LCD Flat Screen, 9" Green Monitor and its stand, along with a Prairie Power Pack with a sealed Lead Acid battery on consignment, so I could buy the parts for an IBM AT 16Mhz clone..

 

I should have save up my money for the IBM AT Clone, and kept the Apple //c...

 

MarkO

[+slx]

Sold an Amstrad dual drive PCW8256 for 1€ to free up space and gave away a 1980s RGB monitor for the same reason. As I forgot the details for the monitor I am lucky not to know whether it would have fit the bill when I needed a monitor for a newly acquired C128.

 

Had to hand over my Atari 800 to relatives when I got an ST, when I got it back most of the books (Compute! Books, etc.) were gone.

 

Never had the same feelings for PCs and PC components. Just donated my last PC (built by myself in 2002) to a charity.

[Dripfree]

Gave away my apple IIgs when my parents got us a pentium 100. I actually missed the apple very quick. I could finally play Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem like the rest of my friends. I never felt connected to a computer the way I did to that apple. I honestly think I took on this hobby to get a piece of that back.