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  2. Posted

    I bought a 1040STf at the beginning of the pandemic, give me something to do if I had lost my job (Luckily I was considered essential) have had a lot of fun with it, mostly bought it to play the old Sierra games on (Have most of them now) and got a little carried away with it, had to buy an upscaler, the original mouse and got 2 other mice too, one is a Logitech with an adapter, and the other is a moue with a amiga/ST switch.  All 3 work, but mostly use the original since it looks like the rest of the PC.

     

    Have over 200 floppy disks for it now, drive works great and only about 10  have been bad so far, have 5 NOS boxes that haven't even opened yet.  I looked at the STE when I was looking to buy one, but for the money they were going for, I should have bought one, would have saved me on the upscaler.

     

    Here is a picture of it, has grown a lot since this was taken.

    20200701_175729.jpg

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    53 minutes ago, bradhig1 said:

    When my sister first moved here and we started visiting her.  There was a store at the Great Mall of the Grand Plains called Gameco and they got bought by Vintage Stock.  The Metcalf location was a Gamco as well.  There is a store in St. Louis called Slackers that I used to shop at that is also a retrogames store and they didn't put price tags on the labels.

    There was one in KC MO, Gameco KC.  Had lots of 2600 games and everything else there. Traded a genisis with a bunch of games for an 800xl. Looks like they didn't survive the virus though. Shows permanently closed.

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    12 hours ago, bradhig1 said:

    Vintage Stock in Overland Park.   They have tons of Atari 2600 carts in the back. They even put ET in the case when they have it.

    I live down the street from there. The other spot they have 2600 games is against a pillar. If you need combat they have around 20 copies

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    It takes time... sometimes longer, MUCH longer than we would like it to take.

    Believe it or not, you're kind of lucky to be getting gearing up now, as new things are being introduced, you'll not have to re-purchase 'replacement items'.

    You may even find that in a month or two, you might decide to go a different expansion path.

     

    Good choice on the XB and EA! Those are the two of the most important original cartridges out there (IMHO).

     

     

    This is true, and I do have about 25 games, plus a few XB games I can load to play, so I have lots occupied till the right expansion comes along.

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    started out on an 8088 back in 84, and was strictly PC till about 97 when I got a Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. To be honest, have no interest in old PCs (Outside of the TI99/4A I just picked up) I still enjoy the games, bought several from GOG and they play just like I remember them, I used to love tinkering with them, reading books about PCs to get them most out of them, all that good stuff, but honestly just want to play now. Guess it's because I work on them every day has something to do with it. I can understand the respect for old systems especially the early ones like the 8088 and 286 those cases were like a tank (and kind of looked like one too) but me personally, dosbox is all I need for my old PC fix.

  13. Posted

    After playing around with classic99 and Win994a, and finding this area of the site, I had to get a real system again, and learned a lot reading post. Heck I didn't even know they were still making hardware and software for this 35 year old system still, would love to get a PEB, but shipping puts it out of my price range, but getting a nano-peb soon. thank you all for all the info posted over the last few years that I'm still sifting through.

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    Must be one of those rare Commodore 64s made by Texas Instruments, like that Atari II/e or the Apple 800XL

     

    "This is the "history of the Computer Industry" and anyone in the Business, might enjoy it for a "statement piece" in their office....or ...home..?"

     

    Shouldn't you know the history of the computer industry before saying "This is the history of the computer industry"? just a thought.

     

     

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    Don't know if this has been asked, but I have 3 power supplies for the TI. the huge wall wart one, and two of the newer ones with the brick in the middle, one has the extra extension on the plug, Which one should I use? they all have the same part number and seem to have all the same voltage, just don't want to destroy the system so I'm asking the experts here. :) Thanks for your help.

  19. Posted

    The early 82 keyboards are great--when a key starts sticking or double-tripping, just pop the offending key's cap and clean it gently with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol. . .

     

    And you can be sure of the manufacture date by looking on the bottom. You should find an LTA or an ATA down there followed by four numbers. The first two are the week and the second two are the year.

     

    thanks for that tip, a couple of the keys do that. LTA1982 is the code on the bottom, so looks like first week of May 82

  25. Posted

    deal, give me a couple of weeks, say the 15th, to get money together (bills and all), let me know cost on shipping, and how do you want to handle the money part, I do have paypal.

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