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  1. Good point--those flyers are likely the rarest items in the lot. I'll have to scan them in at some point and put them on archive.org.
  2. Finished sorting most of the floppies and manuals. That box of manuals is packed thick and tall and heavy! Check out that early stylus. Also found among the stuff: eight brand new 120mb Superdisks, AOL floppy, tons of flyers from vintage local computer stores (386sx systems, etc).
  3. This was another CL wild goose chase pretty badly timed since I am moving soon and didn't need 10 file boxes to deal with. Still, I had to rescue this trove of late 80s and early 90s PC educational software--with quite a few games tossed in--that came from a defunct reading clinic. Everything was carefully stored in file folders and in many cases the disks were placed in envelopes, likely only copied once and never used. Every disk in that picture also had a manual in mint condition (not pictured). Several boxes to go through still. I'm hoping somebody over at the Kyroflux forums will be willing to preserve these educational disks because many are quite obscure. As many of you know, educational software was rarely coveted at copy parties back in the day.
  4. Ah, that's right, I dimly remember that mod. I assume the main reason would be to use the flip side without needing a disk notcher.
  5. This 3rd party dual drive was in a CoCo 3 lot I purchased recently. I never had a CoCo back in the day and wondered what the two switches were on the front, some sort of mod for density support or? I was able to load up a disk just fine with one of the drives.
  6. That lot of five I posted from Computer Hut Software, I think those titles are actually Spectral Associates games rebranded(?) or bootlegged(?) or? When I Google those titles Spectral Associates is what comes up. Maybe I should update the auction listing to include that speculation.
  7. I never owned a Coco back in the day but found two lots recently in my area at prices I couldn't resist, with the latest having a number of tape titles. Unfortunately the tape drive doesn't work so I was going to put these on eBay but was wondering whether it was worth the trouble to piece any of them out, or just sell as one lot. I searched this forum and found that Coco rarity guides don't really exist, which I find odd because it was such a popular system. This system also came with a Speech pak and I took the trouble to type in the basic code to make it talk and it sounds pretty good, better than "SAM" on the C64 in my opinion. Edit: Orange tape on the bottom is Math Tutor
  8. I recently got some 8" floppy disks for Ohio Scientic computers, with Feb 1981 stamped on them (and © 1978 on the ink label itself). I mailed them to an OSI enthusiast who successfully transferred them to emulator format. I was amazed and delighted, but in this case the disks had been in climate-controlled storage since 1989.
  9. Tunnels of Doom Hunt the Wumpus Slymoids Alpiner Parsec Munchman Indoor Soccer Return to Pirates Isle I can recall how thrilled I was to learn about the SHIFT 838 keyboard cheat you could use on the title screen of the TI-brand games.
  10. Here's another boxed Air Raid found the wild. No manual. I had a chance to see this in person but was afraid I would sneeze on it, so I passed.
  11. Sweet! Glad to hear this baby is alive and kicking again. I never would have had the time/room/equipment to resurrect it so I'm glad it got into the right hands.
  12. I booted the MSTE hard drive system disk from http://www.atari.org/services/systemdisks.php and put the hard disk PRG in the auto folder as the manual instructed, then rebooted. Still no hard disk icon (but there is a more constant HDD light) and now with the hard disk driver the A: drive loads up folders with gibberish titles [see attachment]. Also discovered that the ESC key on the keyboard seems not to work. It may sound like I'm tapping out early, but I lack the workspace and time for a project of this scope. Anyone in Southern California want to come by and take this over for a fair price?
  13. Doh! I got it turn on today but it does not show a hard disk icon. The hard disk does make some initial noise two or three times while flashing its light, but after a couple of minutes on a white screen, the system asks for a floppy. I cancel that request and see the desktop with two floppy icons, but no HDD icon. ;( The original owner said the HDD was filled with software so I'm guessing that if the system is not starting from HDD, I have a problem. It is hard to believe he would have only been starting it from floppies, right? Any suggestions for the next course of actions?
  14. I bought a big lot of vintage computer software and hardware today with the crown jewel being this Mega STE. I've used STs and 400/800s before but never this fellow. I haven't even turned it on yet. The owner said it runs TOS 2.05 and should be working. It looks like there are a couple of external hard drives but those may be for the ST, yeah? Assuming the Mega STE works, is there an easy way I can make a backup of the entire hard drive image? I have old SCSI cards and what not...some way perhaps to make a "dumb" sector-by-sector copy of it in case the HW fails?
  15. Somebody paid $1,400 for my copy of Ultima I: The Original, and the losing bidder told me he tried to bid more but his Internet connection flaked out. Hardcore collectors lose sleep at night knowing they're missing a title they've been seeking for years. So $500, $1000 is a small price to fill the void and bring them comfort.
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