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Looks nice and sharp! I'd love to not need rf on my 6er, but I just don't have the heart to mod it. I have the skills, that's not a problem, it's the thought of modding it, I'd much prefer to keep it as pristine as I can...

I got quite a few 8-bit ones... You can easily rip them with foobar2000 and a plugin from their website. It works pretty well, and it reads roms from genesis, sms, NES and SNES.

Sorry, no pics... Sunnyvale heavy 6r, no switch or empty switch hole on the back, just the controller jacks, power and video. The label on the bottom reads 55055J, and the serial number inside reads 273S7746. That would be the 46th week 1977, early November. Am I right?

Given that, since the thread started we've had a whole new tv series start, should they start focusing on the new series? Or maybe something altogether new, in which Hasselhoff comes back to take revenge on this new kid for taking his show away? Think the possibilities!

Lol... So easy! I should've thought of that. Thanks!

I've recently found a copy of "name this game" on a thrift store, it's even the beveled case type... I was very excited! I brought it home, and as soon as I sat it on my desk, the label fell off, nice and clean :-( There's some glue residue on the cart, and the label is fairly clean. Do you guys know of any particular tricks, any type of glue, something that would help me put the label back in place without damaging it?

It has been setup as a dos only box. I noted the 810 drive is a late one with a data separater board and a separate head amplifier board. I was wondering what that extra board on thew wrong side of the 810 side board was... The 2nd slot wasn't used for much anyway. The 800 board is fully populated with all cards. The spare 800 mother board looks complete. the cards that go in to it from front to back are: Personality board or rom board. it is the one with the 3 24pin chips and several logic chips. 1st ram slot. This one MUST have ram in it. Atari made 2 sizes, 8K and 16K 2nd ram slot. This one was also used to put extra ram in that was banked switched. this was a 3rd party device made by Axlon 3rd ram slot. There was a 3rd party 80 column board that want into this slot The 2nd slot had to have 32K in it. Processor slot. 3 40pin chips and a logic chip The first 4 slots could be accessible under a removable top because when the 800 was first made, Ram was very expensive and could be upgraded as needed. But as usual, ram price dropped and latter ones were sold with 48K. The ram card on the spare 800 board has something hanging off of it. could you take a pic of that please? James Thanks for the additional info!. I'll get a close shot of the ram cards. The other ram cards also have that "something" hanging from it. My friend mentioned that he added additional memory to the cards, I'll get additional details on that today. Someone else in the thread guessed correctly, the extra board connected to the floppy is indeed a "happy" mod.

No, actually, what happened is that, during one of the times atari was sold, one of their distributors had a warehouse full of stuff that they decided to empty out. My friend went there and bought out and purchased all that you see in the pics.... The board came without the second connector, so it could have been considered a "defective" board

This is the box as it sits on the floor.... it's quite heavy! With the cover removed. Note the extra fan added on the far left. It's not running right now, I haven't tried fixing it yet, but it's wired to run when you turn the whole thing on. Close-up of the main board, with the three memory modules, plus the OS (on the bottom) and an unknown board on the top. Not sure what it's supposed to do, but it has a potentiometer attached to it. All the spare boards I have... there seems to be enough to just about put another 800 together. Here's the floppy drive, not sure which model. I don't actually have the power supply for it, but I plugged the main one in and it worked. I'll just have to dig a 9V unit out. Here's a close-up of the main board. Notice that it only has one connector for the cart slot, so chances are this board is for a 400, not a 800. Can anybody tell me if a cart would plug directly into the connector, or am I missing parts? This spare board does have the 2 connectors, but I don't know if it works. I might try to put this one in the box and see if it powers on. and here's a screenshot, to prove that the whole thing works. My brother in law is looking for his collection of floppies. Hopefully he'll have either a DOS or a BASIC floppy. I also have more pictures if anybody is curious about what is what in here. From what I can tell, I have spares for the OS, memory and "strange board with potentiometer", plus power boards for the 800 and the floppy

and yeah, I'll add the pictures tomorrow morning :-)

Some parts of the FAQ listed above (thanks Mimo!) indicated certain basic commands to load programs... So, do I need basic to do anything with the 800? Or just having DOS will do? All that I get when I turn the machine on is the Memo Pad, and I'm able to type in it, but that's all. I do have some extra expansion cards that I haven't tested yet, maybe one of them will have the "built-in" basic I've heard mentioned somewhere?

Hi! A co-worker of mine recently gave me a box full of treasure... A box full of atari 800 hardware parts! He even went as far as putting some of the parts together into a working 800 model, inside of a big and heavy wooden box (gives a whole new meaning to "heavy sixer"). I probably have the biggest atari 800 in existence! It actually works just fine, it turns on and displays the memo pad, but it seems to be missing some components (such as the cart slots). The other thing it is missing is a knowledgeable owner ... The "box" has a disk drive "built-in", but I don't have any floppies for it, and even if I did, I wouldn't know how to load it. I do know someone who has quite a collection of software in floppies and disks, so, assuming that I can borrow some of the floppies, what are the basics of loading it up? Is there a FAQ somewhere that explains the process? Anybody can help this very excited new atari owner?