[For Sale: IBM Model M Keyboards]

I'll take #7 or #8

[What's the latest Atari related thing(s) you've bought on ebay?]

Just a boring joystick, I seem to have lost a couple of them in my move 2 years ago or have accidentally thrown them away at some point (?!) and I got married in April so needed another joystick to lure the wife in to vintage gaming (eased her in with NES emulation). 

[Best Electronics - problem with ordering]

Two previous orders went without problems but this time I asked for about a dozen different items (with multiples of some) and was told to limit it to 3-4 items because of heavy demand at least until mid-Februar.

 

 

 

He will soup-nazi you if he thinks you are wasting his time, are going to resell, are trying to horde etc. If you tried to order 2 of something you might be on his bad list now. I ordered a restored 800xl off him some years back and a couple months later wanted a restored 2600 too and he acted like he didn't want to sell and like he suspected me of trying to make some flipping profit, I explained my mother had been talking about how she used to play my brother's 2600 and I was buying her one for her birthday (which was the truth) and BAM invoice.

[How Many Posts Per Level?]

 

Do 431 posts give you access to that beard level?

 

 

Haha that's only 18-20 months of growth in that photo.

[How Many Posts Per Level?]

Off-topic for the sub forum but neat anyway!!!

[Shielding in 800XL]

there really isn't much reason to do so. I do like to use the bottom shielding in my 1200XL with an Ultimate 1MB board, simply because otherwise the entire system feels a little less substantial than I'd like. By contrast, my 800XL (also with a U1MB) doesn't have any of the old shielding in it at all.

 

Your mileage may vary ...

 

Well, if you've any amateur radio operates in the area it is just common courtesy to replace the shielding.

[clear 800XL case? i didn't know...]

Need!

[Number of Atari 8 bit users in the given countries]

Get one of the podcast guys in here, they can share their download stats by country. Assume at LEAST that many users per country (obviously not all listeners will be users but not all users will be listeners).

[What do we have here?]

You're doing god's work!

[Been out of the loop for 6 months moving and stuff, did I miss anything?]

The good thing for most people is, the current tariff changes (while they are killing us at work and frustrating us while we rapidly adjust to hundreds of tariffs being force-formal now) are mostly just electronics, motors, connectors, cables etc. Bad thing is for those of us in this forum is, it's mostly just on electronics, motors, connectors, cables etc.

[Been out of the loop for 6 months moving and stuff, did I miss anything?]

ryanmercer stop pocketing all that cool Atari tech coming from foreign lands!

 

it is crazy that you can buy complete products and bags of parts ships to your door from China cheaper than mailing a letter to your neighbor in town or anywhere else for that matter....

 

Here's a funny story from my work history.

 

We can get a package literally halfway around the world in 12 hours from the origin facility to the customer... the air conditioner for our office at the hub 12 years ago broke in the middle of summer, to get a part (that would easily fit in a box) from Tennessee to Indianapolis it took SIX BUSINESS DAYS. We were above our sort facility at the time and it was reaching 115-116 in our office and our computers were randomly failing from the heat unless we kept yyyyyuge fans every few desks blowing air down the aisle. It still boggles my mind.

 

As far as the cheaper thing, you know why? Chinese shippers gaming the Universal Postal Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

[Ben Hecks latest portable A8 build]

Hnnnghhhh

[Been out of the loop for 6 months moving and stuff, did I miss anything?]

But there has been declared some economic/trade war between the US and many other countries -

 

Don't have to tell me, literally my industry haha (I clear international freight through customs for a living, hopefully for not much longer). It's why it has taken me 13 days to come back to this thread, it's been a nightmare at work and when I leave I just want to go home and vegetate.

[Been out of the loop for 6 months moving and stuff, did I miss anything?]

The first "customer-built" (*) 1088XEL machines have come to life from the workbenches and soldering irons of dedicated hobbyists.

 

(*) I.e., not built by project developers or beta testers.

 

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Yasssssssssssssssssss

[Been out of the loop for 6 months moving and stuff, did I miss anything?]

I've been moving and dealing with an industry test and stuff the past 6ish months so haven't really paid any attention to the forum, just the podcasts. Have I missed anything exciting in new hardware or software?

[ATARIMAX WEBSITE]

I haven't ordered in a couple of years but it took 2ish weeks IIRC.

[Getting Your Exercise]

If you think Wiisports gave u a workout, you guys should definately try out Rayman Raving Rabbids!

 

Get it just to play the "Orange juice stand game"

I know this thread is ancient, I mean hell I wasn't even on the forum back then and the thread is about me haha but what really killed me was Rampage. I'd go crazy trying to destroy buildings and it would leave me so sore, I got Rampage a couple weeks after that interview.

[Getting Your Exercise]

The Wall Street Journal is running a story about folks who've been getting quite a workout playing the Wii.

 

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116...ff_main_tff_top

 

 

 

How about you guys? Have you worked up a sweat playing the Wii?

 

 

True story. That's me hahaha. I was interviewed by Forbes after that too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLznUBgm8S4

[1088XEL Alternative Mother-Board Project]

Looking good!

[What to do with old boxes?]

I toss boxes for pretty much everything. I mean, chances are the box art is already on umpteen Atari sites. I'd probably high resolution scan them then throw them in the recycle.

[Modern day "tulip mania" with 1200XLs on eBay today]

To be fair there is a finite supply, perhaps someone just wanted them for future parts. I mean, I think I have a dozen 800xl's now and any time I have a little extra money to spend and see one for a reasonable price I buy it just to have another machine for parts in the future.

[Atari Sealed Obscure Games Valuations]

Sealed stuff fetches more price purely from faith/naive folks. . I'd absolutely never pay a premium for something sealed unless it's like a LEGO set where you can open the box and see the bags of elements still sealed in the custom LEGO bags.

[Atari Sealed Obscure Games Valuations]

You, and anyone buying, should assume nothing is ever factory sealed. Ever. Shrink wrap machines are stupid cheap and a few practice attempts will result in something perfect. The same goes for anything 'sealed' with a sticker. A few minutes with a heat gun and you've opened and closed it with no visible signs.

[Carina 1.0 BBS]

 

Well, although I'm a married person (thus, not a single person), I do still have my landline. I rarely use it these days, but meh, it's part of my DSL service and if power ever went out like when the entire midwest USA lost power some years back, I can still make calls with it.

 

--Tim

 

 

See you're lucky with DSL, people that have VoIP via something like AT&T Uverse can only use modems and the like that use tone dialing as pulse dialing doesn't work. Good thing is, most (if not all) atari modems allowed tone dialing I believe.

[Carina 1.0 BBS]

now that a lot of us get free long distance with our services..

 

I don't know a single person with a land line.