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    The only thing I really want to do is clean it up, I need to clean inside the cassette port any recommendation of cleaning products or stick to the basics? Dry Cotton swaps and some wipes for the exterior?

     

    Although I am not sure about the internals of the keyboard (yet), I have always used Caig DeoyIt D series to clean vintage terminals in electronics. And then to protect them from getting corroded (well corroded is a strong, more like oxidized) I follow it up with the Caig Sheild. There are a myriad of products, some for if you are working with gold contacts, etc. People here can tell you if this is a good route

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    Those scans seem to have come from my site.

     

    You can find the scans of the manuals and games at:

     

    http://www.beeslife.com/intvlibrary/index.htm

     

    Under MANUALS, you will see:

     

    - Keyboard Component Basic

    - Keyboard Component Console

    - Keyboard Component Software

     

    Under IMAGES, you will see:

     

    - Keyboard Component

    - Keyboard Component Game Boxes

    With any of those, was there an extra page? I see what I think is a Warranty card in my manual.

  4. Posted · Edited by Deprekate

     

     

    On a side note, you have a complete Beta MTG set?!?! Wow! Even the Power 9? Black Lotus! And dupes of them all in a complete Unlimited set! Do you even feel like sleeving them up and playing in a vintage tourney with black bordered power 9? Selling those could sure buy a lot of NES games: double digit times more dollar value what the keyboard is worth for the Beta alone :-o . And that doesn't even consider the big money cards in the other sets you have complete, my personal favorite of which being force of will.

     

    Yup, well my unlimited is pretty sparse, I don't remember if I have dupes of the power 9 in my UL set. Actually most of them are sleeved and in various decks, much like video games, there is no point in owning it if you dont play with it. Here was the last time I dragged some out for this killer Bazaar of Baghdad deck. It was essentially a guaranteed 3rd turn win.

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    Speaking of Force of Will. I still cannot believe how much they go for these days. I mean when I filled in my pre dark sets everything was rather pricey (ie the price wasnt trivial). But I remember being able to pick up of Will for about fifty cents, as they were only uncommons. Although it appears in the last year or so they have gone down (they used to be $100), prob reprinting.

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  5. Posted · Edited by Deprekate

    What exactly breaks on these? And why isn't there a way to fix them? I mean if I can reball a PS3 how can people not fix whatever IC breaks on these (i mean these are easy to replace, they arent even SMD)? If it is part of the tape drive, can't you scavenge working parts from a working normal tape drive and jerryrig it?

     

    Also is whatever breaks the fault of some IC? Like a cap going and shorting out a non replaceable microcontroller? That way if I ever turn it on, I cna make sure to replace/check the fault link in the chain.

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    Hi, just picked this up for $7.50. Wasn't really able to determine it's worth. Only a few pictures on image search, and nothing on ebay. They had another 2 at the thrift store, one with the same Lunar Lander sampler, and one with a different game sampler.

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    Hopefully you can recover them, there are tools out there to try and pull file off of damaged SD cards.

     

    http://www.howtogeek.com/232931/how-to-recover-images-off-a-corrupted-sd-card/

    Ya, I think it's a hardware failure, as it only shows up as a 30MB partition. I tried using R-Studio, but nothing. It might be best that I don't recover those photos, it's better not knowing I missed out on some crazy deal (there prob wasn't, the keyboard was a fluke)

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    I went back and bought the rest (well most, I about 3 few that were not rare and overpriced: one was atari video checkers that was like $12.50). Anyways YES they had Intellivision games at the beginning 2 months ago, but at full price, and they list things at whatever things go for on ebay. Which is why I didnt buy the games until now, as they had 50% off all the old tags.

     

    But hey I did pick up an INTV game today for only $3.45

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    So now I own 1/125 CIB and an Intellivision Keyboard. How would you rate my collection? ; )

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    Wow, that's an amazing find! Wonder what the history of that item is? Where has it been all these years, and why was it never opened?

    I believe the "thrift store" where I bought it from, buys storage lockers. It came in with a huge collection of other retro gaming stuff: a Vectrex, Atari with trac ball controllers, a hundred various games in boxes, and various other consoles and controllers in the boxes.. I took pictures of the cabinet the first day I came across it, but it appears my SD card died a day ago, I will see if I can get them back.

     

    So essentially some collector down in Southern California. The only items that weren't pre NES were an Atari Lynx in the box and a Dreamcast in a gamestop-like refurb box (I bought the Dreamcast since it was in better condition than mine).

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  12. Posted · Edited by Deprekate

    If you're going to get the books scanned, make sure it's done right:

     

    Regular flatbed scanner could bend the spine and damage the ancient glue.

    Good to know, but isn't there already scans of it around? I mean has nobody scanned the manual before?

     

     

    I deprecate you, Mrs Deprekate, for this incredible stroke of luck.
    Congrats!!! :)

     

    heh, glad you caught onto the play of words. deprekate is my handle for pretty much everything. And it suits me pretty well, both as the attitude and as the coding reference.

     

     

    Anyways as far as the hoax, in the other thread i posted pictures with the cardboard and foam protectory thing, which has probably never been seen before?

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    If it makes any difference, you probably won't actually ever play this. Software is tough to find and not really fun. This is a collector piece. The money from this could buy a lot of nice NES games. That said, you'll never find another one of these.

     

    If I every came across one, it would be a tough decision. Keep my glorious paperweight, or buy the remaining games I need to complete my CIB Intellivision collection...hmmm.

    The weird thing is I don't like to collect games. I already collect so many many things: MTG (I have full sets of beta-aliances), vintage Star Wars (full set of 92. I am missing Yak Face. plus boxes and boxes of vehicles), and a variety of other toys.

     

    Collecting the cartridges would be just too much, seeing how I go for all consoles.

     

    I just like the consoles, and use rom cards (not sure if that is frowned upon here).

  17. Posted · Edited by Deprekate

    Holy crap! Congrats on an awesome find! If you feel like making a bunch of money flipping it, I'd be interested. :) Where in the world did you find this and was there any software?

    There might have been software, but if there it got sold. They had a big lot of gaming stuff all in boxes most was priced equivalent to ebay, so they had like a Vectrex for $150 (or maybe it was $300), and Neo Geo, etc. It all slowly sold at normal prices. They still have a dozen or so various Atari/TI-99/Odyssey games in boxes and sealed in boxes. Nothing rare, all for about the same price as ebay. Though today (i got the keyboard yesterday) I went back and bought "The Quest For the Rings" in the box, only missing the time tile and one possesion token. It was $12.50

     

    I don't like sealed items, since I prefer paying less and getting to play with them. I was going to buy an atari with two trac ball controllers for $150, but i was waiting for it to go on sale. It sold before I could get it. I ended up with a Dreamcast and controller in a refurb box for $30.

     

    I don't know this escaped all the collectors who picked through the items (the lot came in about a month ago). It was either well hidden (it was kind of in a different case and down in the bottom hidden. Or They priced it, and never put it out, until the 50% the old tag sale.

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