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Interested in the Cassette Recorder and if you can find the Overlays, I'll take the Intellivision Flashback.

Coming in a longbox format was the kicker for me. Went for it!

I’ll take one. Been wanting to play around with one for a while. Sending PM.

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Correct with me. Just let me know when you are ready for me to pay. Thanks for doing this.

I was looking and over the years I realized I picked up almost all of these. I would like a copy of VAX if you still have one available since I seem to have the rest.

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Sent PM.

So are you charging Ebay price or were you saying you were offering them for less? Just clarifying, not judging either way.

I'll take it.

Nice. I am going to try to get everything pulled and cleaned tonight. I'll leave those off on the first test. Heck, maybe they are causing an issue.

Thanks a bunch. It is hard to find this information clearly defined. I know those sockets have those thin, brown piece under them (or at least two of them). Anyone know what those actually do and if they are required under just the Smartwriter chips or are they under them all?

Thanks both of you for the advice. I have it apart so I'll give it a really good clean with isopropyl. Are the Proms the one with the heatsinks on them or are they the ones that are four in a line? I just bought some detoxit and I applied it to the Colecovision slot and some of my carts and that works well to make the port more consistant. I'll try it on all of the pins since I have it available. I get a bit nervous using detoxit on the board itself so I'll just use the isopropyl for that. On another note, I already built a new power supply and I have tested all of the inputs both from the power supply and from the wires coming into the system and they look right, so at least power should be good. Also, I did try each of the data drive separately, but they don't do anything. I still think it is because the system is not really getting to the boot section on the Adam. Both drives could be bad, but I'd bet if I can get it to boot to Smartwriter, they will start working. Thanks all!

Hi, all. I have an Adam I am working on and the Colecovision side is working fine. I can put in a cartridge and get it right up to play. However, I can't get the Adam side to boot. It just make a noise with a black screen and even after resetting, it stays that way. I have to Data Drives, but neither try to do anything. I am thinking maybe the boot rom on that side is bad since it should at least boot into that typewriter program, right? Any advice would be helpful. I have pulled and reseated all of the possible chips that are in sockets and I don't see any obvious signs of corrosion. Thanks in advance.