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Hey guys, I'm looking for an inexpensive laptop or netbook so I can browse the net and maybe play a few old games while laying in bed with the wife. She has a Macbook so I'm just looking for something I can use so I don't have to keep browsing on my phone. Doesn't have to be new or fancy, just curious if someone has something affordable they're looking to ditch. I live in Canada, so if it's terribly heavy shipping from the US will be not great. Thanks!

I'm working on my retro PC build right now actually, I'll pull the specs when I get home. It's awesome to see so many people on this board into it! My biggest challenge is finding a bloody case that will work. I want a period-correct case, but around my neck of the woods they're a pain to find. And yes, I am very OCD about having things period-specific. I'm weird.

That's just fantastic, what great work you're doing! Watching your channel really made me wish I had grown up in that era. I've always been really interested in the 80's.

Is there a link to the channel somewhere? Sorry it's off topic, I just want to see the fruits of your labour!

Yes, sorry I should have stated in the description, it's a 3.5 inch drive. Thanks!

Hey all, My internal floppy drive on my vintage gaming rig decided to puke, so I need a replacement. I could to to eBay, but I prefer to deal with people here first. Anyone have an internal 3.5" floppy drive they don't need? Thanks! (Added the size of drive I need, thanks Osgeld!)

Sold me a Dreamcast VMU, and it went super. Awesome seller, great communication!

Would you consider selling the R4 card separately? I already have a DS Lite from a member here, but I've been looking for a flash cart to run homebrew. I just don't like the idea that every flash cart site out there wants a credit card.

Damn, that's a heck of a price. Curse me for deciding to have a wedding coming up

Great link, thanks much! Interesting to see so many other games, peripherals, and paper products along with the ET carts. So it was more than just ET carts that got dumped? I wonder why...

I took the description as more of a joke than anything. I'm not any kind of expert (nor even that smart), but it seems strange that a company would simply bury so much stock to make room, or even if it wasn't selling. It would be one of the first times I have ever really heard of a company just throwing out that much of any product because it was overstocked, warehouse needed emptying, etc. To me it seems there's more to the story that we may never know.

You simply do not want the Shatner door-kicking your home at 2AM demanding to know why you scammed us hapless folks on Atari Age. It will end in tears for everyone! (I don't know whose in charge of pinning things, and I hardly want to ask for my own topic to be pinned, but this could be useful to at least direct people to so we don't have to answer the same question a hundred times every day.) I saw a spreadsheet recently in a sale post, and it did remind me of how irritating and awkward they are to browse. Not a good selling tool!

If you paste the list of carts in your post, I can almost guarantee people will be more interested. And it's best to keep sale discussions on PM's here at the forums, keeps everything tidier and easier to track. Shameless personal thread plug for some easy tips on moving your goods faster: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/222489-tips-for-selling-on-atariage-and-beyond/

3,000 years ago no one imagined the pot sitting on the shelf in their home would be worth anything. Now archaeologists hunt for such artifacts and seek to catalog them. Or the woman who recorded thousands of news broadcasts over several decades. What people think in the present has no value, does not mean in the future it will continue to have no value. I already have sketched out a few ideas for organizing data that spans many types and genres. I believe there is a system that can be worked out to make sense of the data. Of course, there are issues of copyright and such. That is something that I am still considering. This topic is more of a discussion than a statement of intention to pursue such a project. Naturally there would be much data that is either inappropriate to archive (porn for instance). But I think there could still be valuable data to save for future generations. You don't know for sure that something as innocuous as a school report would mean nothing 100, 500, even a thousand years from now. Who knows what the world will look like then, and who can know what data will have been preserved and studied when we're all brains floating in jars Perhaps this project is better in theory than practice, and if that's the case then that is okay! It's just me musing (sort of) out loud.

Well I'm not an expert, I was just musing out loud I suppose

So they would have use for a project like this? If so it would be an interesting thing to take on I think, but I imagine my biggest challenge would be just getting my hands on the floppy disks.

Hey folks, Anyone have one of those USB floppy drives they'd be interested in parting with? I'm transferring files from floppies, and I have an old HP machine that I've been using but the floppy drive seems to be fixing to die, and it would be much more simple to have the files on my main machine instead of transferring them to my old machine, then to my new one. I know I can get them on eBay and such, but I like to buy from members here sooner than strangers on eBay.

Recently I got about 25 floppy disks from a friend who said he found them in his grandfathers basement, who had recently passed away. My friend asked if I could pull any data from them and save it, which I did. What I ended up finding was really interesting, there was old software, archives of short stories his grandfather had written, a few games, his grandfather even had lots of letters that he had typed up from the handwritten ones he had sent his wife when they were dating almost 60 years ago. Really awesome stuff, and it kind of bit me with a bug to keep finding these floppy disks and save the data from being destroyed. Who knows what some of those old floppies may contain! I'm interested in saving and archiving the interesting data on the disks so it doesn't get lost forever. Now obviously there are a few challenges for this. Firstly, personal data. Some people may be concerned over what may be on old floppy disks, and to that I can only say that any personal data such as financial information, sensitive data, etc would be destroyed and not saved into the archive. The second challenge is simply getting the floppy disks. As I would quickly run out of money to pay for the floppies, they would be more on a donation basis, I would pay the shipping to get the floppies here. If the sender was interested in the information from the floppy disks, I would make a download archive available to them, or send them a CD with the data for a very slight fee to cover the CD cost. The goal of this project would to save data and make it available to everyone in a web-based archive. I'm not interested in stealing anything, making money, etc. As floppy disks physically degrade we're losing our chances to save bits of history from being lots, and that to me is a shame. I don't know if I necessarily am even able to handle a project like this, but I would be very interested in trying. Which is where I would need help. Primarily it would be needing help simply with acquiring floppy disks. Whether you guys know of people that have old ones, see them at thrift shops or garage sales, or even have them in your own homes, I would need help simply acquiring the actual disks. That leads me to my ultimate question: do you guys think a project like this would be worth it? Or do the Internet Archives negate this as a foolish idea? Their projects seem focused only on the actual software, as opposed to whatever other files may be stashed on floppy disks (user written programs, art, etc), whereas I'm interested in preserving whatever may be on the floppy disks. To me I think it could be a useful, cool project to save floppies before they vanish forever. Then again, it could be a very dumb idea and I simply am blind. What do you guys think?

I would almost picture a Star Wars collector to be more interested in this than a video game collector.

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I'd like to think I personally am worth much more when all my parts are attached. Two disembodied legs are hardly as useful to me as two legs firmly attached to my body.

That's just awesome, I love it! I don't like to casually toss out definitive's, but I have to say you're probably one of a very few using hardware that old as your daily machine. Also, when I clicked the picture to make it larger, I noticed the cat and pissed myself for a moment.

I think it looks cool, actually. He states in the Kickstarter description that he is trying his best to contact the various publishers and get their permission, but like he said due to the age lots of them have simply vanished without a trace. Personally, I like the idea of a truly retro art coffee-table book.

Okay sweet, I'll check it out thanks!

Personally my plan is stipulate someone who will sell it for fair market value, and give the money to my wife if I am gone before she is. If not, than the money would go to my family. After all, I'm dead! And I'm pretty sure the Good Lord won't let me take my Atari through the Pearly Gates. (But it'd be rad if He did)