Found a true Heavy Sixer in the wild, but paid too much

[Cassidy Nolen]

Hi all,

 

The atari-dar was running today when I was coming home. Hit the thrift store, and bang, a heavy sixer. Complete with book and LeGato Ca. address labels on the power supply and case. This is a 77 sears model. What a neat thing to start the weekend off. I will fire it up tomorrow and shake the dust out.

 

Bad part, paid 25 bucks, and it did not include a game....Win some, lose some. If you think I was going to leave a heavy sixer in the wild, you're out of your mind, at any price!!!

 

Cassidy

[King Atari]

Lucky.

[Doc4]

Yeah I found a heavy sixer just the other day "in the wild" at a thrift store I had never been to. I was $7 bucks, had two crappy torn up controllers included (which I left) and no power supply. The store owner told me he didn't think it would work but when I got home, lo and behold, it did! The power switch is real worn and glides smoothly instead of click and I have to hold it in place for a second for it to work. (anyone know how to fix this?) But I couldn't just leave it there. They also had a Texas Instruments video/computer machine, like the old Atari 400's (just the keyboard deal) but I didn't get it. If anyone is interested I can pick it up and send it to you. I'm certain it works. I found some games for the TI as well at the Salvation Army and other places too. Real cheap.

[Stella'sGhost]

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Originally posted by Monster greifen an:

I found some games for the TI as well at the Salvation Army and other places too. Real cheap.

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I love the TI, but Ive never seen any games in the wild, not since the late 80's. I got a TI in 1983, I learned basic on it and wrote some games with animated sprites . What games did you find for it?

[Doc4]

nothing spectacular that I can remember. If your looking for something I can check I only found like 10 total games. I can doube check sometime soon and fill you in.

[+-^CrossBow^-]

umm..TI carts are everywhere to be found here. Let me know what your looking for and I can see what I can find and get some pricing. Usually the run the standard $1 each type deal.

 

Monster Greif...on your power switch it can be fixed pretty easily. You have to actually remove the cover from the Atari and then either use some needle nose pliers or a small screwdriver to seperate the metal plate from the switch assembly. You know what I mean...the little tabs which hold the aluminum top half of the switch assembly together. Bend the tabs away from the bottom half of the switch and then the whole top half comes right off. You need to reform the metal strips inside...there are two. Basically from use they have gotten flatten down and need to be bent downwards a bit. While your at it...you might as well break out some alcohol and clean the metal contact strips and the metal contact points on the lower half of the switch. They are usually brown and icky looking.

 

After doing this you can hold the upper half of the switch assembly down and then with the other hand use the pliers or whatever to bend the tabs back under the base of the switch to hold the cover in place. Viola!...switch like new.

[Doc4]

Wow! That's incredible. Thanks for the tip. I will be getting right on it. Do you happen to know where I can find replacement switches (the metal part that sticks out of the atari top cover?) I have an Atari with a broken one. Thanks again!

[ATARIPITBULL]

$25 bucks For a true heavy-sixer I think is a good price, you know if it was on ebay it would have went of at least $50.00.

[Stella'sGhost]

I'm not collecting for the TI right now, I was just wondering what games they were. I know they are pretty common and are cheap too, Ill get back into the TI after I get more atari games, maybe sooner who knows.