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  1. I only knew about these three listed here. https://www.ataricompendium.com/game_library/easter_eggs/a48/a48pharaohscurse.html I knew about them way before the web was a thing. Maybe I read about it on a bbs back in the day.
  2. Al, Can I get some stickers? I am sure I live close and will pick them up, lol.
  3. Kay, That's a real bummer to hear, but I guess you did what you could.
  4. Are you aware you are replying to and asking on a 15 year old post? Any particular reason you are replying to posts from over a decade ago?
  5. This made me laugh as most of my equipment was bought back in the day, and it was not cheap. LOL. I think the problem now is too many of those picker shows, or storage war shows on tv. Everyone thinks they are going to get rich reselling things online.
  6. Am I the only one who thought we were talking about the 400?
  7. So I am going to go out in left field here, but how about a recording of the closing of the cart door on an 800? Or the sounds of an 810 or 1050 mech both when you first put a disk in, and maybe as it's reading data. All these game sound suggestions are good, but some physical sounds are part of the experience for me.
  8. Not sure about all of them but I have an MPP-1000E (300 baud) that connects via joystick ports. Funny story, but when we first picked it up and started using it for my BBS we discovered that it had no way to hang up the line, so the caller to the BBS could effectively hold it hostage if they didn't hang up from their end. So we contacted MPP and they got back with us. They designed a hangup circuit for the modem, sent us the parts and the schematic to install it. They also sent the instructions that we needed to modify the BBS code to initiate the hangup if I remember right. My father was a radar technician so that afternoon we were in business with a modem that could now hang up the line. That's the kind of story you would never hear about these days.
  9. Oh no... Rest in peace Curt. You will be missed.
  10. Thanks for the link. Mylar has been ordered. I will give that a try first. It will be a few weeks before I can even attempt it though, but at least I have one on the way.
  11. I have had one for years and years and today was actually the first time I ever fired it up. Having a problem with the keyboard. When it boots to Basic, the break key, Shift B, and Ctrl K are the only key combos that seem to be recognized and they only move the cursor down one line. When I go into the diagnostics, ram and sound pass, but the keyboard doesn't recognize anything, including the above key combos. Not sure how it would recognize at least some kind of keypress in Basic, but absolutely nothing in the keyboard test. Anyone have any initial thoughts? I took the back off the keyboard being careful with the ribbon connector and don't see anything visually bad on the keyboard controller board.
  12. If you can find a Wico joystick, you will have a family heirloom.
  13. Don't know about Carmel, but I am still here. Pop in every now and then to check on things. My 1050 has a US Doubler in it. Always wanted a Happy Drive, but was pleased with the Doubler.
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