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I doubt there would be any noticable difference between the two methods. Either way, you're using a tuner to demodulate.

Won't work. You need an intermediary, such as an old VCR, to demodulate the signal.

As it happens, the 'Show Us Your Collection' forum already allows unlimited editing so people can update thier photos, so we don't have to bother Al with this this. Good riddance, photobucket. I've uploaded all the pix directly to AA so I think it's all working now. The photobucket issue also affected some other collection images I'd posted prior to starting this stick-it-on-a-bookcase system, so just to get them all in one basket, here are pictures of my Pong systems, handhelds/tabletops, and 3rd party joysticks. A few of these items were duplicated on one of the bookcase photos, but that's the way life goes. Pong: Handhelds: Joysticks:

I see I've been bit by photobucket's cash grab attempt. I'll repost the pix once I figure out how to edit the older posts.

I'm in!

With classic gaming/computing stuff thin on the ground these days, I've been on a bit of a vintage audio kick lately. Was pleased to find this 1970 Sansui amp/tuner (AU-999/TU-999) combo for $14 ($10 each less my 30% geezer discount). Needs a bit of cleaning and some of the lamps on the tuner replaced, but seems to work fine. People ask stupid prices for these on ebay: $250+ for the tuner and $400+ for a working amp.

I'm hoping the Switch leads to a flood of cheap used 3DS systems coming on the market, as I've been looking to pick one up recently.

I was there early Saturday - thanks for your hard work putting this on. Think you'll do it again someday?

I'll be ordering one of these for Sure!

#5, baby!

I've got one, and about 40 games for it. I actually enjoyed playing with it for awhile, though the games are mostly generic knockoffs and I got bored with it eventually. The combination of a larger screen and a bendy body (not all models had that) made it more comfortable to use than the original gameboy. Didn't have the TV hookup thingy, though.

I'm switching to updating every time I fill a shelf, rather than waiting until I've acquired a full bookcase worth of stuff. So here's shelf 1 of what might eventually be bookcase #46. Garage sale season is off to a pretty good start, as I picked up almost all this stuff in the last 3 weeks or so.

According to Mayhem's C64 site, the Atrax carts for Commodore were legitimate and properly licensed, so I'd assume the same is true for the Atari versions.

I'd prefer you keep the auction format. Just doing some random searching for common terms on ebay (like 'red' or 'the'), it looks like auctions account for only about 3% of total listings, but 30% of sales, meaning items listed for auction are much more likely to sell. Of course it also means that the vast majority of BIN listings are overpriced - would be nice to have a mechanism for tossing those bandwidth-wasters out.

As long as you don't adopt ebay's the-seller-is-always-wrong philosophy, I'll be happy. And don't include shipping cost in fee calculations - sellers shouldn't lose money (or have to overcharge just to break even) on shipping. Actually, come to think about it, just do the opposite of nearly every change ebay has implemented in the last 5-10 years and you should be good.

I'm a collector/hoarder, with ~230 different TI carts in my collection. For daily use, however, I almost exclusively use multicarts for both convenience and to save wear on the originals and my TI. Might invest in a Flash unit in the future but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

My PEB mostly is used for the 32K RAM so many programs require, and if I ever get an alternative RAM expansion I'll likely retire the box. OTOH, it's one of the nicest looking pieces of vintage tech I own so it might stay on the desktop even if not connected.

Bookcase 45 finally filled! Given my current acquisition rate, I'm fairly certain this will be the last full bookcase I show - any future updates will probably be a shelf at a time. Lots of Xbox, PS2, Wii, NDS, and GBA stuff still to be had in the wild, but very few 'classic' items. None of this came from ebay. Everything shown here is newly acquired except the X'eye (forgot that one when shooting the Genesis collection), and the calculator. Calculators are a sidebar collection of mine and this old Friden electro-mechanical is one of my favorites. Not a lot of play value to it, although asking it to divide by zero can be exciting (ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk ad infinitum).

Does yours include the catalog number and trademark notations? If so, it would reinforce the idea that these were corporate made and maybe lend some credence to the built-on-demand story. A picture of your label would be nice...

Oh sure, those are fairly common and I've got several of them. The OP said his was just a plain white file label, which I assumed to be similar to what I showed. It seems unlikely to me that it's just a user-made replacement label since it includes the ®, and catalog numbers - most users wouldn't bother with those, but a Radio Shack store would. *edit* stupid autocorrect changes my parenthetical into actual copyright and trademark symbols.

Hmmm, the assemble-on-demand story might well be BS, as I was just repeating what I'd been told. OTOH, the only plain-white-label coco cart I own (see photo) doesn't mention the coco3 so that can't be the only reason, either.

After the Coco market crashed, Radio Shack was no longer spending money on assembling, labelling, and packaging the carts, but a customer could walk into a store, ask for a game, and it would be assembled on site and a label (and manual, I suppose) printed on store equipment. Or so I was told. I never heard that there were any changes for coco3 compatibility.

One thing TI could have done differently is to have not so royally pissed off Jack Tramiel that he set out to (and succeeded) destroy TI's computer operations. It would have been interesting to see how it worked out for the 99/4A (and 99/8 etc) if that hadn't happened.

Regardless of which online site you sell through, if you take Paypal you're open to the same buyer scams as on ebay, since Paypal's policies for returns, refunds, and shipping pretty much mirror ebay's.

I stopped selling on ebay the day they started including shipping cost in the fee calculations, and haven't regretted it. Now I just laugh every time they stick another knife into their sellers.