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  1. That's what I was thinking but I got a chance to sit down and mess with it today, unplugged the audio input jack from the board and checked and it was still shorted, turns out it is the jack itself so I was wrong the other day. I tried connecting an audio source straight to the board bypassing the jack and still got nothing. I'm thinking the shorted jack must have burned out something in the audio circuit. I don't know enough about it to go any farther so I'll just let it be and use external speakers.
  2. I just discovered that the audio input on the monitor is completely shorted, zero ohms. That can't be right can it? I'm glad I didn't fry my Atari's audio circuit by connecting it up to it. I desoldered the audio jack to make sure the problem wasn't in it but it was still shorted. That probably explains the buzzing. I wonder where the problem is, bad capacitor maybe?
  3. Thanks, I am using the cable I was previously using on a different TV with the 800 so it's good, and I also tested the Amdek monitor with another audio source but got nothing, not even a crackle. From the loud buzzing I'm afraid some component has gone bad. I also tested plugging in some headphones to the front jack but all they do is buzz too. I have an old pair of yellowed PC speakers that I guess I'll just have to use with it but it's really disappointing.
  4. I just got this monitor for my 800 and I'm also getting no sound at all, just a loud buzzing sound when the volume is up. I wonder if this is due to the grounding problem that someone mentioned. Unfortunately I don't have a mono adapter to test it with at the moment but I'm hoping it's as simple as getting one to fix it. I tried pushing the stereo plug I have in only part way and still got nothing but buzzing so I'm a bit worried. I wonder why they didn't just use a normal RCA jack for the audio. Edit: I took the back off and connected my audio directly to the wires, nothing. All I get is the buzz sound, so I don't know what to do now.
  5. Yeah, I'll believe it when I read an official statement. It's not the real Atari anyway, just Infogrames with the Atari brand slapped on it.
  6. I'm glad I always kept all my old computer junk. I still have my USR V.Everything external modem which makes it extra special because it is not only a vintage modem but my modem, the one I used back in the late 90s when 56k was the cutting edge. Yeah if I got something like a Kaypro II I'm sure I would load up some old word processors with the idea that I'm actually going to do productive things with it. Play some text adventures and join a BBS, but it would be just like when I got my Atari 800 online. I signed up for a BBS and spent a few weeks checking in every day and posting messages and then I just got bored of it. It's nostalgic for a while and fun to learn old stuff but the modern internet is much more entertaining. Old computers and consoles feels kind of like Pokemon; I want to collect them all but once I have them they're just cluttering up the place and taking up space. Retro stuff is way too expensive now anyway but it's still fun to window shop on eBay and look at all the photos of cool stuff I'll never have. ?
  7. I'm fairly sure the TRS-80 Model III was the first computer I ever saw or used, there being several in the library of my elementary school. I wish I could say that was when I fell in love with computers but as I recall I didn't really have much interest in them at all at the time; they were just another machine they had at school for us to do boring lessons on. They sometimes let us play Space Invaders so I knew they had games, but the idea of having a computer at home never occurred to me any more than having a mimeograph machine. I wouldn't be introduced to home computers until my aunt got a Zenith 286 PC.
  8. Unfortunately it isn't mine, just one I found a picture of. I'd love to see inside it also; that seems like a huge amount of memory for a TI-99.
  9. I've never seen this before, it looks like it's printed right on the case. I assume this is a third party modification and not an official model.
  10. If you just want to test it to see if the console works any RCA cable will do, but ideally you need a shielded RF cable like the one from the Atari 2600 to get the best picture, otherwise you will have snowy picture due to interference. Atariage sells shielded cables and the F adapters if you don't have any but I imagine you can buy them almost anywhere that sells electronics. https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=941 I recommend testing the Colecovision's power brick before you plug it into the console to make sure it is outputting the appropriate voltages.
  11. Thanks, I enjoyed the video. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Star Trek - The Promethean Prophecy were the first two adventure games I can remember playing. It was at a friend's house on his father's IBM PC. I didn't realize it was released on the TI-99/4A though but I guess it was available on pretty much every computer there ever was. I have a boxed copy of it for my Atari 800.
  12. I maybe misremembering about them being PS/2s, I'm not sure exactly what they were other than they were IBMs and they came with both Windows 3.1 and OS/2 preinstalled.
  13. Mine doesn't go back very far, sadly I missed out on the whole BBS era. I was running Windows 98 on my very first PC when we finally got the internet. My first modem was the crappy internal winmodem in my Compaq Presario, but I soon upgraded it to my second and final modem, a US Robotics Courier V.Everything 56k external. I still have that modem out in storage. A few years after that our ISP started offering DSL and that was the end of my dial-up era.
  14. Around 94 I think is when they replaced them. I don't believe any of my friends cared much about computers. They were all about Nintendo and Sega consoles, and the people that did have computers at home were probably using Windows PCs by that time and maybe thought of the Apple II as worthless outdated junk; they just weren't old enough yet for anyone to be nostalgic for them. That and the fact that they didn't really advertise to anyone that they were getting rid of them other than piling them out in the parking lot and putting up signs for the students to read. If it had at least been in the newspaper I'm sure more people would have taken them.
  15. In elementary school we had TRS-80 Model 4s in the library. I wasn't really interested in computers at the time, they were just those machines at school they made you do work on. When I started high school they originally had Apple IIs (I don't remember which model exactly) but midway through they all got upgraded to IBM PS/2s. What makes me really sad is they tried to give away all those Apple II computers and no one wanted them, not even me at the time. I'm guessing most of them ended up going to the dump.
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