Muzz73

I know... :^\ I saw a few things in there that I'd like to have, myself, but I can't get anywhere near him before he has to move. :^(

Hello all! A friend of mine is moving in less than 1 week and needs to let A LOT of his stuff go ASAP. There are hours posted in the message below, but he has told me that if someone needs to meet up at a different time, he is flexible and you'd just need to contact him. His email address is: rockotiger@gmail.com Here is the treasure trove of stuff, as emailed to me: an itemized list and a link to the Craigs List ad with pics. https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sys/d/anaheim-vintage-retro-computers-crts/7738285452.html I'm letting go of most of my vintage/retro computers and electronics as I'm moving soon! The sale will be this weekend: Saturday, April 20 - 9am to 4pm Sunday, April 21 10am to 4pm Browse or buy early by appointment 9am to 8pm Wednesday, Thursday and Friday The Sale will be at: 1401 N Batavia St Orange, CA 92867 CRTs: 5" Panasonic B&W TV & FM Radio $10 14" Sony PVM-14N5U - $200 20" Sony PVM-20M4U HR Trinitron CRT Monitor - $700 20" Sony KV-20TS27 - $120 11" Panasonic CT-1111D $80 12" Zenith ZVM-121 (Green Monochrome) $80 12" Zenith ZVM-123A (Green Monochrome) $80 15" Commodore 1070 Analog RGB Monitor for Amiga Computers - $100 14" Commodore 1084S-D1 Stereo RGB & Composite Monitor for Amiga or C64 - $200 14" Commodore 1960 MultiSync RGB & VGA Monitor - $300 14" Compaq VGA Monitor & PS/2 Compaq Keyboard & Compaq 486 Motherboard, RAM & HDD - $100 17" Compaq 7550 1600x1200 VGA input Flat CRT Monitor + Original Box $150 Goldstar ViewMax VHS Cassette Player & 5" Color CRT Portable - $100 Unisys Mini Pentium 133MHz PC 32MB RAM Win98 KB/Mouse/Monitor - $150 Asus Eee-Top All-in-One Touchscreen PC (Windows XP) + Keyboard & Mouse $80 Commodore PC40-III 286 PC with Commodore Keyboard - $200 Poqet PC Handheld IBM Clone 8088 MS-DOS 3.3 Computer (with box & adapters) - $200 Compaq Presario 5528 All-in-One Pentium Multi-Media PC with Original Accessories - $200 Gateway 2000 486DX/33MHz Windows 95 PC - $100 LAPTOPS: Toshiba T1200 Early Laptop - $20 Gateway 2000 Colorbook 486 Laptop with matching laptop bag + AC Adapter - $40 Other laptops - $10 and up Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 64K with Box, book, joystick, & Audio Spectrum Analyzer Cart - $100 APPLE II COMPUTERS: Apple IIc + 9" Monochrome Monitor + Imagewriter II + Manuals & disks - $300 Apple IIgs Computer with Upgrades! - $350 Apple IIe - Complete but needs Power Supply to be repaired or replaced - $50 COMPACT MACS: Macintosh Plus + Keyboard + Mouse + Manual - Has issues - $50 OTHER MACS: Performa 475 + 13" Apple M1212 Trinitron CRT (CRT has been re-capped) + Keyboard + Mouse + SCSI SSD - $400 Power Macintosh 6500 + Keyboard & Mouse - Needs re-cap - $50 Power Macintosh G4 500MHz, 1.5GB RAM, 9GB SCSI, SuperDrive, Zip100 + KB & Mouse - $100 Original 2006 Mac Pro with 2x Dual-Core Xeon 2.66GHz, 32GB RAM + Keyboard + Mouse - $100 iMacs: Original Bondi Blue iMac G3 + Keyoard & Mouse - $150 Snow iMac G3 600MHz + Keyboard & Mouse - $150 iMac G4 800MHz + Keyboard & Mouse - $100 I have some Commodore 64 computers and probably a few 1541 drives. Amiga 500 not working for parts - $50 Nintendo Super Famicom with Original Box, 2 Controllers, AV Cable, SD2SNES loaded with all SNES & SFC Games. Also includes Hard-sided Carrying Case. - $200 Boxed Software for PC, Mac, Amiga and C64 - $5 to $10 CD Software in Jewel cases for PC or Mac - $1 each Computer and video game books - $1 each Wyse WY-55 Data Terminal - $40 Heathkit Terminal H19A - $200 Lear Siegler LSI ADM-3A Terminal - $200 Smith Corona Manual Typewriter circa 1950 WORKS - $100 Brother portable typewriter with extra ribbons - $10 Western Electric and other Landline Phones - $10 Each Technics Digital Organ Musical Keyboard & MIDI Sequencer - $20 Texas Instruments Speak & Spell - $10 Commodore Adding Machines - $20 each Calculators - $1 each Early Calculators with VFD Display - $5 Digital Cameras - $5 and up LCD Monitors - $5 Radio Shack Realistic APM-200 Audio Power Meter - $100 Routers - $5 PDAs - $1 to $10 Joysticks - $1 Computer Speakers - $5 to $10 USB Computer Keyboards - $1 Mechanical USB Keyboards - $10 PS/2 Computer Keyboards - $1 USB, PS/2 or Serial Computer Mouses - $1 USB Gaming Mouse - $10 Apple ADB or USB Mouse - $5 Apple ADB or USB Keyboard $5 to $20 Radio Shack Catalogs - $1 each Sears Catalogs - $1 Each Cassette Recorders - $5 VGA Cables - $1 DVI Cables - $1 Composite video cables - $1 Apple 8 Pin Serial Cables - $1 Apple ADB Cables - $1

Seriously! It took me decades to get my hands on one! I finally had to bring one over from the UK, which I believe was your suggestion... wasn't it? Anyhow, fun machine for sure! 👍

"Hey, taxi... pad four, please."😊 That's reaching back a ways! This will be great on the A8! I am waiting with baited breath (Pew)!

1. The Atari 400 2. The Amiga 3. The Lazarus Cool story!👍

Oh yeah, you're totally right... I was just sighting early examples in the industry when no particular platform was "industry standard" yet. I didn't mention multi I/O cards on the PC because I was focusing on the machines that were available when the early Macs, ST's, etc. had hit the market at large. When I built my first XT back in the 80's, that was what I had to deal with; eight slots, most of them full just to get basic functionality out of the thing. When I built my first 286, that was a different story... "You mean I can have two serial, a parallel, a game port, high density floppy control AND RLL hard disks off of one 16-bit card?! Whoa!!!" LOL

Absolutely. A whole lot of people went PC crazy over here when there were far better choices available that did a lot more for a lot less (basically anything that wasn't a DOS PC). Almost as if we (in the USA) were the only ones who didn't "get it." It reminds me of the war between VHS and Betamax - Betamax was superior in practically every way, but VHS is what caught on. There are a few parallels there if you look for them. I used to have the argument with my PC user friends wherein they would scoff at whatever computer I had at the time and tell me that theirs had all these expansion slots. It used to burn their backsides when I would point out that you would have to fill all of them to do what my my C=64/IIgs/ST/Amiga/Mac (not necessarily in that order) did right out of the box. Back then, the PC was kind of a silly concept... "OK, here's this bus. Oh, you want to hook up a monitor? That'll take one card slot. You want a floppy drive controller? Another card slot. Serial? Parallel? Game ports? There go three more." That still doesn't even consider a hard disk controller, a trashy sound card or anything auxiliary. I didn't include any of my ][+ or //e machines from back in the day above because some of the basic functionality did have to come from bus slots, but at least you could hook up a monitor, a cassette recorder and a joystick to get started.

Yep... I came across an odd 810 in a wooden case a few years back, which I gave to a friend who had no FDD. I was buying something from Bruce and mentioned this drive in an e-mail. He confirmed that he had built 810's to order in whatever cases he could find that would fit and that it definitely sounded like one of his. I kind of wish I still had it... 🤔

Yikes! I thought SCSI was around commercially a year or two before that. My mistake. At that time I had a C=64 w/datasette, so even a cruddy 1541 was a dream.

A standard HDD interface (ANSI SCSI)!

Yes. This. 👍

I really hope so... we, the global community of Atarians need both of them.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever... 😊

I use the PSU from an Atari 810 FDD on my 400. Same power supply but heavier duty. If memory serves (which doesn't always happen), it is a 50w power supply as opposed to the original 18w unit that came with the 400 & 800 back in the day. Best Electronics and B&C Computervisions (myatari on ebay) have them NOS.

I'd like to throw Typhoon Thompson into the mix. 😊